One of Europe’s notable museums of art and design this month started detailing structural engineering, focusing on the work of Anglo-Danish Ove Arup (1895-1988), whose name survives through the firm he founded in 1946.

“We may not know it, but engineers organize the world we live in,” says Martin Roth, director of London’s 164-year-old Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). “Our lives are reliant on visible and invisible systems conceived, built, run or facilitated by the many disciplines of contemporary engineering.”

引用奥雅纳为“最伟大的工程师neer of the 20th century” the V&A’s curators highlight the engineer’s close collaboration with avant-garde architecture early in the last century.

Ove Arupbrought engineering and architecture closer together than ever before through his philosophy of “Total Design.”

伦敦动物园1934年企鹅池的细长，螺旋坡道的图像说明了建筑和工程的合并。Arup是具体设计专家，与建筑师Berthold Lubetkin合作，创建了现在高度珍贵的结构。

几年后，阿鲁普将他的大量技能转向了战争。展览绘制了他失败的尝试，以说服英国政府建造大型，宽敞，混凝土地下空气突袭避难所，而不是正式认可的换档结构。

阿鲁普（Arup）在1944年在诺曼底入侵期间使用盟军使用的巨大预制混凝土浮游桑树港时，更加成功。

What’s more, his reputation for innovative design went global in the 1960s when a team he led devised a way of rescuing the unbuildable sail-like shell roof Sydney Opera House in Australia.

With photographs, diagrams and the original wind tunnel model, the exhibition reveals the complexity of the Sydney project. Pioneering design included the early vacuum-tube Pegasus computer built by Ferranti Ltd. and on display at the exhibition.

阿鲁普built his firm on his principle of integrated design and his successors remained faithful to that philosophy. Exhibits including the skeletal Centre Pompidou gallery in Paris and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd. in Hong Kong reveal greater complexity than the Penguin Pool but the same mingling of disciplines.

Arup是V＆A工程展的明星，但他的支持演员也出现了。Felix Samely的手写计算使企鹅坡道成为可能。彼得·赖斯（Peter Rice），泰德·哈斯（Ted Happold）和其他合作者也在那里。

阿鲁普’s “vision, combining philosophy and engineering to create a holistic approach” is more relevant today than ever, notes Tristram Carfrae, the design firm’s deputy chairman. Being chosen by the V&A for its first engineering exhibition “demonstrates how Ove was a pioneer of his time,” he adds.

The London's museum exhibition, calledEngineering the World: Ove Arup and the Philosophy of Total Design, began on June 18 and will last through November 6.