Have you found an
"interesting" building or structure yet?
A few important reinforced concrete structures and buildings:
The architect Lebeus Woods
makes some observations in his
blog that are very much in line
with what I am saying in this course!
The work of Eugene
Freysinnet
- inventor of pre-stressing (application here), and post-tensioning, diagram), reference to the
construction of the Biodome
in
Montreal
(originally
Velodrome)
Boulingrin
Market
Hall 1927-29 Compare Boulingrin
with Halle
Freysinnet (1929) (plan, section). Boulingrin renovation
proposal view 1, view 2
The work of Felix
Candela, the repeated and creative use of the hyperbolic
paraboloid.
Comparison of the work
of Felix Candela and Eugene Freyssinet
Comparison of the work of
Felix Candela and Antonio Gaudi
Comparison of the work of
Eugene Freysinnet's Boulingrin Hall and Halle Freysinnet
The work of Eero Saarinen TWA
terminal
(1956-62), construction photos
and Dulles
Airport (Construction,
section,
interior, http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Dulles_Airport.html
), Kresge Auditorium
Comparison of the structure
of Dulles Airport and Portugal's Expo '98 pavilion in Lisbon.
Exam
Question 2009
Marina City Chicago; Article
by
Bertrand
Goldberg
Twisted
Torso Malmo by Calatrava- (replacement of Kockum's
Crane)
The Spire Chicago by Calatrava Building's
website
New
Yorker
article on the towers of Calatrava
Blog http://www.benandalice.com/2008/05/architecture-of-santiago-calatrava.html
Habitat 67 Montreal 1967 by Moshe Safdie Archive
website
Burj Khalifa, 2009, by S.O.M. Facts, floor plans
Frank Lloyd Wright's Illinois
Mile high tower compared to
Burj Khalifa
