Better Questions? Better Definition?
Dec 08, 2020
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2020-12-08 18:00:00
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Better Questions? Better Definition?
As a final session of our fall semester, Museum Director Carol Willis offers an overview of the themes explored in the series and proposes a set of characteristics to define “skyscraper” that includes 21st-century developments. She argues that looking backward from today makes clear that a standard definition that cites “steel skeleton” is woefully outdated and proposes some key characteristics that have defined the skyscraper typology across the past 150 years. The standard narrative of the bir
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