Engineering Architecture: The Vision of Fazlur R. Khan

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The grace and articulate form of the Hancock Center was founded on a bold and exceptionally efficient structural system; the Sears Tower, groundbreaking in its potential for shaping architectural space, introduced Khan's bundled-tube concept for large-scale construction. His designs for long-span roof structures were similarly progressive. For the Hajj Terminal to the international airport Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Khan melded historical context with sophisticated technology to create a meaningful environment for travelers while advancing the field of tensile structure construction.".
 

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Formative Years
25
Graduate Work and Early Years at SOM
41
Structural Innovations in the Early 1960s
59
A New Era for HighRise Design The Framed Tube
85
The Trussed Tube John Hancock Center
105
An Expanded Design Vocabulary Variations on Structural Form
131
Chicago Picasso
133
The TubeinTube One Shell Plaza
141
Crisis in Bangladesh
259
Overseas Work Development in the Middle East
267
An Indigenous Form The Hajj Terminal
287
A University Campus for Makkah
315
The Trussed Tube in Concrete Onterie Center
339
Megastructures Chicago World Trade Center
357
Reflections on Fazlur Khan
375
Notes
382

Seismic Isolation Concept and the Belt Truss
163
The Composite System One Shell Square
185
Emergence of the Bundled Tube The Sears Tower
205
Architecture in Transition
235
Contemporary Structural Rationalism
257
Selected Bibliography and Works by Fazlur R Khan
397
Conversion Factors
407
Index
408
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Engineering Architecture: The Vision of Fazlur R. Khan
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Yasmin Sabina Khan, Fazlur Khan's daughter, has degrees in civil engineering and structural engineering/structural mechanics and has designed multistory buildings on both coasts.

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العنوانEngineering Architecture: The Vision of Fazlur R. Khan
المؤلفYasmin Sabina Khan
الإصدارمزود بصور توضيحية
الناشرW. W. Norton & Company, 2004
رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب)0393731073, 9780393731071
عدد الصفحات416 من الصفحات
  
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