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INGLÉS II - TRABAJO PRÁCTICO Nº 5

MODELO DE PARCIAL

1- Explique las ideas vinculadas por Yet en el primer párrafo.

2- ¿Cuál es el problema con el que deben lidiar por primera vez los constructores en
Chicago? ¿Cuáles son los factores que plantearon la necesidad de resolverlo y cuáles
posibilitaron la solución? ¿Qué ofrecieron los mismos?

3- ¿Cuáles son los tres tipos de construcción que evolucionaron casi simultáneamente?

4- Explique las ideas vinculadas por As en el segundo párrafo

5- Desarrolle la forma en que los arquitectos abordan los tres tipos de construcciones.

6- ¿Qué ha ocurrido con las innovaciones técnicas que los mismos generaron o
perfeccionaron? ¿Cuáles fueron los elementos característicos de relevancia?

HOTELS AND APARTMENTS - Carl W. Condit

1
The Chicago school developed the modern office building, for which it now enjoys a
world-wide reputation. Yet its equally influential though less spectacular work in the
creation of the contemporary hotel and apartment building has gone largely unnoticed.
The foremost architects of this type of structure –Theodore Starret and Clinton J.
Warren- were virtually unknown until Sigfried Giedion rediscovered them and
published some of their work in Space, Time and Architecture. Chicago builders were
the first to meet and deal directly with the problem of the multiple dwelling for a rapidly
expanding urban population. The fire of 1871 and the headlong growth of the city made
it necessary, and the elevator and the iron skeleton made it possible, just as these factors
offered the opportunity out of which came the modern office block.
2
The apartment house and hotel that evolved in Chicago were almost contemporary in
their growth with the new office building. As we saw in the case of the Great Northern
Hotel, the principles of construction and form developed by the Chicago architects were
applied to the multiple dwelling with the same imagination and success. The architects
made a direct functional attack on the apartment house, and the form that they
developed was again an organic technical-aesthetic synthesis. The homogeneity and
uniformity exhibited by the apartments and hotels is even more striking than in the case
of the office building. It was once more a matter of developing the most rational
standard -the generalizations without exceptions- and using it wherever conditions
indicated its propriety.
3
The technical innovations made or perfected by the Chicago architects are now so
common that, like all the great basic innovations on which our lives depend, they have
come to be regarded as natural things that have always existed. The important structural
features were, of course, the iron and steel frame, hollow-tile fireproofing, and the
curtain wall.

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