lecture-final-2004

A short overview of steel framed houses

First, as architects, before we talk structure, we should never forget that it is for people and people's activities that we design. (Drawing by Charles Eames)
We design physical structures around social ones!

Let's look at a very early steel frame building of about 1880:

Now look at this Japanese steelframing example
Now look at an early steel house begun in 1927: LIA: Look at this one in particular
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and one more website:

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Mies van der Rohe Tugendhat house 1930
"Minimisation of furnishing also incited the user to get to know his identity and project it into the space, which was intentionally not precisely defined. Thus the house was intended to be not only a perfectly functional living machine, but also a work of art placing considerable demands on the resident."