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dc.coverage.spatialSite: San Francisco, California, United Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1967-1971 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorNervi, Pier Luigien_US
dc.creatorBelluschi, Pietroen_US
dc.date1967-1971en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-18T17:40:10Z
dc.date.available2016-07-18T17:40:10Z
dc.date.issued1967-1971en_US
dc.identifier266456en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3215en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/182510
dc.descriptionInterior, one of the four massive piers supporting the roof in the corner with glass curtain wall behind; circumference of 24 feet at narrowest point; The cathedral was designed by local architects John Michael Lee, Paul A. Ryan and Angus McSweeney, collaborating with internationally known architects Pier Luigi Nervi and Pietro Belluschi (at the time, the Dean of the School of Architecture at MIT.) Its saddle roof is composed of eight segments of hyperbolic paraboloids, in such a fashion that the bottom horizontal cross section of the roof is a square (the building is 255 ft. square) and the top cross section is a cross. In the interior, piers support the 19-story roof at each corner of the floor plan, each constructed to withstand ten million pounds of pressure. With a circumference of 24 feet at their narrowest points, the piers are embedded 90 feet down into the bedrock. Source: ArchDaily; http://www.archdaily.com/ (accessed 9/3/2015)en_US
dc.format.mediumreinforced concrete; steel; glassen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary (1960 to present)en_US
dc.subjectStructural Expressionisten_US
dc.subjectModernen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.subjectExpressionisten_US
dc.titleCathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumptionen_US
dc.title.alternativeCathedral of St. Mary of the Assumptionen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-US-SF-CSMA-C08en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypecathedralen_US
dc.contributor.displayPier Luigi Nervi (Italian architect, 1891-1979); Pietro Belluschi (American architect, 1899-1994); et alen_US


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