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 Do Structural Codes Stifle Creativity?
Author(s): (Imperial College, London, UK)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Conference: Creativity and Collaboration – Instilling Imagination and Innovation in Structural Design, Bath, United Kingdom, 19-20 April 2017
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Page(s): 37-38
Year: 2017
DOI: 10.2749/222137817821232504
Abstract:

It is an often heard contention: 'Structural Codes stifle creativity, they have become too prescriptive, we don't need them etc'. Is this true? Where is the evidence? Do these views have an objective and authoritative basis? Or are they part of the folk law, gaining a degree of credibility simply through repeated stating? What is the alternative?

Keywords:
design education Structural Codes
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