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A one-day International Architecture Symposium at Source 22 to provide the basis for an enticing dialogue between the disciplines of Architecture and Engineering. An initiative of the 'Year of the Built Environment 2004', QUT School of Design and Built Environment, School of Construction Management and Property, School of Civil Engineering, and s-Lab space laboratory for architectural design engineering research and design.

On balance, I believe that Expo 67's contributions to architectural design engineering design and engineering are going to be felt for generations to come. It was one of the most successful of fairs from this standpoint, with architects given an opportunity to flex their intellectual and creative muscles.

In the past few years, the academic and professional debate has focused primarily on form-making, the most obvious result of which has been those blobs, or funny shapes, that have proliferated in many architectural design engineering and urban design studios. But according to architectural design engineering theorist Antoine Picon: "What many designers have had in common is the belief that architectural design engineering form must express the intrinsic complexity of the invisible electronic networks and fields that surround it. Carlo Ratti and his colleagues and partners have taken a different course. Their mapping comes prior to any architectural design engineering endeavor. It reveals a level of complexity with which design should not even try to compete."