France's most famous architectural structure is the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. The architect Gustave Eiffel designed the 985 foot iron symbol of Paris. It has a victorian structural expressionist style. It was built for the 1889 International Exhibition, which is the French celebration of the French Revolution. It is located by the river Seine on the Avenue Gustave Eiffel.
"...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.
"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.
No comments:
Post a Comment