Jonathan Ochshorn - ARCH 366/666, Questions for Week 12

Jonathan Ochshorn
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Department of Architecture
Cornell University

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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, 4/7/03. Note that readings are available through the Cornell Library Course Reserve at http://catalog.library.cornell.edu/. Instructions for accessing readings online are located at http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/arch463/arch366sp03/read/online.html.

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: April 7, 2003

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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