| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: San Francisco, California, United States | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1967-1971 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | Nervi, Pier Luigi | en_US |
| dc.creator | Belluschi, Pietro | en_US |
| dc.date | 1967-1971 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-18T17:40:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-07-18T17:40:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1967-1971 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 266471 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 3215 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/182525 | |
| dc.description | Interior, high altar with archbishop's seat; 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.medium | reinforced concrete; steel; glass | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | contemporary (1960 to present) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Structural Expressionist | en_US |
| dc.subject | Modern | en_US |
| dc.subject | Twentieth century | en_US |
| dc.subject | Expressionist | en_US |
| dc.title | Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A2-US-SF-CSMA-E09 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | American | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | cathedral | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | Pier Luigi Nervi (Italian architect, 1891-1979); Pietro Belluschi (American architect, 1899-1994); et al | en_US |
