> The neatest think to do is go to a conference and present a
> session describing my mistakes.

One of the finest teachers of architectural structures was Neal .......? who
was a structural engineer, hired in 1960 by a quirk no one could explain,
into the Design staff at Cornell (at a time when the Design staff tended to
think itself very elite and above the structural engineer "technicians").
He later went to MIT and set up a hands-on structures lab for teaching
potential architectural engineers.   His classroom method was based on
investigating architectural structural failures (not of his own projects,
however) and studying natural
structural forms, such as bones and tree branches, in order to develop an
intuitive sense of where and how the forces of tension, compression and
flexure really played together.   His slides of concrete parking garages
sagging after a fire and bridges with temporary cantilevers broken off
during construction were great eye-catchers to get one's attention as well
as beautiful examples of the principles.

Did anyone come in contact with him, and does anyone recall his last name?
I am sorry to have forgotten it, because he was one great teacher.   His
professional claim to fame before becoming a teacher was the design of the
concrete shell roof structure for the US Post Office's first automated
sorting terminal, where they required vast uninterrupted open spaces.

Oh, yes, his name was Neal Mitchell.

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