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Vol. - No.	Vol.7 - No.1
Date	Mar., 2018
Title	Dynamic Interrelationship between the Evolution of Structural Systems and Façade Design in Tall Buildings: From the Home Insurance Building in Chicago to the Present
Author	Kyoung Sun Moon
Institutions	Yale University School of Architecture, 180 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Abstract	The emergence of tall buildings in the late 19th century was possible by using new materials and separating the role of structures and that of non-structural walls from the traditional load-bearing walls that acted as both. The role of structures is more important in tall buildings than in any other building type due to the "premium for height". Among the walls freed from their structural roles, façades are of conspicuous importance as building identifiers, significant definers of building aesthetics, and environmental mediators. This paper studies dynamic interrelationship between the evolution of tall building structural systems and façade design, beginning from the early tall buildings of skeletal structures with primitive curtainwalls to the recent supertall buildings of various tubular and outrigger structures with more advanced contemporary curtainwalls.
Keyword	Tall buildings, Skeletal structures, Tubular structures, Diagrids, Outrigger structures, Curtainwall façades
PP.	PP.1~16
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