Skyscrapers first emerged in the late 19th century as fire-resistant constructions in Chicago and New York following major fires that destroyed downtown areas. The first true skyscraper is considered to be the Home Insurance Building built in Chicago in 1885. Developments in steel-frame construction allowed buildings to rise higher. New York particularly saw a surge in skyscraper construction in the early 20th century as the bedrock near the surface and grid street pattern facilitated low-cost foundations. Zoning laws introduced in 1916 established setbacks to allow more light and air. The modern skyscraper boom continued throughout the 20th century with ever-taller buildings constructed in major cities around the world.
Society has been building tall for centuries - but the tall buildings of the past look a lot different than buildings constructed today. Here, we'll discuss the history of skyscraper design.
Chicago Architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, and the Chicago FireGeorge Stoitzev
Website: www.windycitystyle.weebly.com Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7bni68yFG8c#t=0
Detailed information on Chicago Architecture designed in an intuitive way. Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan were the major focuses and I even made a video on Frank Lloyd Wright.
My website is www.uncoveringsuperman.com and www.Zodhi.com
Society has been building tall for centuries - but the tall buildings of the past look a lot different than buildings constructed today. Here, we'll discuss the history of skyscraper design.
Chicago Architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, and the Chicago FireGeorge Stoitzev
Website: www.windycitystyle.weebly.com Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7bni68yFG8c#t=0
Detailed information on Chicago Architecture designed in an intuitive way. Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan were the major focuses and I even made a video on Frank Lloyd Wright.
My website is www.uncoveringsuperman.com and www.Zodhi.com
First assignment set at university. A3 sketch booklet on inspirational buildings in a chosen architectural style (modernism & high-tech) and an inspirational architect (Sir Norman Foster).
Architecture After the Industrial Revolutionnichols4
From the Chrystal Palace in London and the Eiffel Tower in Paris to the sky scrapers of New York and Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water, we'll explore some foundational movements in architecture in the last 150 years.
The Crystal palace, an example of victorian architecture. Sir Joseph Paxton who was the architect of this and created a revolution bt made this structure with cast iron and glass. Though it doesn't exist anymore, for the cause of fire in 1936.
This building was served for exhibition purpose.More than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in its 990,000-square-foot (92,000 m2) exhibition space to display examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution.
High-tech architecture, also known as Late Modernism or Structural Expressionism, is an architectural style that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high-tech industry and technology into building design.
High-tech architecture appeared as a revamped modernism , an extension of those previous ideas helped by even more technological advances.
This category serves as a bridge between modernism and post-modernism ; there remain gray areas as to where one category ends and the other begins. In the 1980s, high-tech architecture became more difficult to distinguish from post-modern architecture. Some of its ideas were later absorbed into the style of Neo-Futurism art and architectural movement.
DECONSTRUCTIVISM
Started in the 1980’s
It views architecture in bits and pieces.
have no visual logic
Buildings may appear to be made up of abstract forms.
More than we say free flow of forms
Ideas were borrowed from the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida.
First assignment set at university. A3 sketch booklet on inspirational buildings in a chosen architectural style (modernism & high-tech) and an inspirational architect (Sir Norman Foster).
Architecture After the Industrial Revolutionnichols4
From the Chrystal Palace in London and the Eiffel Tower in Paris to the sky scrapers of New York and Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water, we'll explore some foundational movements in architecture in the last 150 years.
The Crystal palace, an example of victorian architecture. Sir Joseph Paxton who was the architect of this and created a revolution bt made this structure with cast iron and glass. Though it doesn't exist anymore, for the cause of fire in 1936.
This building was served for exhibition purpose.More than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in its 990,000-square-foot (92,000 m2) exhibition space to display examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution.
High-tech architecture, also known as Late Modernism or Structural Expressionism, is an architectural style that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high-tech industry and technology into building design.
High-tech architecture appeared as a revamped modernism , an extension of those previous ideas helped by even more technological advances.
This category serves as a bridge between modernism and post-modernism ; there remain gray areas as to where one category ends and the other begins. In the 1980s, high-tech architecture became more difficult to distinguish from post-modern architecture. Some of its ideas were later absorbed into the style of Neo-Futurism art and architectural movement.
DECONSTRUCTIVISM
Started in the 1980’s
It views architecture in bits and pieces.
have no visual logic
Buildings may appear to be made up of abstract forms.
More than we say free flow of forms
Ideas were borrowed from the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida.
Architectural Wonders - The History and Future of SkyscrapersKenny Slaught
Humans have been trying to touch the sky for all of recorded history, and the skyscrapers of today may only hint at the heights we’ll reach in the future.
Its about the integration of plants onto the skyscrapers which helps to reduce the temperature inside the building to a maximum extents and also helps to promote the greenery in the environment.
This is the final paper for our project in the Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations class. For this project, we had to apply different numerical schemes/algorithms to simulate a wave using the 2 dimensional advection equation. The goal of this project was to determine which numerical scheme was the most computationally stable or unstable, and to determine how this affected the simulation of a 2 dimensional wave.
Adams & Dearborn: 130 Years of Architecture HistoryDesigns by Joann
Pulled from one of my Chicago Architecture Foundation tours (I'm a docent) and adapted for Project #8 in Toastmasters' Competent Communicator manual. This speech, by the way, was the last one... moving onto next TM level.
Chicago History Presentation - Prof. Vince MichaelTom Tresser
This wonderful presentation was given by Prof. Vince Michael to the students in "The Art of Crossing the Street - Artist as Citizen" class at the School of the Art Institute.
12. NEW YORK
• GRID PATTERN – 7M X 30M
• NO DISPUTES
• Downtown Manhattan bedrock is
very close to the surface.
• Bedrock is stable.
• As a result, costs of digging and
laying foundation are relatively
low.
15. 1890: World Building Joseph Pulitzer's New York
World (Newspaper row, 26 stories, first building in
NYC to surpass 284’ spire of Trinity Church)
1902: Flatiron Building
1913: Woolworth Building
1915: 42-story Equitable Building.
1916: NYC Zoning Laws
24. 1916-WORLD WAR ONE
1916 zoning created ‘wedding cake’ style.
1920’s (“The Roaring Twenties”) saw a massive speculative and
building frenzy.
Result: Race to the heavens.
e.g. Chrysler vs. 40 Wall Street.
Empire State Building
Art Deco style.
Depression and WWII put ‘kybosh’ on skyscraper market.
