Architect-Engineer Relationships: Overlappings and Interactions

This paper, extrapolating from insights derived from earlier researches by the author dealing with the complementary roles of architects and engineers in the design process of two innovative complex nineteenth-century buildings, St. Paneras Station in London, and the Auditorium Building in Chicago, sets out to establish some parameters for more general discussion of the interactions of these two design professions. It poses questions dealing with the scope of profession in the design of buildings, and the skills and attitudes of the designers. It also looks at the conelation between the professional description of the designed as ‘architect’ or ‘engineer’, and the actual work carried out in the design process, individually or in collaboration.