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Tune in to Episode 25 of the PA Talks series with Jan Knippers, super genius structural engineer, head of the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart, and founder of Jan Knippers Ingenieure. Jan discussed about his career, his works, the importance of computational design in engineering, and his interest in innovative and resource-efficient structures created at the intersection of research and development and practice.
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