The steeling of the undergraduate mind, or,

New Tools, New Temptations.Pieter Sijpkes

McGill UniversitySSEF annual joint engineers/architects meeting

Quebec City March 1 2014

Thomas Cole ‘The architect’s dream’ 1840

Architecture with neither architects nor engineers

Iron was very scarce

Cast iron development

Stone vs cast ironhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/launch_vt_iron_bridge.shtml

Reform Act Tower 1832 proposalCast Iron

Centennial Tower London 1874

One of the designs for the Paris 1889 exhibition won by Gustave Eiffel

Original design of the Eiffel Tower

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http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/tour-eiffel?projectId=historic-moments

Chicago Competition 1890

London Competition entries 1890

Eiffel-Shukhov comparisonShukhov’s tower would have been higher than Eiffel’s and weigh only half

as much

Haeckel vs. Tower designs

Bilbao: main structure, outriggers, skin

Statue of Liberty: main structure, outriggers, skin

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao resultedin a unit steel price for the 3,900tons of structural steel comparableto a standard steel framed buildingproject and was a factor in the projectopening on-time and within budget.Advances in the use of computersfor steel detailing and fabricationnow allow for the realization ofextremely complex projects whichperhaps ten years ago would havebeen deemed impossible. It can nowbe said that the versatility of steelhas been extended to new applicationsin geometrically free-formarchitecture.Hal Iyengar is a Retired Partner,

The Singer Tower Highrise:The steel frame

The Empire State building on fire

Redundancy is a good thing

The leaning tower of Cartagena

Up up and away..