ABSTRACT

The aluminum industry is launched. Firms like The Aluminum Company of America, ALCOA, contributes to develop its technology. The use of aluminum in Architecture increases a 45 percentage from 1952 to 1957. Shining examples of this, are the façade prefabricated panels for the Tishman Building in New York (1953), by the architects Roth & Sons. The façade of the

ABSTRACT: The deficit of material after the Second World War, leads to the search of light solutions, the use of new techniques and materials and the structural behaviour which allows the achievement of great spans: the simple structural behaviour. Simple tension and compression forces increase the output of the structural work. A greater structural output is achieved using less resistant material. Thus, together with the assembly concept, decisive in the constructive definition of the structural solutions will make possible the achievement of these great scales (Pevsner 1936).