Jonathan Ochshorn
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Department of Architecture
Cornell University
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ARCH 463: Special Topics in Structures: The Tectonic Articulation of Structure
Course Outline, Spring 2001


week date topic reading1 assignment1

1 1/26 intro, tectonics

2 2/2 stress concentration, streamlining Bush, Anderson

3 2/9 articulation, connection, constraint: expression and meaning Ochshorn, Sandaker, Rice+Robertson

4 2/16 beams, columns: bending, buckling Mainstone, Nervi first project prelim review

5 2/23 funicular form: geometry Heyman, Allen first project due

6 3/2 frames, indeterminacy Moore, Seckler, Rowe

7 3/9 skin and glass Semper, Rice review #1, final project

8 3/16 timber and steel expression Gutdeutsh, other tbd

9 3/23 break

10 3/30 masonry expression Mark

11 4/6 reinforced concrete expression Billington review #2, final project

12 4/13 craft and visual thinking Abel, Ferguson

13 4/20 in-class review final project due

14 4/27 critique of tectonics Frampton

15 5/4 no class

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