Engineering architecture : the vision of Fazlur R. Khan / Yasmin Sabina Khan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khan, Yasmin Sabina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Khan, Fazlur R.

Civil engineers--Biography.

Civil engineers.

Structural engineering.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2004]

Contents:

Part I Structural Logic in Architecture 17

1. Formative Years 24

2. Graduate Work and Early Years at SOM 40

3. Structural Innovations in the Early 1960s 58

4. A New Era for High-Rise Design: The Framed Tube 84

5. The Trussed Tube: John Hancock Center 104

Part II An Expanded Design Vocabulary: Variations on Structural Form 131

Chicago Picasso 132

6. The Tube-in-Tube: One Shell Plaza 140

7. Seismic Isolation Concept and the Belt Truss 162

8. The Composite System: One Shell Square 184

9. Emergence of the Bundled Tube: The Sears Tower 204

10. Architecture in Transition 234

Part III Contemporary Structural Rationalism 257

Crisis in Bangladesh 258

11. Overseas Work: Development in the Middle East 266

12. An Indigenous Form: The Hajj Terminal 286

13. A University Campus for Makkah 314

14. The Trussed Tube in Concrete: Onterie Center 338

15. Megastructures: Chicago World Trade Center 356

16. Reflections on Fazlur Khan 374.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-407) and index.

ISBN:

0393731073

OCLC:

54865417