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...perception of the importance of residual stresses in welded components. And after that I got a name for being an expert in that field. I think there is an element of luck and being at the right place at the right time. I haven't looked back since then. So I, at that point, started to get involved in research projects at universities. I was overseeing and managing several...

...perceptions of what successful buildings should intrinsically represent. For example, look at the city gate in Figure 12. Nicole Schadewitz, 2009 Figure 12 Lisbon city gate Symmetrical design, where the two sides mirror each other, can be seen in many examples of consumer products. This is because consumers often favour objects that are symmetrical. For example, course...

...perception was challenged when an American professor called Temple Grandin published a book about her experience of autism (Grandin and Scariano, 1986). As a child in the 1950s, Temple’s delayed speech development and odd behaviour were attributed to brain damage. Her mother resisted attempts to have her institutionalised and hired a speech therapist. At school Temple...