ABPL90085 CULTURE OF BUILDING
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septaria cement nodule
Lewis, Architectura, p 75
early reinforcement
the Thuasné system of construction
Miles Lewis
construction drawing of a reinforced concrete
drainpipe, by Joseph Monier, 1868
MUAS145
Aqueduc de Fontainebleau, constructed by François Coignet, 1867
Eberhard Pelke, 'Presenting Construction History in Museums: Bridges in the German
Straßenmuseum Germersheim', in Santiago Huerta [ed], Proceedings of the First
the differentiation
of compression
and tension
Jury House, rue
des Nations
Nations,
Paris, by R N
Shaw 1878,
Shaw,
1878
built by W H
Lascelles
Andrew Saint,
Saint Richard
Norman Shaw (New
Haven [Connecticut]
1976),
), p 171
William Wilkinson's reinforced concrete system, from his patent of 1854
R J M Sutherland, 'Pioneer British Contributions to Structural Iron and Concrete: 1770-1855', in C E Peterson [ed],
Building Early America (Radnor [Philadelphia] 1976), p 115
Wilki
Wilkinson's
' system, d
detailil
Henry Cowan, Science and Building: Structural and Environmental Design
in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (New York, no date [1978]), p
33
empirical developments
William E
Ward house,
Port Chester,
Chester
NY, by Robert
Mook,
Mook
architect,
1871 6
1871-6
C W Condit, American
Building Art, the
Nineteenth Centuryy
(New York 1960), pl 60
expanded metal:
view
manufacturing
process
Some Particulars Concerning 'Expanded
Expanded
Metal', its Production ad Uses in FireProof and Other Building Construction, &c
(London 1897 [New York 1896]), p 7, fig 1
International Library of Technology, Stone
and Brick; Cementing Materials and
Mortar; Stone and Brick Masonry; Plain
Concrete; Reinforced Concrete;
Foundations; Retaining Walls; Culverts;
Tunnels; Dams; Introduction to
Construction Drawing [volume 34D]
(Scranton [Pennsylvania] 1922 [19061912]), §45, p 11
arched floor slab by Ernest L Ransome, in the Bourne & Wise
Wine Cellar, St Helena, California, by Percy & Hamilton, 1888-9
Condit, American Building Art, the Nineteenth Century, pl 61B
Leland Stanford Junior Museum, Stanford, California, E L Ransome, contractor, 1889
Condit, American Building Art, the Nineteenth Century, pl 12A
Alvord Lake Bridge, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco,
California, by E L Ransome, engineer, 1889
Condit, American Building Art, the Nineteenth Century, pl 114
WUNSCH & MELAN
the Emperor Bridge over the Miljacka at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on the
Wunsch system, 1897
Paul Christophe, Le Béton Armé et ses Applications (Librairie Polytechnique, Paris 1902), p 261
Lamington Bridge over the Mary River, Maryborough,
Queensland, by Alfred Brady, 1895-6
A W Buel & C S Hill, Reinforced Concrete Construction (2nd ed, London 1906 [1904]), p 209
Lamington Bridge, Queensland
Constructional Review, L,4 (November 1977)
Franklin Bridge, Forest Park, St Louis, Missouri, USA, 1898, section
Engineering Record, reproduced in C W Condit, American Building Art: the Nineteenth Century
(New York 1960),
1960) p 249
railway bridge, South Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, on the Melan system
N de Tedesco & B Forestier
Forestier, Manuel Théorique & Pratique du
Constructeur en Ciment Armé (Paris 1909), p 329
the Cottancin system
St-Jean-deSt
Jean de
Montmartre,
Paris, by
Anatole de
Baudot, 1894
Miles Lewis
St-Jean-deMontmartre: plan
& longitudinal
g
section
G J Edgell, 'The
Remarkable Structures of
Paul Cottancin', in Frank
Newby [ed], Early
Reinforced Concrete
[Studies in the History of
Civil Engineering, volume
XI]] (Aldershot
(
[Hampshire)
[
p
)
2001), p 179
St-Jean-de-Montmartre: interior & detail of vaulting
Miles Lewis
St-Jean-de-Montmartre: cross-section of a
column, using perforated bricks and steel wire
‘
Edgell, 'Paul Cottancin', p 180
d
development
l
off the
h the
h
Monier
M i system
t
Wayss, Das System Monier (1887)
title page & p 50, Monier pipes
Wayss Das System Monier (1887)
Wayss,
p 73, spannweite 0.80 – 3.00 m; p 105, Konstruktion der Querträger
the Koenen/Wayss
y analysis,
y , from Wayss,
y , Das System
y
Monier ((1888))
J W de Courcy, 'The Emergence of Reinforced Concrete, 1750-1910', in Frank Newby [ed], Early
Reinforced Concrete [Studies in the History of Civil Engineering, volume XI] (Aldershot [Hampshire)
2001), p 107
the Monier system, by Wayss & Freytag
M N Bussell, 'The Era of Proprietary Reinforcing Systems', in Frank
Newby [ed], Early Reinforced Concrete [Studies in the History of Civil
Engineering, volume XI] (Aldershot [Hampshire) 2001), p 207
Coignet & Hennebique
the Hennebique system as patented in the United Kingdom, 1897
Cowan, Science and Building, p 37
reinforced concrete techniques according to Hennebique
Grain Cleaning House, Co-Operative Wholesale Society Ltd,
Dunston on Tyne, by F E L Harris, 1901-2: demolished
Patricia Cusack, 'Agents of Change: Hennebique, Mouchel and Ferro-Concrete in
Britain, 1897-1908', in Newby, Early Reinforced Concrete,p 163
spinning mill at
Turcoing, France,
by Hennebique,
1895
Pevsner, Sources
P
S
off Modern
M d
Architecture, p 153
Hennebique’s
Hennebique
s
own house at
Bourg-lag
Reine, 1890s:
section
Giedion, Space, Time
and Architecture,, p
322
François Hennebique
house, Bourg-laReine,1904
C F Marsh, Reinforced Concrete
(London 1904), frontispiece;
Lewis, Architectura, p 77
reinforced
concrete stairway
on the
Hennebique
system at the
Franco-British
Exhibition, 1908
Jones, Cassell's
Reinforced
Concrete, p 365
Pont Neuf,
Ne f o
over
er the Vienne,
Vienne Chatellerault,
Chatellera lt b
by Hennebiq
Hennebique,
e 1899
H J Hopkins, A Span of Bridges: an Illustrated History (New York 1970), p 250
Risorgimento Bridge, Rome, by Hennebique, 1913
Jones, Cassell's Reinforced Concrete, p 292
expanded
p d d metal
t l
expanded metal used as lathing for plaster
J J Cosgrove [ed W S Lowndes], Fireproofing of Buildings(Scranton
[Pennsylvania] 1919), p 73
expanded metal, 1897
systems no 1 (Golding system)
system), 3 & 4
Expanded Metal Co Chicago, Expanded Metal and its uses in Fire-Proof
Construction (Eastern Expanded Metal Co, Boston 1896), pp 9, 13
upper surface of the
ceiling in the
Carnegie Library,
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Expanded
p
Metal Co,,
Expanded Metal, p 63
concrete and expanded metal floor under test at
Manchester, UK, 11 January 1897
Expanded Metal Co Limited, Some Particulars Concerning ‘Expanded Metal,’ its
production and uses in Fire-Proof and other Building Constructions, &c (Expanded
Metal Co Limited, London 1897), p 5
structural uses of expanded metal
expanded metal and concrete in sidewalks
lighthouse constructed of expanded metal and cement
Expanded Metal Co, Expanded Metal, p 13
the Kahn bar
Kahn bar, diagram, and used as reinforcement in a continuous beam
International Library of Technology, vol 34D, Stone and Brick, &c (Scranton [Pennsylvania] 1922
[1906-1912]), §45, pp 19, 15
Kahn bar reinforcement, isometric diagram
International Library of Technology, Stone &c, §45, p 15
mushroom
h
h
head
d
construction
warehouse
h
on
the Monier
system 1887
system,
Wayss,
y
Das System
y
Monier, p 75
Lindeke-Warner building, St Paul, Minnesota, by C A P Turner, 1908-9
C W Condit, American Building Art, the Twentieth Century (New York 1961), pl 74
a Turner slab being laid at the Larimer Street Bridge on Cherry Creek, Denver, USA
courtesy David Beauchamp
Lindeke-Warner building, slab reinforcement
Condit, American Building Art, the Twentieth Century, p 169
Turner's Australian Patent, 1906
no 7296/06 to C A P Turner, 7 November 1906
warehouse in Zurich by Maillart, 1910
Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture, p 449
Maillart’s system
as developed in
1908-10
Federal Grain
Storehouse,
Altdorf,
Altdorf
Switzerland, by
Maillart 1912:
Maillart,
interior views
Bill, Robert Maillart, pp
159 158
159,
Turner’s
and
Maillart’s
systems
t
compared
Bill, Robert
Maillart, p 154
expressionism
& futurism
Salle Royale
de la
Renommée,
Liège, by Paul
Jaspar, 1905
JJones, Cassell's
C
ll'
Reinforced
Concrete
Salle Royale de la Renommée, interior view
Marcus Binney, 'Art Nouveau in Brussells', Country Life, 28 March 1974, p 724
f
footbridge
over the Weisseritz at Cotta-Dresden
C
Jones, Cassell's Reinforced Concrete, p 292
water tower of the
Maggi Factory at
Singen,
Singen
Hohentwiel, by H
Steub, 1909
909
Jones, Cassell's
Reinforced Concrete,
p, 39
391
Tony Garnier
projected Central
Station for the
Industrial Linear
City, by Tony
Garnier, 1901..
Slaughterhouse
of La Mouche,
L
Lyons,
b
by
Garnier, 1911-27
MUAS S13,113
Pevsner Sources of
Pevsner,
Modern Architecture,
p 160
drawing
d
i ffor a
hydro-electric
weir by Antonio
weir,
Sant’ Elia, 1914
MUAS 13,191
13 191
Jahrhunderthalle [Centennial Hall], Breslau, Germany; now Hala
Ludowa [People’s
[People s Hall], Wroclaw, Poland, by Max Berg, 1913
Lewis, Architectura, p 78
Jahrhunderthalle : model
Miles Lewis
Centenary Hall [Jahrhunderthalle], Breslau
[Wroclaw], Poland, by Max Borg, 1913
Pevsner, Sources of Modern Architecture, pp 162, 163
Jahrhunderthalle
[Centennial Hall],
Breslau, Germany; now
Hala Lodowa [People’s
[People s
Hall], Wroclaw, Poland,
by Max Berg, 1913
Lewis, Architectura, p 79
Jahrhunderthalle visitors on site 2009
Jahrhunderthalle,
Miles Lewis
Jahrhunderthalle
new tie bolts
2009
Miles Lewis
f
functionalism
ti
li
Kelly & Jones Factory, Greensburg PA, by E L Ransome, 1903-4
Peter Collins, Concrete, the Vision of a new Architecture (London 1959), pl 12B
Ernest L Ransome's
Ransome s patent edge-beam
edge beam construction,
construction USA
USA, 1902
E L Ransome & Alexis Saurbrey, Reinforced Concrete Buildings (New York 1912), pl 12
25 bis Rue Franklin, Paris, by Auguste Perret, 1903: view & detail
MUAS 11,916; Diapofilm
25 bis Rue Franklin, plan
Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture, p 327
Garage, Rue de
Ponthieu, by
A
Auguste
t Perret,
P
t
1905
Diapofilm 5441 JH-1
Théatre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, by Auguste Perret, 1912
diagram of the reinforced concrete frame
Pevsner, Sources of Modern Architecture, p 154
Nôtre Dame de Raincy, by Auguste Perret, 1923
Diapofilm 5441 JH-8; MUAS 137
Nôtre Dame de Raincy: the east end
MUAS 3896
Nôtre
Dame de
Raincy:
interior
MUAS 11,918
Maison Savoye, Poissy, by Le Corbusier, 1929-30
Diapofilm S441 JH-7
th engineering
the
i
i
aesthetic
Tavanasa Bridge
over the Rhine,
Switzerland, by
Robert Maillart,,
1905, destroyed
1927
diagram of the
characteristic
form of Maillart’s
bridges
Max Bill, Robert
Maillart (Erlenbach
(ErlenbachZurich 1949), p 39.
Cowan, Science and
Building, p 55
Swandbach Bridge
Bridge, by Maillart
Maillart, 1933
Jeff Turnbull; MUAS11,871
Cement Hall, Swiss National Exhibition, Zurich, by Maillart, 1939, under construction
Stanford Anderson [ed], Eladio Dieste: Innovation in Structural Art (Princeton Architectural Press, New York 2004), p 100
hangars at
Orly Airport,
near Paris,
by Eugène
Freyssinet,
Freyssinet
1916-23
general view
& view during
construction
courtesy Jeff
Turnbull; Cowan,
Science and
Building, p 150
Cinema 'Augusteo', Naples, by P L Nervi, 1926-7
Jurgen Joedicke, The Works of Pier Luigi Nervi (London 1957), p 3
Grandstand of
the Municipal
Stadium,
Florence by P L
Florence,
Nervi, 19301932, and detail
of reinforcement.
Joedicke, Works of
Nervi, p 7-8
Grandstand at Zarzuela Racetrack, Madrid, by Eduardo Torroja, 1935
MUAS
hangar at Orvieto, Italy, by Nervi, 1936 (destroyed 1944)
Joedicke, Works of Nervi, p 31
reinforced
concrete
ship of 400
tonnes, by
Nervi:
erection of
full size
full-size
test model,
1942-3
Joedicke,
Works of
Nervi p 49
Nervi,
Exhibition
Palace,
T i b
Turin,
by
Nervi, 194950: interior of
the hall
Nervi,
N
i Rogers
R
&
Joedicke, Works
of Nervi, p 75
Ganter Bridge,
Switzerland,
by Christian
Menn, opened
1980
E L Newhouse [ed],
The Builders: Marvels
of Engineering
(National Geographic
Society, Washington
1992), p 73
Sydney Opera House, by Jorn Utzon, 1959-74
Miles Lewis