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Thomas Cole ‘The architect’s dream’ 1840

“The steeling of the undergraduate mind” or, New Tools, New Temptations . Pieter Sijpkes School of Architecture McGill University SSEF annual joint engineers/architects meeting Quebec City March 1 2014 . Thomas Cole ‘The architect’s dream’ 1840. The Engineer’s dream,Thomas Hart Benton, 1931.

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Thomas Cole ‘The architect’s dream’ 1840

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  1. “The steeling of the undergraduate mind” or,New Tools, New Temptations.Pieter SijpkesSchool of ArchitectureMcGill UniversitySSEF annual joint engineers/architects meetingQuebec City March 1 2014

  2. Thomas Cole ‘The architect’s dream’ 1840

  3. The Engineer’s dream,Thomas Hart Benton, 1931

  4. Architecture with neither architects nor engineers

  5. Cram's Unrivaled Family Atlas of the World, Chicago IL. Lithograph color print.

  6. Iron was very scarce in all these buildings

  7. Cologne cathedral’s wrought iron roof 1850Crystal Palace Cast Iron prefabricated frame 1851

  8. The Eiffel tower among the ‘Old world’ buildings, and one of the competing designs for a 300 M tower to be executed in granite!

  9. Google wisdom:

  10. Cast iron development

  11. I

  12. Thomas Telford, single-span Thames bridge 1799

  13. Stone vs cast ironhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/launch_vt_iron_bridge.shtml

  14. Reform Act Tower 1832 proposalCast Iron

  15. Centennial Tower London 1874

  16. Original design of the Eiffel Tower

  17. file:///C:/Philo-2014/tower-lecture/The%20Project%20Gutenberg%20eBook%20of%20Elevator%20Systems%20of%20the%20Eiffel%20Tower,%201889,%20by%20Robert%20M.%20Vogel.htmfile:///C:/Philo-2014/tower-lecture/The%20Project%20Gutenberg%20eBook%20of%20Elevator%20Systems%20of%20the%20Eiffel%20Tower,%201889,%20by%20Robert%20M.%20Vogel.htm

  18. http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/tour-eiffel?projectId=historic-momentshttp://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/tour-eiffel?projectId=historic-moments

  19. Chicago Competition 1890

  20. London Competition entries 1890

  21. Watkin’s tower in London, abandoned.

  22. Haeckel vs. Tower designs

  23. Eiffel-Shukhov comparisonShukhov’s tower would have been higher than Eiffel’s and weigh only half as much.Only the lower radio communication tower was built.

  24. The Singer Tower High-rise:The steel frame

  25. Statue of Liberty 1886: main structure, outriggers, skin

  26. Bilbao: main structure, outriggers, skin

  27. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao resulted in a unit steel price for the 3,900 tons of structural steel comparable to a standard steel framed building project and was a factor in the project opening on-time and within budget. Advances in the use of computers for steel detailing and fabrication now allow for the realization of extremely complex projects which perhaps ten years ago would have been deemed impossible. It can now be said that the versatility of steel has been extended to new applications in geometrically free-form architecture. Hal Iyengar is a Retired Partner,

  28. Redundancy is a good thing

  29. The Empire State building on fire

  30. Redundancy is a good thing

  31. Corruption is a bad thingThe leaning tower of Cartagena

  32. Architect’s perspective view: no columns!

  33. Up up and away..

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