Thomas Cole ‘The architect’s dream’ 1840
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The steeling of the undergraduate mind, or,
New Tools, New Temptations.Pieter Sijpkes
McGill UniversitySSEF annual joint engineers/architects meeting
Quebec City March 1 2014
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Thomas Cole ‘The architect’s dream’ 1840
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Architecture with neither architects nor engineers
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Iron was very scarce
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Cast iron development
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Stone vs cast ironhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/launch_vt_iron_bridge.shtml
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Reform Act Tower 1832 proposalCast Iron
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Centennial Tower London 1874
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One of the designs for the Paris 1889 exhibition won by Gustave Eiffel
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Original design of the Eiffel Tower
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file:///C:/Philo-2014/tower-lecture/The%20Project%20Gutenberg%20eBook%20of%20Elevator%20Systems%20of%20the%20Eiffel%20Tower,%201889,%20by%20Robert%20M.%20Vogel.htm
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http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/tour-eiffel?projectId=historic-moments
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Chicago Competition 1890
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London Competition entries 1890
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Eiffel-Shukhov comparisonShukhov’s tower would have been higher than Eiffel’s and weigh only half as
much
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Haeckel vs. Tower designs
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Bilbao: main structure, outriggers, skin
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Statue of Liberty: main structure, outriggers, skin
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao resultedin a unit steel price for the 3,900tons of structural steel comparableto a standard steel framed buildingproject and was a factor in the projectopening on-time and within budget.Advances in the use of computersfor steel detailing and fabricationnow allow for the realization ofextremely complex projects whichperhaps ten years ago would havebeen deemed impossible. It can nowbe said that the versatility of steelhas been extended to new applicationsin geometrically free-formarchitecture.Hal Iyengar is a Retired Partner,
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The Singer Tower Highrise:The steel frame
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The Empire State building on fire
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Redundancy is a good thing
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The leaning tower of Cartagena
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Up up and away..
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