Número 36 · Julio 2016 ISSN 1851-7838 (Impresa)ISSN 1851 ...
The Late Nineteenth Century. The Crystal Palace, 1851.
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Transcript of The Late Nineteenth Century. The Crystal Palace, 1851.
1851 International Exhibition
•Joseph Paxton
•June 11, 1850-May 1, 1851
•1,851 feet by 400
•3300 cast iron columns
The rise of the Civil Engineer
• Using the science of statics (based upon Newton’s Laws of Motion) to measure and calculate forces of gravity and stress.
• “Civil” because addressing structures in civilian life.
• Beginning of separation of “architect” and “engineer”
The Skyscraper: The Chicago School
• The engineer: William Lebaron Jenney
• The architect: Louis Sullivan
Great Chicago Fire, 1871
• 17,450 buildings destroyed
• Four square miles of the downtown area in ruins
• Opportunity to build a “modern” city
• Population boom: 325,000in 1871; 1.5 million by 1893
Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
• Wage labor• Crowded cities• Cheap, shoddy goods• Dore: “Over London
By Rail” 1872