Art/History

I intend to show how a style of architecture in the turn of the century and the use of a specific material “steel” helped shaped our nation both materialistic and visually. Most architectures design there work with very descriptive items or more than just one kind. However, in the turn of the century, I plan to show hoe steel was a driving force in the way we shaped our cities and country for years to come. These structures, whether it is a tall building, railroad, bridge or commercial space, represents a design of the times and the change of a more modern world. When we show the differences in this historic architecture, we are always comparing different buildings and structures to the era when they were built. Using steel to build these types of buildings we find that they all have a functional characteristic in common.

Andrew Carnegie was one of the great entrepreneurs of our times, and he was well versed in business, had the right connections and a government that had no structure in place to regulate our natural resource steel. I will show how Carnegie help shaped our nation and had the foresight to see Iron was going to be replaced by steel, so he became a steel man. He saw the need for bridges and railways that were needed to develop our country in booming manufacturing time. He was not just a man of “steel,” he was a world traveler and by doing this traveling was able to bring a style of architecture and foresight of need, and money, to the modern world.

My research will review the early years of Carnegie and his connections to Washington DC to show how this played a crucial role in the development of his steel factories and his genius way of paying his help on sliding scale wages. We have talked about the early years of Dadaism and how that era landed in New York and produced works from necessary nonsense. I will outline how Carnegie was relatively like this in his early years of thinking and how others did not understand until it was too late, like 1916 thru 1923 Dadaism years. I lay out how the culture dictated the use of this metal and how it shaped the dealings of Carnegie and the city lines of our nation.

Works Cited :

Macleod, John. "Carving Out a Nation; Andrew Carnegie: The King of Steel." The Herald, Aug 22, 1998, pp. 15. ProQuest, https://saintleo.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.saintleo.idm.oclc.org/docview/332523796?accountid=4870.

Stouffs, Rudi, and Tunçer Bige. “Typological Descriptions As Generative Guides for Historical Architecture.” Nexus Network Journal : Architecture and Mathematics, vol. 17, no. 3, 2015, pp. 785–805., doi:10.1007/s00004-015-0260-x.

Andrew Carnegie , Encyclopedia of World Biography