Fitch: Curtain Wall
This structural innovation allowed the construction of non-load bearing walls
What is Steel Skeleton / Steel Frame Construction
A camp fire is an example of this mode/ type of solution.
Contemporary living conditions have been produced as a result of the extraction of this natural resource.
What is Petroleum?
The first skyscraper built with a curtain wall. Bonus for including the year.
What is Pietro Belluschi's Equitable Loan Building in Portland OR, 1948
A conservative structure/ response to the environment cannot help man/ woman do the following.
What is See in the dark, or Stay warm in sub-zero temps.
This type of building became a functional means to draw capital accross borders.
What is an Air Conditioned Building.
Lever House in NYC gets its Greenish appearence from this.
What is Tempered High R, Low E Glass
Hint: humidity.
What is Regenerative Mode?
Barber coins this term in conversation with other "-ocene's"
What is Comfortocene, which highlights how mechanical systems have infiltrated the prospects for humanity.
What is Radiant Temperature
Conservative Wall, of the Conservative Mode of environmental response, gets its name from this structure devised by a master-environmentalist.
The success of the ASHRAE merger can be attributed to these two things:
What is (1) low fuel cost to power systems, (2) universal standards set by ASHRAE as a result of new analytical/ measurement tools.
Considered "one of the most valuable advances in biological evolution"
Hint: ideally a building is able to achieve a similar state of existence.
What is Walter B. Cannon's critereon of Homeostasis
Technological advancement in the build environment is typically led by fields (building types) that are not commonly regarded as "Architecture." Name one or more of these "fields.
What is greenhouses, factories, transporation?
"Images of ______ help open up the climate to cultural inquiry and political mobilization"
What is Images of Accumulation.