ARTH198 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, Nebraska State Capitol, Kurna
1 Feb 2017
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State capitol building imagined as a skyscraper. Power of new building type as a symbol of progress and modernity and a new way of life. Wanted a new tower in chicago for itself. Cage-like steel construction, sense of verticality, vertical thrust, getting cut away as it goes up. Evolution of the setback skyscraper: the metropolis of tomorrow: If you have a lot of tall buildings in narrow buildings next to each other you"ll wipe out the sun. If you want a taller building you need to set it back. Romance about men who built skyscrapers (native americans) Ground level banking hall- structure of building runs right through it. Starts arranging them as prismatic forms as they pass each other. Suggestions for how they might be inhabited. Steel has to be encased in something since not fireproof. Metal casing around fireproofing around steel beam. Re entrance corner, doubles and intensifies the corner. Real work is done by this angle (glazing)
