The architect and power engineering

Architecture and engineering ultimately share the same ends and the same common principles. They appear more widely separated because the growth of modern technology has brought with it a wider field of knowledge, a greater division of labour and increasing specialisation of skills. One can identify large architectural projects such as housing estates, universities or new towns for which civil, structural and mechanical engineers are indispensable as consultants. Their advice modifies the basic design of the project, but it does not create it. Similarly one can find large engineering projects, such as bridges, motorways or power stations to which architects, landscape architects and industrial designers have contributed both integrally and in detail, but which they do not design.