“Before a man can successfully plan a structure… he must study, from every possible angle, the ultimate purpose of his building. Attention must be directed to the basic structural concept before the mathematical process of calculation is undertaken.”

—  Eduardo Torroja

p, 125
Philosophy of Structures (1958)

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