ARTH 1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ultimate Tensile Strength, Gothic Architecture, Decimus Burton
16 Apr 2018
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Creating new spaces with new materials, interest in new technology: trains, steam engines. Intermingling of different social classes in one space. People moving to the city for work, change in the economy. Space-time compression, world getting smaller as transportation and communication speed increases. 19th century: division between engineers and architects. England: home of the industrial revolution b/c access to coal, resulting in low wages and a high population, development of the steam engine, originally used to extract water from coal mines. Royal saltworks at art-et-senans, claude-nicolas ledoux 1775-1779. The belief that a better society can be created with a carefully made plan. Cells a(cid:396)ou(cid:374)d the outside, gua(cid:396)ds i(cid:374) the (cid:373)iddle towe(cid:396) acti(cid:374)g as the (cid:858)all seei(cid:374)g eye(cid:859) Trying to enforce the prisoners to discipline themselves. Designed to make sure all workers can be seen. Wrought iron: low carbon content, can be hammered into shape, higher compressive and tensile strength. Iron bridge, coalbrookedale, uk, abraham darby iii and thomas pritchard 1777-1781.
