A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
For this chapter, let us turn our attention towards the Great FireFire of ChicagoChicago of 1871, and the impact that I shall argue, it had on the buildings we see around the world. HerodotusHerodotus, Pliny, Ovid and Tacitus all wrote about a magical bird: the phoenix, which was said to end its own life by burning and would then be reborn out of the fire. The story displays aspects of symbolismSymbol, Symbolism of regeneration, resurrection and immortality (P. V. Aureli: The possibility of an absolute architecture. p. 34.); we will see something similar happening after many fires that destroyed large portions of any cityCity that has burned down in the past. P. V. Aureli, in his book The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, suggests that the idea of the cityCity should start with the limitsLimits, limitations of architectural form itself, and that “architecture must address the city, even when the city has no goal for architecture.” (Jean Chevalier ed. al: Penguin dictionary of symbolismSymbol, Symbolism. p. 752.) Within ChicagoChicago, a chaotic development of a city built on a gridGrid that was thrown over a stretch of marshland, the domino effect that resulted out of “The Great FireFire of ChicagoChicago” expressed both these issues: the limitsLimits, limitations of the architectural form were expanded rapidly horizontally along the gridGrid as well as vertically, and the resulting architecture of skyscrapers would define a new form of urban development. The fireFire had a significant influence on the built world as we see it today. A combination of factors and inventions, such as fireproofFire proof steel construction, the use of elevators, and air conditioningAir-conditioning would in their combination lead to the re-building of ChicagoChicago. The dynamics behind these technological drivers that initially were devised to rebuild a fast growing cityCity has today changed the face of architecture around the world. These innovations led to the creation of a Universal SpaceUniversal space, which takes the global as its total environment while bringing the various localities together into one overarching system.
For this chapter, let us turn our attention towards the Great FireFire of ChicagoChicago of 1871, and the impact that I shall argue, it had on the buildings we see around the world. HerodotusHerodotus, Pliny, Ovid and Tacitus all wrote about a magical bird: the phoenix, which was said to end its own life by burning and would then be reborn out of the fire. The story displays aspects of symbolismSymbol, Symbolism of regeneration, resurrection and immortality (P. V. Aureli: The possibility of an absolute architecture. p. 34.); we will see something similar happening after many fires that destroyed large portions of any cityCity that has burned down in the past. P. V. Aureli, in his book The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, suggests that the idea of the cityCity should start with the limitsLimits, limitations of architectural form itself, and that “architecture must address the city, even when the city has no goal for architecture.” (Jean Chevalier ed. al: Penguin dictionary of symbolismSymbol, Symbolism. p. 752.) Within ChicagoChicago, a chaotic development of a city built on a gridGrid that was thrown over a stretch of marshland, the domino effect that resulted out of “The Great FireFire of ChicagoChicago” expressed both these issues: the limitsLimits, limitations of the architectural form were expanded rapidly horizontally along the gridGrid as well as vertically, and the resulting architecture of skyscrapers would define a new form of urban development. The fireFire had a significant influence on the built world as we see it today. A combination of factors and inventions, such as fireproofFire proof steel construction, the use of elevators, and air conditioningAir-conditioning would in their combination lead to the re-building of ChicagoChicago. The dynamics behind these technological drivers that initially were devised to rebuild a fast growing cityCity has today changed the face of architecture around the world. These innovations led to the creation of a Universal SpaceUniversal space, which takes the global as its total environment while bringing the various localities together into one overarching system.
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Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
van der Linden, Martin (author)
2021-03-13
19 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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