The Late Nineteenth Century. The Crystal Palace, 1851.

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The Late Nineteenth Century

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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

Interior of Houses of Parliament

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”

Pont-Neuf, Paris

Gustave Eiffel

• Garabit Viaduct: the truss

The Eiffel Tower

• 1889 World’s Fair, Paris

• 1000 feet high

Bessemer Process, 1860

The Skyscraper: The Chicago School

• The engineer: William Lebaron Jenney

• The architect: Louis Sullivan

Chicago in 1863

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

William LeBaron Jenney

• Home Insurance Building, 1883-85

Steel Frame

The Bird Cage Legend

Curtain Wall Construction

Louis Sullivan(1856-1924)

“Father of the Skyscraper”

• The Wainwright

• St. Louis

• 1890

The skyscraper (Tall office Building)

Carson Pirie Scott Department Store, 1899

Consequences of the Industrial Revolution

• Wage labor• Crowded cities• Cheap, shoddy goods• Dore: “Over London

By Rail” 1872

Victorian Interior

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

The Prairie House, c. 1900

• Thomas House, Oak Park, Chicago

• Ward Willitts House, 1900

Japanese Prints

The Robie House, 1906

Victorian Interior

Steel

Roman Brick

Gull-wing gutters

• “Prairie House,” 1910 for a German magazine