Engineering Arch Cl

by Khan,Yasmin Sabina

• ISBN13: 9780393731071
• ISBN10: 0393731073
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Through detailed examination of projects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, this study of Khan's career provides insight into architectural and engineering practice.

Author Biography

Yasmin Sabina Khan has practiced structural engineering in San Francisco, Boston, and Cambridge and is licensed in Massachusetts, where she now lives. She remains attached to her family home in Chicago, where several of her father's designs are city icons

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(2)
Stanley Tigerman
Preface	9	(4)
Acknowledgments	13	(4)
PART I Structural Logic in Architecture	17	(114)
Introduction	18	(6)
Formative Years	24	(16)
Graduate Work and Early Years at SOM	40	(18)
Structural Innovations in the Early 1960s	58	(26)
A New Era for High-Rise Design: The Framed Tube	84	(20)
The Trussed Tube: John Hancock Center	104	(27)
PART II An Expanded Design Vocabulary: Variations on Structural Form	131	(126)
Chicago Picasso	132	(8)
The Tube-in-Tube: One Shell Plaza	140	(22)
Seismic Isolation Concept and the Belt Truss	162	(22)
The Composite System: One Shell Square	184	(20)
Emergence of the Bundled Tube: The Sears Tower	204	(30)
Architecture in Transition	234	(23)
PART III Contemporary Structural Rationalism	257	(125)
Crisis in Bangladesh	258	(8)
Overseas Work: Development in the Middle East	266	(20)
An Indigenous Form: The Hajj Terminal	286	(28)
A University Campus for Makkah	314	(24)
The Trussed Tube in Concrete: Onterie Center	338	(18)
Megastructures: Chicago World Trade Center	356	(18)
Reflections on Fazlur Khan	374	(8)
Notes	382	(15)
Selected Bibliography and Works	397	(10)
Fazlur R. Khan
Conversion Factors	407	(1)
Index	408