ARCH 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Charles Percier, Cambridge Camden Society, Permanent Mold Casting
6 Oct 2015
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By 1850s iron became the ideal in which fabricated our daily life at every scale: through mass-produced decorative embellishments of apartment houses, commercial buildings, train. Iron had not been confined to garden or the working edge of cities: percier and fontaine; 1829, introduced skylights into the palais royal with their. Late addition to those shopping arcades by which light, pedestrian shoppers, and commercial capital. Daunting in size; 1851 feet (564 m) long in which encloses 18 acres: an enclosure free of internal walls. In merely 9 months, 6024 cast-iron columns and 1245 wrought iron girders were manufactured, delivered and assembled. Debated on how the nineteenth century could invent a style of its own by using the laws of history or of nature would serve as a guide. Unprecedented as building types such as train stations challenged architects to design buildings that could communicate functionally than just beauty. Architects grappled issues of architectural form and values in modern society.
