Should Architects and Structural Engineers Really be so Isolated?

Throughout Reyner Banham’s article entitled “Construction”, Banham continues to emphasize that it was structure, not materials such as concrete, that ultimately gave architects the ability to shift over to the Modern Movement. This idea struck me because in the eyes

Sculpture, Nature, and the Salginatobel Bridge

I will confess my bias before discussing specifics: I think Maillart’s designs, discussed at length in the Giedion reading, are absolutely brilliant. While the discussion about his transformation of the uses of concrete was interesting, I was mostly fixated on