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V. Building Type Analysis
V. Building Type Analysis
Pages 125-164
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Taylor is tile Director of the Department of Education and Research of the American Institute of Architects. He is also a representative of the ATA to the Building Research Institute and is a November of the Executive Co~n~nittee of the Builcling Research AcIvisory Board.
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Anshen ~ AZZen. He has been winning ATA Honor Awards with embarrassing frequency.
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about how a house should be built. Socrates, resorting to his usual question ancT answer methocT, asked, `'Should a house be a pleasant place to live in and a safe place to store one's belongings?
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Which materials are at hand with which to build depends upon how far we can reach, not only in space but also in tine. Advancing civilization negates available new uses of existing materials and existing materials in new uses.
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they are even more cautious and bent to current tradition than private insurance companies, if possible. The architect, the builder, has to conform to their ideas of what a dwelling should cost.
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No one asks whether it is appropriate to increase the cost of a house $1500, or approximate 10°/0 to pay the banker, but if you try to increase the quality; by the expenditure of a similar sum for masonry you are absolutely; sty~niecI. The reason T speak of money in adcTition to appearance and psychological and aesthetic gratifications is that, all rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, handsome, satisfying buildings cost more than others.
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Architects know that the proper way to use masonry veneers is to express the fact that it is a veneer. It is incorrect to use masonry veneer in imitation of solid masonry.
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the general disdainfuT ineptituc:le of the design of their structures. This extremely poor design is characterized by the most elen~entary kind of mistake.
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here today primarily, stone, brick and terra cotta finishes. The 46-story Penobscot Building, done in limestone, back in 1977, is characteristic of the type of structures that one wouIcT expect 135
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There were brick spancirels and metal spandrels usecT at the various story freights. There was also a Tot of very colorful PENOBSCOT BUILDING 136 BULL BUILDING terra cotta usecT where necessary.
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insulation. These panels, in turn, are set in stainless steel frames, both vertical ancT horizontal.
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Our picture of the outsicie cTining area of the Tllis is an eight-story building containing ap- Stevens T Mason Building illustrates tile livproxi~nately 750,000 square feet typical, flex- ing space nude available to the occupants of ible once space that you wouIcT expect to see the building.
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Mason Building is already constructed. In addition to that, there will be a 14-story office building, a ANGELL HALL' UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ._ _s ~: - By..
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the twenty-two acre lake which was created as a focal point for the Technical Center, you will see the very colorful yellows and reds and blues and tangerines and chartreuse bricks at the ends of these structures. .~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~..~.~.~ GNI TECHNICAL CF,~TTER DYNAMONIE,TER BUILDING Above is one of the dynamometer buildings at the General Motors Technical Center, one of the earlier buildings that were developed.
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ GENERAL MOTORS TECHNICAL CENTF,R GLAZED BRICK P.\NEES color. But the picture does illustrate tile difference in cti~nension, the sculptural quality and the irregularity of the brick the type of thing we were trying to get to contrast with tile harsh, mechanical pane} and glass exterior.
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There are many instances where masonry units provicle far superior materials for specific applications. This is why masonry was usecT in the Fecleral Reserve Bank building in Detroit and the Michigan State Capital clevelopn~ent at Lansing.
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~ feet tile greatest problem we leave in appl`;ing masonry is to recognize that we have cone of age in structures where our builclings are being framed in tile lightest possible manner and then being clad in tile lightest possible enclosure, compatible, of course, Fitly fireproofing problems and good weathering. We leave done many, many buildings in wl~icl~ masonry products leave been glee basic 143
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It makes a very delightful ancT simple way of facing a rough block wall, simply to apply a glazed tile set Title one of the patented compounds that holds that tile to tile wall, in lieu of tl~e good old mortar setting ~etl~ocI. Two great big problems carve into our sloop througl~ that installation the first of Alicia was that tile vapor pressure in that wall, else moisture that was entrained in it, particularly if it were a cinder block wall as a divider, wanted out, and it wanted out as soon as tl~e building took heat, and it did a great deal of co~npro~nising as far as the a(lllesive was concerned.
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It is not only goocT for the people who go there as patients ancT Visitors, but it is very- helpful to the people who work in a hospital to enjoy an environment which is quite cTifferent front the institutional hospital buiTcling that we saw spring up all over the country- before tile war. It seems to Nile that the general practice then was to enclose these buildings with brick or lin~estone ancT Allen subdivicle them Keith a glazecT procluct of some kind in orcler to get tile sanitation and ease of maintenance that hospitals IllUSt have.
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~ see no excuse for lining the walls, the corridor walls, in a patients' area, with ceramic product that shines with ever`; light that reflects frown it and bounces bacT; every noise that is emitted in that corridor. NVe do feel there is no substitute, gentlen~en, for a good grade of ceramic tile in an area which is subjected to the chemistry, the abuser the live steam, that a hospital operating room must endure.
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~ wouIc] like to talk in a very general way about large sheet masonry materials that we are using the marble, the Iin~estone, and granite.
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setting up thin facing materials couIc:l very well units as a skin n~ateriaT.
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He has inherited ~ lot of experience in school buildings. His firm, in association with sionaZ degree from Cornell.
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~ clon't know whetter this school building is properly n~asonr~; or not. but tl~e effect of tile view sloven below could be achieve Title any building material.
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This same attitude is an element in the design of most school buildings today. It is not stylistic reasons or fashion reasons that have caused us to turn our backs on previous structures; it is the need for the sense of flow from the limited space in which you sit to tile larger space in which you wish to tale part psychologically.
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Tile need to approach cl~iTclren in man; different ways rather tIlan the single-~nindecI, bookish way leas necessitated a broadening of tile tools of teaching, wl~icl~ in turn requires just plain space.
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This change of thinking, frown tile enclosed space to the larger, open, and more fluid appearing space, is, ~ believe, a response to people rather than structure. The quite comfortable suburb of Winnetta, IlI., choose to let this building shown below go ahead in tile cannon brick with which we nor~naliv face the back and sides of a cheap apartment buiTcling.
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Va. In this Builcling Research Institute Conference on Modern Masonry, you have heard authoritative statements on research in fire clay products, natural stone, n~arble, granite, the cavity, veneer and face-bonded walls, methods for their reinforcement, their thern~al performance, in-the-wall costs, and a variety of ideas on maintenance.
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these personal remarks. ~ believe one of the greatest unrealized ancT unexploited opportunities for tl~e builcTing inclustry to capture the public imagination ancT cTeliver to it a real aciclecT value in design ancT lower cost lies in an inclustry-wicle acloption of the system of nodular measure.
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Blickensderfer, Robert, Advisory Engineer-Bldg. Products, Arn~co Steel Corporation, 70 ~ Curtis Street, Middletown, Ohio Bock, Paul L., Eastern Sales Manager, Lime ~ Stone Division, \Varner Co., 1721 Arch Street, Philadelphia 3, Pa.
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l. Brayton, Trillion B., Division Sales Manager, Medusa Portland Cement Co., 3 010 Ridgewood Ave., Baltimore 15, Md.
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Grimm, Clayford T., Assistant Director of Engineering, Structural Clav Products Institute, 1 5 ~ 0-1 Sth St., N.W., ~Vashirigton, D
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McKnight, Jerry T., Vice President, Indiana Limestone Institute, Bedford, Ind. McNall, Sidney H., Chief Engineer, Structural Clay Products Institute, 15 ~ 0-1 Stl~ St., N.\V., NNiasl~in~ton, D
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Roosevelt Drive., Milwaul;ce 16, Anise. Platt, lances R., Regional Director, Region 4, Structural Clay Products Institute, 2556 Clear~iew Aloe., N.\V., Canton, Ohio Plimpton, F
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Stryker, Joe W., Executive Director, Structural Clav Products Institute, 1520-1 8th St., N.W., NVashington 6, D
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C Whitacre, Daniel C., Vice-Prcsident, NVhitacre-Grcer Co., Waynesburg, Ohio Whitlock, Douglas, General Counsel, Structural Clay Products Institute, Room 10~2, Shoreham Bldg., Washington, D
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