Engineering Arch Cl

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

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

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

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