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The steeling of the undergraduate mind, or, New Tools, New Temptations. Pieter Sijpkes McGill University SSEF annual joint engineers/architects meeting Quebec City March 1 2014 . Thomas Cole ‘The architect’s dream’ 1840. Architecture with neither architects nor engineers. Iron was very scarce. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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
Thomas Cole ‘The architect’s dream’ 1840
Architecture with neither architects nor engineers
Iron was very scarce
Cast iron development
Stone vs cast ironhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/launch_vt_iron_bridge.shtml
Reform Act Tower 1832 proposalCast Iron
Centennial Tower London 1874
One of the designs for the Paris 1889 exhibition won by Gustave Eiffel
Original design of the Eiffel Tower
file:///C:/Philo-2014/tower-lecture/The%20Project%20Gutenberg%20eBook%20of%20Elevator%20Systems%20of%20the%20Eiffel%20Tower,%201889,%20by%20Robert%20M.%20Vogel.htm
http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/tour-eiffel?projectId=historic-moments
Chicago Competition 1890
London Competition entries 1890
Eiffel-Shukhov comparisonShukhov’s tower would have been higher than Eiffel’s and weigh only half as
much
Haeckel vs. Tower designs
Bilbao: main structure, outriggers, skin
Statue of Liberty: main structure, outriggers, skin
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,
The Singer Tower Highrise:The steel frame
The Empire State building on fire
Redundancy is a good thing
The leaning tower of Cartagena
Up up and away..
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