image ARCH 366/666 The Tectonic Articulation of Structure
Reading: Fall 2004
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Questions for Week 12
Briefly answer each question (1-3 sentences should do in most cases). Please type (or print neatly) and submit at the end of class on the date due.
To find readings online:

1. Go to Cornell Library Catalog.

2. Click "Course Reserve."

3. Click on the drop-down menu at "course" to find ARCH 366 (students registered for ARCH 666 should use ARCH 366 to obtain readings). Then click "Search" to display available course readings.

Note: check course reading list or assignment handout to confirm which readings are required.

Select readings 12a (Note: reading 12a is available either as a poor-quality pdf version through the library course reserve, or directly as an html version at: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jo24/comments/steel.html.

Due: November 15, 2004

12a. Jonathan Ochshorn, "Steel in 20th-Century Architecture," Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture

1. What accounted for the "victory" of steel over previous forms of iron construction?

2. Eero Saarinen's 630-foot (190 m) high Gateway Arch (1965) in St. Louis is simultaneously skin and structure. Do you consider it to be a "tectonic" form?
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