7 Architecture Facts pt.35 | Liberty in NYC, SOM & Header



The Statue of Liberty is a copper sculpture in New York Harbor. It was a gift to the United States from France dedicated in 1886. The statue was meant to celebrate the hope in a future of liberty, democracy and freedom in the US and beyond; Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus, a school for modernism in Germany. The building he designed in Dessau was finished in 1926. Aesthetically it’s quintessential modernism—stripped down and bare—stucco, concrete, steel and glass; Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine and founded the Salk Institute in 1960. The complex was designed by Louis Kahn. The buildings are an aesthetic dichotomy of brutalist concrete form with soft wood infill panels; The Dulles international airport is an authoritative example of form conveying the idea of flight. In fact when it came to putting on an addition in the 90’s the original bay design was so elegant it was simply replicated directly onto the original building; The Empire State Building was designed by William F. Lamb and completed in 1931. The building is made of 200,000 cubic feet of limestone and granite. Builders used 10 million bricks and 60,000 tons of steel; The term header or lintel is used to describe a structural member over an opening like a window or door. This member transfers the weight of what’s above to either side of the opening and ultimately to the foundation below; The Burj Khalifa in Dubai was designed by Adrian Smith of Skidmore Owings and Merrill. It utilizes a structural system of bundled tubes which buttress each other as it climbs. The building serves as hotel, residence and corporate suites.

This is a video series about facts in architecture. The 15 second videos featured in the series are created by Doug and posted every day on his Instagram account @dougpatt.

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