One of Europe’s notable museums of art and design this month started detailing structural engineering, focusing on the work of Anglo-Danish Ove Arup (1895-1988), whose name survives through the firm he founded in 1946.
“We may not know it, but engineers organize the world we live in,” says Martin Roth, director of London’s 164-year-old Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). “Our lives are reliant on visible and invisible systems conceived, built, run or facilitated by the many disciplines of contemporary engineering.”