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| Tacoma Building (Holabird & Roche) |
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| The first use of iron columns in the exterior of a skyscraper was the |
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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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Burnham & Root
Adler & Sullivan
Holabird & Roche |
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| List three major architectural firms of the Chicago School that were in practice from 1881-1891. |
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| The atrium skylight in the Masonic Temple was located at the ____ |
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| Shilito's Department Store (McLaughlin, 1877) |
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| The model for the design of the elevations of the First Leiter Building was |
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| Lightweight fireproofing system with hollow terracotta masonry |
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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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| corresponding aesthetics based on the construction technology technique/type/material |
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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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| The leading figure of the Chicago School was |
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a. vertical emphasis with structural columns
b. horizontal emphasis with rows of windows (usually with arches)
c. a cage structure |
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| List three conceptual ways to design the elevation of the skeletal-framed skyscraper based on rational factors: a,b,c |
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Root is 3D and massing or space oriented
Sullivan focuses on the 2D and surface |
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| Compare Root's exterior design approach to that of Sullivan's: |
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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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Monadnock Building
Masonic Temple Building |
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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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| The construction technique of the exterior of the Tacoma Building was first used in |
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a. hollow terracotta tiles as lighter masonry wall
b. replace brick masonry walls with iron frame exterior
c. replace heavy brick fireproofing with terracotta (around iron columns) |
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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: a,b,c |
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| The tallest building erected in Chicago during the First Chicago School was the |
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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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| The tallest atrium designed by Root was in the |
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| First Leiter Building, by William La Baron Jenney (1879) |
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| What building in Chicago was almost a direct copy of the Shilito's Store? Who was its architect? |
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| Tacoma Building, by Holabird & Roche (Holabird is architect, with Roche as partner) |
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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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a. wrought iron plates riveted together, which allowed for diagonal bracing
b. independent masonry walls |
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| What two differences were there in Buffington's patent that proves he was not influenced by the Home Insurance Building: a,b |
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| Sullivan's best-remembered phrase was: |
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