A Revolutionary Approach To Teaching Building Design

"Shahin Vassigh, an architect and structural engineer on the [State University of New York at Buffalo] faculty, has received international recognition over the past two years for her revolutionary approach to teaching structural analysis and building technology to architectural students—a notoriously difficult enterprise.

'The program we've developed at UB,' she says, 'uses an advanced digital multi-media 'electronic textbook' to help students learn and apply structural analysis and design in ways that are much more appropriate to the needs, capabilities and perspectives of architectural students.

'It allows students to see just what happens to various constituent members as the load travels through the entire structure. It will demonstrate visually ways in which various architects have solved specific structural problems in different buildings, bridges and other structures.' "

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