15. Skyscraper Flashcards
The first use of iron columns in the exterior of a skyscraper was the _______________.
Shillito’s Department Store
_______________ was the leading figure in the first Chicago School, who was responsible for the design of more skyscrapers than the rest of the school’s figures combined.
Root
List three major architectural firms of the Chicago School that were in practice from 1881-1891.
- Adler & Sullivan
- Burnham & Root
- Holabird & Roche
Draw a “Chicago window.”
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What was the primary reason for the lack of ornament in the Montauk and Monadnock Blocks?
Office buildings meant to be functional, not corporate headquarters with lots of money, would just get covered by Chicago grime anyway
The architect who was the first to be granted a U.S. patent for iron framing in skyscrapers was:
Buffington
The atrium skylight in the Masonic Temple was located at the ______________.
21st story, center of building, double loaded corridor
The model for the design of the elevations of the First Leiter Building was ______________.
Shillito’s Department Store
If Chicago cannot claim to have been the birthplace of the iron frame, what technical achievement central to the evolution of the skyscraper can it call its own?
Bringing iron back to exterior, developing lightweight fireproofing system
What does Larson credit Root with having pioneered in the design of the elevations of the Monadnock and Masonic Temple?
Monadnock: bearing wall
Masonic Temple: iron skeletal frame
Is Sullivan’s design of the Wainright Building’s elevations honest? Why?
No, unnecessary heavy corner piers, doesn’t express true structural integrity
The leading figure of the Chicago School was ______________.
Root
List three conceptual ways to design the elevation of a skeletal-framed skyscraper based on rational factors:
- Empasize “cage” of structure
- Vertical emphasis (columns)
- Horizontal emphasis (windows/floors)
What two skyscrapers represent Root’s ultimate achievement of using the building’s structural system as the primary basis for the design of a skyscraper’s elevation
- Monadnock
- Masonic Temple
The construction technique of the exterior of the Tacoma Building was first used in the _____________.
Home Insurance Building
The tallest atrium constructed in the 19th Century was in the ________________.
Masonic Temple
The tallest building erected in Chicago during the First Chicago School was the ________________.
Masonic Temple
Following his dictum “Form follows Function,” Sullivan designed all the exterior columns in the Wainwright Building as ________________ elements.
vertical
The tallest atrium designed by Root was in the __________________.
Masonic Temple
What building in Chicago was almost a direct copy of the Shillito’s Store? Who was its architect?
First Leiter Building, Jenney
The first exterior use of the Rookery atrium’s hung-masonry curtain wall was on the _____________. Who was its architect?
Tacoma Building, Holabird & Roche
What two differences were there in Buffington’s patent that proves he was not influenced by the Home Insurance Building:
- Wrought iron plates riveted together
- Buffington’s masonry independent
Sullivan’s best-remembered phrase was:
“Form follows function.”
Draw a section of a Phoenix column and describe how it was fabricated.
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List three conceptual ways to design the elevation of a skeletal-framed skyscraper based on rational factors:
- Empasize “cage” of structure
- Vertical emphasis (columns)
- Horizontal emphasis (windows/floors)
