Eiffel Tower - Photos and Technical Details
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman - Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Architectural Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
Engineering Photo Competition History of Technology |
| Learning Resource Type: | Reference - Visuals |
| Media Type: | Image |
| Author(s): | GreatBuildings.com |
| Description: | From the Great Buildings" series, this website has great photos, 3D CAD simulation, technical details and related links on the Eiffel Tower and its architect, Gustave Eiffel. Links include a photo of the construction sequence and asorted videos. Built for the 1889 International Exhibition, Paris, the centenary celebration of the French Revolution. On the Av. Gustave Eiffel, by the river Seine. "...the tower was the greatest affront not only to the architecture of Paris, but also to the eye of the Parisian, for whom its structural logic and revolutionary aesthetic language were incomprehensible. "Essentially, the structure of the Eiffel Tower—which was a far-ranging extrapolation of Eiffel's spidery, wrought-iron bridge pylons—could not have been more simple: four immense, tapering, curved, lattice-girder piers that meet asymptotically. These piers rise from an immensely broad square base—125 meters on a side—and are laced together at two levels by connecting girders to form an integral unity of great stability..." — Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p485. |
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| Keywords: | Eiffel Tower, Gustave Eiffel, construction projects, architectural engineering |
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| Use of Resource: | Free software available to download 3D CAD model. |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Interactivity Level: | Medium |
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| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Eiffel_Tower.html |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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