Frank Gehry’s droopy, wonderfully-weird Experience Music Project now nearing completion in Seattle is an experience in unconventional building techniques. He enabled the engineer to design 280 different, undulating steel ribs, without anyone writing down or calculating the geometry of a single one. And he’s inspired a technophobic building team to accomplish considerable engineering feats. “For high-flying architects, they are great to work with. You can’t say that about all architects,” says one contractor. – Engineering News-Record