Discussions on Structural Aesthetics with Reference Engineers of Cluj-Napoca

Abstract

Within the research we conducted on aesthetics in the field of civil engineering, it was also approached the method of direct discussions with reference professionals of Cluj-Napoca. At the suggestion of the PhD mentor, Mr. Prof. Dr. Eng. Ludovic Kopenetz, we interviewed eight engineers, almost all of them professors at TUCN: Ildikó Bucur-Horváth, Dorottya Makay, Pavel Alexa, Anton Ionescu, Zoltán Kiss, Eugen Panţel, Petru Rus and Bálint Szabó. The discussions were guided by 11 questions that sought to outline the vision of each specialist on the beautiful of structures and the way this one is generated. In the present paper the answers of the interviewed specialists are synthetically presented, while the full interviews are being published in the Revista Construcțiilor, starting in 2018. The various answers are the most valuable, as we could see from the specialists’ replies. In the same time, different or divergent opinions help the reader to shape up a rich framework with profound meanings on the subject of the structures’ aesthetics. At the end of the outcomes’ synthetic  resentation, several conclusions are presented, that round up our research.