Dynamics Duo Gives Forward Push to Giant Kinetic Structures
Self-anointed professional dreamer Cyril J. Silberman and grounded structural engineer Lawrence G. Griffis prove opposites can attract. They have become a duo of dynamic roofs—and walls and playing fields—in sports construction. In a decade, they have collaborated on a half-dozen projects in the U.S. and chased several dozen in places as far flung as China. In doing so, they have helped thrust kinetic stadium architecture forward.
“We started with simple horizontal motion, then got brave going with mild slopes and now the slopes are getting steeper,” says Griffis, senior principal in the Austin office of Walter P Moore.