Hanif Kara!!

let me add some explination - Hanif of AKT has does some great work with Zaha and FOA

also Guy Nordensen

"stargineer" - I love the term.

Nex up - anyone know any HVAC Starsultants.

george schlaich and werner sobek are pretty famous...

schlaich, still going strong i'd say (stargineer still)

oups, you beat me to it...hadn't updated the page :)

pedretti/passera

peter rice
juerg conzett
Mutsuro Sasaki
bollinger & grohmann
eiffel
nervi
felix candela
robert maillart
frei otto
werner sobek

Fazlur Khan

well, in that case if we're grabbing from the history book as well :)

brunel
gaudi
leonardo

Che' Wall

You can add Nervi and Heinz Isler to the list as well.
Trying to find contemporary names however, seems more difficult (outside of those already mentioned).

it's easy for structural folks to chase glory - so what about the building systems folks?

hey, try to post links, not just names...

Candela and Gaudi were architects, not engineers.

Calatrava has both careers, so he's both a starchitect and a stargineer... a starchitengineer!

Guy Nordenson is a star, as j-turn said above.

But I'm not enjoying the term stargineer. vado, can you come up with something better? All I've got is Enginista.

Enginesta implies a certain savior fair that I don't associate with most engineers. I await vado's attempt!

engineerius
celengineer
luminengineer

starginectus

lumineer

You're right, tk.

I like celengineer. Or maybe celebrineer? Or celebrigineer?

strockstaral engineer

LOL, dammson!

extrodineer
visioneer
visiongineer
enginspire

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was pretty decent...



Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born on 9 April 1806 in Portsmouth. His father Mark was a French engineer who had fled France during the Revolution. Brunel was educated both in England and in France.

When he returned to England he went to work for his father. Brunel's first notable achievement was the part he played with his father in planning the Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping, completed in 1843. In 1831 Brunel's designs won the competition for the Clifton Suspension Bridge across the River Avon. Construction began the same year but it was not completed until 1864.

The work for which Brunel is probably best remembered is his construction of a network of tunnels, bridges and viaducts for the Great Western Railway. In 1833, he was appointed their chief engineer and work began on the line that linked London to Bristol. Impressive achievements during its construction included the viaducts at Hanwell and Chippenham, the Maidenhead Bridge, the Box Tunnel and Bristol Temple Meads Station. Brunel is noted for introducing the broad gauge in place of the standard gauge on this line. While working on the line from Swindon to Gloucester and South Wales he devised the combination of tubular, suspension and truss bridge to cross the Wye at Chepstow. This design was further improved in his famous bridge over the Tamar at Saltash near Plymouth.

As well as bridges, tunnels and railways, Brunel was responsible for the design of several famous ships. The 'Great Western', launched in 1837, was the first steamship to engage in transatlantic service. The 'Great Britain', launched in 1843, was the world's first iron-hulled, screw propeller-driven, steam-powered passenger liner. The 'Great Eastern', launched in 1859, was designed in cooperation with John Scott Russell, and was by far the biggest ship ever built up to that time, but was not commercially successful.

Brunel was also responsible for the redesign and construction of many of Britain's major docks, including Bristol, Monkwearmouth, Cardiff and Milford Haven.

Patrick Bellew - Atelier Ten; Environmental Services Engineer extraordinaire

Neil Thomas - Atelier One; structural engineer

Anil Hara - VDM; specialist in high-rise structures

Andy Davids - Hyder; specialist in high-rise structures

Andy Watts - newtecnic; facade engineering, author of several books on facades and structural engineering

archineer? he has to be an architect at heart if hes a great engineer

i like celenigneer

candela was as much structural engineer as architect. a la that hack calatrava.

the only candela structure i've seen is the Valencia Oceanografic, ironically next to three-in a row abortion plopped down by calatrava.

wasnt FLW an engineer too then? with the mushroom columns?

wait, fallingwater!!!

For systems engineers transsolar makes european architects look good.

spruce, good call.

transsolar does a lot of work w/ foster and allman sattler wappner
if you want to see some of the details, go here

anyone have experience w/ radiance or Computational Fluid Dynamics?

makes me want to become an engineer...

ive read about them, good enough?

HVAC - Rober Meierhans Zurich, Switzerland, he does alot of stuff for Peter Zumthor.

I've been working with Werner Sobek's offices in NY and Stuttgardt, and I've enjoyed working with them. Many of their engineers are also trained as architects.
I understand Werner had been teaching at Harvard, and is teaching at IIT this year.