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Iron Frame
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Undergraduate 2
04/23/2009

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The first use of iron columns in the exterior of a skyscraper was the
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Shillito Department Store
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__________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
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root
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List three major architectural firms of the Chicago School that were in practice from 1881-1891
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-Adler and Sullivan
-Burnham and Root
-Holabird and Roche
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Draw a "Chicago window."
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What was the primary reason for the lack of ornament in the Montauk and Monadnock Blocks?
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The architect who was the first to be granted a U.S. patent for iron framing in skyscrapers was
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Leroy Buffington
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The atrium skylight in the Masonic Temple was located at the
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21st story in the center of the building; double loaded corridor
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The model for the design of the elevations of the First Leiter Building was
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The Shilito’s Department Store in Cincinnati
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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?
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Bringing Iron back to the exterior, developing a lightweight fireproofing system.
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What does Larson credit Root with having pioneered in the design of the elevations of the Monadnock and Masonic Temple?
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-Monadnock: bearing wall
-Masonic Temple: iron skeletal frame
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Is Sullivan's design of the Wainright Building's elevations honest? Why?
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No. heavy corner piers. Iron columns don’t express true structure integrity.
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The leading figure of the Chicago School was
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root
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List three conceptual ways to design the elevation of a skeletal-framed skyscraper based on rational factors:
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-emphasis of the cage
-emphasis of the layers/floors
-emphasis of verticality of skyscraper.
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Compare Root's exterior design approach to that of Sullivan's:
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Root has a more 3D appearance to it. Sullivan is more concerned with the elevation, and 2D surface
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The material that allowed Sullivan to translate his interior stenciling to the exterior of a building was
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terra cotta
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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?
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Monadnock and the Masonic Temple
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Sketch the plan concept of the Odd Fellow's Tower ( Doesn’t get built
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9 square plan
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The construction technique of the exterior of the Tacoma Building was first used in the
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home insurance building
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List three ways in which weight was reduced in the construction of Chicago skyscrapers which enabled them to be built taller on the city's relatively weak soil:
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a. the replacement of masonry floor arches with flat-arched, hollow tile floors
b. the replacement of masonry bearing walls with iron skeleton framing upon which was supported the brick skin
c. the replacement of brick in the exterior with lightweight architectural terra cotta. Chicago was responsible for the American development of this material, which, in essence, had all the ornamental advantages of the cast iron front of the 1850s, with the extra bonus of being truly
fireproof.
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The tallest atrium constructed in the 19th Century was in the
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Masonic Temple
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List two major differences in the conceptual design of the exteriors of the Masonic Temple and the
Wainwright Building:
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-Masonic Temple: To create the highest vertically oriented structure
-Wainwright Building: simple unbroken structure, and able to go back and give it the emphaisis he wanted.
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The tallest building erected in Chicago during the First Chicago School was the
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Masonic Temple
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Following his dictum "Form follows Function," Sullivan designed all the exterior columns in the Wainwright
Building as ___________ elements.
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vertical
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The first skyscraper to be constructed with an exterior wall of uniformly-dimensioned brick which was supported at each floor was the
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Tacoma Building
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The tallest atrium designed by Root was in the
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Masonic Temple
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What building in Chicago was almost a direct copy of the Shillito's Store?
Who was its architect?
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First Leiter Building, Jenny
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The first exterior use of the Rookery atrium's hung-masonry curtain wall was on the__________
Who was its architect?
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Tacoma Building, Holabird and Roche
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What two differences were there in Buffington's patent that proves he was not influenced by the Home Insurance Building
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Jenny had cast iron columns, Buffington had wrot iron plates riveted together
Buffingtons masonry was completely independent, jennys was not
Jenny had no rivioted connections between iron pieces
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Sullivan's best-remembered phrase was
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form follows function
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