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Thomas Cole ‘The architect’s dream’ 1840

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.

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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 SijpkesMcGill UniversitySSEF annual joint engineers/architects meetingQuebec City March 1 2014

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

  3. Architecture with neither architects nor engineers

  4. Iron was very scarce

  5. Cast iron development

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

  7. Reform Act Tower 1832 proposalCast Iron

  8. Centennial Tower London 1874

  9. One of the designs for the Paris 1889 exhibition won by Gustave Eiffel

  10. Original design of the Eiffel Tower

  11. 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

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

  13. Chicago Competition 1890

  14. London Competition entries 1890

  15. Eiffel-ShukhovcomparisonShukhov’s tower would have been higher than Eiffel’s and weigh only half as much

  16. Haeckel vs. Tower designs

  17. Bilbao: main structure, outriggers, skin

  18. Statue of Liberty: main structure, outriggers, skin

  19. 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,

  20. The Singer Tower Highrise:The steel frame

  21. The Empire State building on fire

  22. Redundancy is a good thing

  23. The leaning tower of Cartagena

  24. Up up and away..

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