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Summaries Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper Leslie, Thomas, Saranya Panchaseelan, Shawn Barron, and Paolo Orlando. The Windowless Building of the Future (Contemporarily) horrific descriptions by Howard Constable...
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Summaries Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper This article provides great context on how materiality and scientific research on controlling indoor temperature and conditions lead to many choices that did not...
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Summaries “Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians by Thomas Leslie, Saranya Panchaseelan, Shawn Barron, and Paolo Orlando In the beginning, the buildings were...
Space: More Complex Than Ever
Summaries Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper. A lot of thought has been into buildings and their exteriors. Windows within buildings has become something of a norm when looking around at buildings that surround...
Space is Shaped by Lived Experiences
Space In the 1890s, "space" became a significant concept in architecture. Over time, its meaning has changed considerably and is still widely debated. Space has different meanings depending on the context and is complex and challenging to define, especially when...
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'Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper' written by Thomas Leslie, et. al. As building technology evolved the methods of construction and climate control to create comfortable spaces changed the form approach to...
Capital Tower, RSP Architects Planners & Engineers, 2000
Leslie, Thomas, Saranya Panchaseelan, Shawn Barron, and Paolo Orlando. 2018. “Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 77 (1): 77–96. 20s building depend on...
The White U House and Multiple Conceptions of Space at Once
SUMMARIES Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper The Historically Invisible Prudential Building Chicago's Prudential building (1955) ignored as a major development in Chicago by Architectural Forum's 1958 coverage on...
Yet another trinity: Material advances, form-driven office buildings, and the indefinable nature of space
Summary of "Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper In this piece, the authors explore the technological advancements starting around the 1930s that enabled new designs for office spaces in tall building, and...
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Summaries Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper The article Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper covers issues of skyscrapers and styles in post war times. This...
Practical Space, Abstraction of Space, and Everything In Between
Adam Martin Reading Summaries "Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper" by Thomas Leslie, et al. This article tracks the developments of artificial lighting, air conditioning, and glass technologies over the course of...
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Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper. While architects have always had and (will likely always have) grand and forward thinking ideas, the reality of the built environment is that the economics of materials and...
Space: Not the Cool Version with Comets (But Maybe?)
Author: Alex S. Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper by Thomas Leslie, Saranya Panchaseelan, Shawn Barron, and Paolo Orlando Through the history of several office towers, a view of the evolution of highly glazed...
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Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper. By Thomas Leslie, Saranya Panchaseelan, Shawn Barron, Paolo Orlando Buildings were originally built dependent on natural light and ventilation, usually creating a shallow...
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Summaries: Deep Space, Thin Walls The inland steel building was remarked to be the revival of Chicago’s business district, meanwhile only a handful of blocks away the new tallest building in Chicago, the Prudential Building, was getting very little press. This was...
Week 3 Reading Responses – Technology and Space
By Sam Hewitt Reading 1: Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper Summary This piece focuses mainly on the develop of several industrial material technologies and how they shaped the modern building movements including...