# Skyscrapers

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Category: Architecture
Slides: 31
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:17:26.980Z
Tags: architecture, skyscrapers

## Summary

A skyscraper is not a tall building. It is a tall building made possible by three specific 19th-century inventions — the steel frame, the safety elevator, and the central HVAC system — that together permitted occupied space to rise hundreds of metres above the ground. Key sections include: Sky scrapers.; Opening Up.; Chapter I What counts.; Chapter II The Chicago school.; Chapter III "Form follows function."; Chapter IV New York learns.; Chapter V The Empire State.; Chapter VI The Chrysler.; Chapter VII The postwar tower.; Chapter VIII The tube structure..

## Slide Outline

1. Sky scrapers.
2. Opening Up.
3. Chapter I What counts.
4. Chapter II The Chicago school.
5. Chapter III "Form follows function."
6. Chapter IV New York learns.
7. Chapter V The Empire State.
8. Chapter VI The Chrysler.
9. Chapter VII The postwar tower.
10. Chapter VIII The tube structure.
11. Chapter IX The World Trade Center.
12. Chapter X The Asian shift.
13. Chapter XI The Burj Khalifa.
14. Chapter XII The pencil tower.
15. Chapter XIII The Chinese supertall boom.
16. Chapter XIV The engineering, in detail.
17. Chapter XV The climate question.
18. Chapter XVI Why build them?
19. Chapter XVII The residential supertall.
20. Chapter XVIII The world's skyline cities.
21. Chapter XIX Working at altitude.
22. Chapter XX How they fail.
23. Chapter XXI The supertall practices.
24. Chapter XXII The shelf.
25. Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
26. Chapter XXIV The pilgrimage.
27. Chapter XXV What's coming.
28. Chapter XXVI The case for and against.
29. Chapter XXVII How to read one.
30. Chapter XXVIII The next century.
31. The end of the deck.

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