ARCH 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: William Le Baron Jenney, Great Chicago Fire, Home Insurance Building
2 Apr 2019
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Lecture 23: the tall buildings and the chicago school. Situation at beginning of last quarter of 19th century. 4/2/19: new materials (iron, glass), new technologies, rapid pace of the, october 8, 1871, the great chicago fire industrialization, elisha otis" safety elevator 1854, after the fire . William le baron jenney: chicago establishment architect. William le baron jenney: home insurance building: chicago, il 1883-1885, william le baron jenney studied at the ecole centrale des arts et. Manufactures in paris: established architectural practice in chicago, included daniel burnham, Gravity and masonry: the rule for masonry wall thickness, required a 12 inch thick wall plus an additional 4 inches of thickness for every story. Daniel burnham & john root: monadnock building: chicago, il 1890-1891, seen as precursor of modern architecture, office building, 16 stories tall, masonry bearing walls, thickness of walls made it expensive to build.
