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SUMMARY:Transformational Infrastructure  - Martin Knight BA(Hons) Dip Arch
  FRIBA FCIHT FIET FRSA\, IABSE Fellow IStructE Companion
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CONTACT:Karen Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:Martin Knight is one of the leading UK architects specialising
  in the design of bridges and transport infrastructure.  His career has in
 cluded periods spent on building sites and in engineering as well as archi
 tectural practices\, and his approach to design and construction has alway
 s been informed by the practical application of artistic principles\, bala
 ncing aesthetics with engineering and visual logic.\n \nMartin founded Kni
 ght Architects in 2006 and the twenty-strong studio is now the leading UK 
 architectural practice specialising in bridge design.  Active worldwide\, 
 Knight Architects has completed more than thirty bridges and has won sever
 al high-profile international design competitions\, including the €90m K
 ruunusillat bridge in Helsinki\, Finland.  Among many project-specific awa
 rds\, the practice was named Specialist Consultant of the Year in the NCE/
 ACE Consultants of the Year Awards 2015 and BD Infrastructure Architect of
  the Year 2017.\n\nWherever we are in the world\, we associate bridges wit
 h a sense of place and this distinctiveness is reassuring to people and ex
 plains the broad popular appeal of bridge design. Whether it is about impr
 oving connectivity\, generating civic pride\, or creating a focal point th
 at brings increased footfall\, bridges' added value and reinforcement iden
 tity. The transformational transport infrastructure of past eras\, exempli
 fied by the works or brilliant engineers like Brunel and Eiffel\, is a pow
 erful reminder that time passes quickly yet quality endures. As we conside
 r the design of new bridges and transport infrastructure\, how do we keep 
 these values in mind as well as that of our predecessors? \n
LOCATION: Cambridge University Engineering Department\, LT6
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