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Through detailed examination of projects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, this study of Khan's career provides insight into architectural and engineering practice.

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• Foreword(p. 7)
• Preface(p. 9)
• Acknowledgments(p. 13)
• Part I Structural Logic in Architecture(p. 17)
• Introduction(p. 18)
• 1. Formative Years(p. 24)
• 2. Graduate Work and Early Years at SOM(p. 40)
• 3. Structural Innovations in the Early 1960s(p. 58)
• 4. A New Era for High-Rise Design: The Framed Tube(p. 84)
• 5. The Trussed Tube: John Hancock Center(p. 104)
• Part II An Expanded Design Vocabulary: Variations on Structural Form(p. 131)
• Chicago Picasso(p. 132)
• 6. The Tube-in-Tube: One Shell Plaza(p. 140)
• 7. Seismic Isolation Concept and the Belt Truss(p. 162)
• 8. The Composite System: One Shell Square(p. 184)
• 9. Emergence of the Bundled Tube: The Sears Tower(p. 204)
• 10. Architecture in Transition(p. 234)
• Part III Contemporary Structural Rationalism(p. 257)
• Crisis in Bangladesh(p. 258)
• 11. Overseas Work: Development in the Middle East(p. 266)
• 12. An Indigenous Form: The Hajj Terminal(p. 286)
• 13. A University Campus for Makkah(p. 314)
• 14. The Trussed Tube in Concrete: Onterie Center(p. 338)
• 15. Megastructures: Chicago World Trade Center(p. 356)
• 16. Reflections on Fazlur Khan(p. 374)
• Notes(p. 382)
• Selected Bibliography and Works by Fazlur R. Khan(p. 397)
• Conversion Factors(p. 407)
• Index(p. 408)

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CHOICE Review

"Kahn's legacy of structural innovation and design collaboration was made complete by his passionate immersion in life." With that theme in Engineering Architecture, the author--Kahn's daughter, an architect herself--effectively describes her father's impact on late 20th-century construction while weaving a biography (focused more on his professional life) around it. Kahn was clearly a pioneer in engineering: he introduced framed and trussed tube construction and their variations into architecture, thus allowing for taller structures while keeping construction costs low. In three parts, Kahn covers in depth and in technical detail her father's early professional years and the state of construction in the 1960s, prior to the development of tube construction. Part 2 discusses innovative variations on the tubular theme, such as tube-in-tube and bundled tubes. Part 3 closes with Kahn's expansion into the Middle East and his contribution to advances in fabric tensile structure technology. The text is well written and illustrated with black-and-white photographs of architecture, construction drawings, and details, as well as with personal photos to remind the reader the book is also a biography. It is an excellent companion to Sara E. Wermiel's Fireproof Building (CH, Dec'00, 38-2181) on 19th-century construction. There are footnotes, a bibliography, and an index. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduates through professionals; two-year technical program students. L. B. Sickels-Taves Eastern Michigan University

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Yasmin Sabina Khan has practiced structural engineering in San Francisco, Boston, and Cambridge and is licensed in Massachusetts, where she now lives. She remains attached to her family home in Chicago, where several of her father's designs are city icons