Past Programs (page 8)

WORLD VIEW: Designing Global Supertalls

James von Klemperer, Scott Duncan, Brian Lee, Robert Whitlock, Karl Fender, Adrian Smith, Fred W. Clarke, William F. Baker, Peter Weismantle, Robert Sinn, Mark Sarkisian, Dennis Poon, Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Carol Willis

The Structure of Skyscrapers in America 1871-1900: Their History and Preservation

Donald Friedman

Better Questions? Better Definition?

Rewriting Skyscraper History: Looking Back from the 21st Century

Andrew S. Dolkart, Gail Fenske, Donald Friedman, Lee Gray, Kathryn Holliday, Thomas Leslie, A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, Carol Willis

An Alternate History of the American Skyscraper: Joseph M. Wilson of Philadelphia

George E. Thomas

Skyscraper Labor and the Places of Labor Protest

Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

THE TALL (NOT)OFFICE BUILDING: Hotels

A. K. Sandoval-Strausz

THE TALL (NOT)OFFICE BUILDING: Skyscraper Lofts

Andrew S. Dolkart

Tudor City: Manhattan’s Historic Residential Enclave

Lawrence R. Samuel

Chicago Telephone Company building complex, begun 1888 with additions through 1926.

Tall and Tethered: Telephone Buildings in the City

Kathryn Holliday, Carol Willis

The Singer Building in the Lower Manhattan skyline. Photo taken in 1908 by A. Loeffler, Tompkinsville, N.Y.

Business Buildings: Landmark Skyscrapers in New York

Gail Fenske, Carol Willis

Digital model of structural analysis of the Tacoma Building, Chicago, Thomas Leslie.

Brick, Iron, and Steel: Material Matters in Chicago Skyscrapers, 1870–1890

How Masonry Construction Transitioned to Steel, 1870s-1890s

Donald Friedman, Carol Willis

Cover of Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling, by Richard Haw. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Engineering America: John Roebling’s Brooklyn Bridge

Cover image of the book "From Ascending Rooms to Express Elevators: A History of the Passenger Elevator in the 19th Century" by Lee E. Gray. Elevator World Inc, 2002.

Elevator Office Buildings, New York and Chicago from the 1870s

Lee Gray, Carol Willis

Santa Fe Elevator, Damen and the Chicago River. Courtesy of Thomas Leslie.

Chicago’s Other Skyscrapers: Grain Elevators and the City, 1838-1957

Thomas Leslie, Carol Willis

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