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	Fazlur Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fazlur Rahman Khan (Bangla: ফজলুর রহমান খান Fozlur Rôhman Khan) (April 3, 1929 - March 27, 1982), born in Dhaka, Bengal (now in Bangladesh), was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer.
		Khan's central innovation in construction was the idea of the "tube" and "bundled tube" structural systems for tall buildings.
		Fazlur Khan's personal papers are held by the Ryerson and Burnham Archives at The Art Institute of Chicago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fazlur_Khan (682 words)

	Parmer Award Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fazlur Khan was a pragmatic visionary: the series of progressive ideas that he brought forth for efficient high-rise construction in the 1960s and '70s were validated in his own work, notably his efficient designs for Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center and 110-story Sears Tower (the tallest building in the world for over 20 years).
		Filled with both ambition and optimism, and equipped with solid training in structural engineering, Fazlur Khan was undeterred by the mindset and the technological difficulties that hindered tall building design.
		Fazlur Khan's earliest contributions to the field — developing the shear wall frame interaction system, the framed-tube structure, and the tube-in-tube structure led to significant improvement in structural efficiency: they made the construction of tall buildings economically feasible.
	www.seaoi.org /iframe_award_parmer_bios_khan.htm (794 words)

	Commentary
		Khan selected the University of Illinois for pursuing graduate studies, Professor Ali writes: “Fazlur R. Khan went to University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1952 to pursue graduate studies in structural engineering.
		Khan’s co-adviser for graduate studies, Narbey Khachaturian had this to recall: “He (Khan) was a universal man, a man who would look at all aspects --- social, architectural, aesthetic, you name it – the entire universe.
		Professor Ali reveals that Dr. Khan was aware of the fact that his success was not solely due to his own genius and expertise, but also due to the help and collaboration of his associates, fellow architects and engineers.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Commentary/2006/March06/10/03.HTM (1377 words)

	Gerald Barksdale
		Fazlur Khan might just be the most award-winning, most learned, and most respected engineer of modern design.
		Just as the world population was about to burst at the seams, Khan enters the engineering profession and soon becomes its savior.
		Fazlur Khan, though led to a career of engineering, he was as much a designer and a visionary as any of the greats of architecture.
	www.auburn.edu /~barksgd/fazlurkhanwriting.htm (665 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 596 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fazlur Rahman Khan was one of the greatest structural engineers of the twentieth century.
		Regarding Dr. Khan's contributions for designing building in seismic zones, the author writes: "A further innovation by Khan, and something that is not as well known, is his original concept of dissipating energy as the lower storey of buildings in seismic zones.
		Ahmed S. Khan is a senior Professor in the EET department at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois, is the author of The Telecommunications Fact Book and the co-author of Technology and Society: A Bridge to the 21st Century.
	www.thedailystar.net /2006/01/31/d601311502109.htm (1496 words)

	Fazlur Rahman Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In step with the abounding vitality of the time, structural engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929 —; 1982) ushered in a renaissance in skyscraper construction during the second half of the 20th century.
		Fazlur Khan was a pragmatic visionary: the series of progressive ideas that he brought forth for efficient
		Fazlur Khan was always clear about the purpose of architecture.
	www.fazlurrkhan.com (219 words)

	NP Architecture/Design Books
		"Fazlur R. Khan is one of the most influential structural engineers of the 20th century… his daughter has written an account of his achievements and laced his creative timeline with descriptions of his theories and practices."
		Khan's daughter both understands and honors his work, and it would be difficult to find a better book about this master of modern strctures."
		Yasmin Sabina Khan, Fazlur Khan's daughter, has degrees in civil engineering and structural engineering/structural mechanics and has designed multistory buildings on both coasts.
	www.wwnorton.com /npb/nparch/731073.html (269 words)

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	Forefront Spring 2006
		It is a story that spans two continents and two generations, the tribute of an American-born daughter to her Bangladeshi father, Fazlur Khan, whose move to Chicago in the 1950s would forever change the field of structural design.
		He was drawn to elegant structural systems attractive enough to be displayed in a building’s architecture—like the diagonal exterior struts of the Hancock Center or the dramatic tents and cable supports of the Hajj Terminal—all of which he designed without the help of the powerful computer algorithms available today.
		Khan approached this challenge with a bold new structure, a tubular form for the building’s entire perimeter.
	www.coe.berkeley.edu /forefront/spring2006/khan.html (912 words)

	Fazlur Rahman Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fazlur Khan's earliest contributions to the field — developing the shear wall frame interaction system, the framed-tube structure, and the tube-in-tube structure —
		This structural system was first implemented in 1964 in the construction of the DeWitt-Chestnut Apartments in Chicago, a 43-story reinforced concrete tower designed by Fazlur Khan and his colleagues at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM).
		For the immense roof of the Hajj Terminal of the new airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — intended to shelter 80,000 pilgrims at a time, waiting for up to 36 hours — he searched for a coherent scheme that was both efficient and honored the spirit of the Hajj pilgrimage.
	www.scholarsbangladesh.com /innovation.php (956 words)

	Evolution of Concrete Skyscrapers
		Fazlur Khan revolutionized the design of tall buildings in both steel and concrete when he proposed his well-known system charts for tall buildings [6,7].
		Khan [11] predicted in as early as 1972 that concrete is the material of the future for tall buildings.
		Khan, F. and Sbarounis, J. A., "Interaction of Shear Walls and Frames in Concrete Structures under Lateral Loads," Journal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 90 (ST3), June 1964.
	www.ejse.org /Archives/Fulltext/200101/01/20010101.htm (6499 words)

	Amazon.com: "Fazlur Khan": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fazlur Khan, shortly before his death in 1982.
		One of these two structures is a tower in Chicago, designed by Fazlur Khan (1930-1982), and the other is a bridge in Switzerland, designed by Christian Menn (b.
		The collaborative reinforced-concrete tube design by SOM's Myron Goldsmith, Bruce Graham, and Fazlur Khan was chosen to preserve Daley Plaza's material and structural identity, and the following year it received a Citation of Merit...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Fazlur-Khan (499 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He or she will be expected to bring innovative ideas to the classroom, studio and research venues, and to make creative contributions while working with an interdisciplinary focus at the intersection of structural engineering and architecture.
		The Khan Chair faculty member is expected to be active in teaching & research in both the Civil and Environmental Engineering department and the Art & Architecture department.
		Applications for this position should be emailed to KhanChair@lehigh.edu Candidates unable to submit email applications should send their application by mail to the Chair of the Fazlur Rahman Khan Chair faculty Search Committee, Lehigh University, PL 200, 19 Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA, 18015-3084.
	www.lehigh.edu /~incee/khan.html (547 words)

	Engology, Professional Links, Professional/Chartered Engineering, Women in Engineering, Engineering Profession, High ...
		"Yasmin Sabina Khan's intellectual biography of her father is a thoroughly engaging and fascinating exposition of his integration of structural engineering and architecture into some of the most significant and influential tall buildings of the twentieth century.
		Fazlur R. Khan, one of the greatest structural engineers in the 20th century, which is at once technically sound and of great general interest.
		Being a structural engineer herself, Yasmin Khan brings technical clarity to explanations of [his] works as well as many of her father's numerous new ideas that became major completed structures.
	www.engology.com /engpg8links.htm (641 words)

	Graham Foundation Abstract Database
		Mireille Roddier's study of the history and architecture of the laundry houses of rural France, The Architecture of the French Lavoirs, published in 2003, was funded by the Graham Foundation.
		Khan and Graham's work, though not dogmatically modern, exemplified Modern Architecture's rational approach to design, while advancing its ambitions of clarity of form and articulation of structure.
		Her account of Khan's professional life will be based upon research among primary sources, including SOM project files and Khan's personal notebooks, and will be published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2004.
	www.grahamfoundation.org /abstract/grantDetail.asp?abstractNo=02.025 (268 words)

	Recent Faculty Publications
		Fazlur Khan was arguably the greatest architectural engineer of the twentieth century.
		Khan's efforts were not limited to structural engineering; they also played an important role in the form and architecture of the buildings he worked on.
		This, the first published book on the life and work of Fazlur Khan, stands as a powerful testament to this revolutionary mind -- and to the technological advances it engendered.
	www.arch.uiuc.edu /portfolio/facultypubs (1925 words)

	Khan Sculpture Saga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By 1987 over $20,000 had been raised; and SEAOI member Jaime Moreno was able to obtain the services of renowned Spanish artist Carlos Marinas to design and fabricate a large bas-relief made of stainless steel and bronze.
		The sculpture featured a bust of Dr. Khan set alongside a representation of Chicago's skyline, which includes many of the buildings designed by him.
		Now, perhaps the name Fazlur Khan will be more clearly remembered as another giant of architecture and engineering," said Gapp.
	www.seaoi.org /iframe_news_khan_saga.htm (996 words)

	Structurae [en]: Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929-1982)
		Khan, Fazlur 100-Story John Hancock Center in Chicago - A Case Study of the Design Process, in "IABSE Journal", August 1972.
		Khan, Fazlur Computer Design of 100-Story John Hancock Center, in "Journal of the Structural Division (ASCE)", December 1963 v.
		Khan, Fazlur John Hancock Center, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", October 1967, n.
	en.structurae.de /persons/data/index.cfm?ID=d000021 (189 words)

	Fazlur Khan Lecture Series - Spring 2007, Lehigh University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His characteristic statement to an editor in 1971, having just been selected Construction's Man of the Year by Engineering News-Record, is commemorated in a plaque in Onterie Center (446 E. Ontario, Chicago): "The technical man must not be lost in his own technology.
		The Khan Lecture Series at Lehigh University, sponsored by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Art and Architecture, honors Dr. Fazlur Rahman Khan's legacy of excellence in structural engineering and architecture.
		As the first holder of the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture it is my privilege and honor to invite you to attend these lectures.
	www.structuremag.org /KhanLecture.htm (298 words)

	Fazlur Rahman Khan - Professional Milestones
		In three short years Khan earned two masters’ degrees — one in structural engineering and one in theoretical and applied mechanics and a PhD in structural engineering.
		In 1961, Fazlur Khan was made a Participating Associate in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; in 1966 he became an Associate Partner and in 1970 a General Partner – the only engineer partner at the time.
		The SEAOI also commissioned a sculpture in Fazlur Khan’s honor by the Spanish artist Carlos Marinas.
	www.fazlurrkhan.com /milestones.htm (463 words)

	Lab Notes: Research from the Berkeley College of Engineering
		Yasmin Sabina (Khan) Byron (M.S.’83 CE) in the 1970s with her father, structural engineer Fazlur Khan, whose life, work and genius are the subject of her recent book, Engineering Architecture: The Vision of Fazlur R. Khan.
		A recent review in The Journal of Architectural Education says it is an "eloquent" and "much needed" work that reveals Khan to be "a human being of extraordinary spiritual depth.
		He appears as a model of what many would like to be." PHOTO COURTESY OF W.W. "He became involved in tall buildings because he was in Chicago in the 1960s and he started working at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill," Byron says, referring to the prestigious architecture and engineering design firm.
	www.coe.berkeley.edu /labnotes/0906/coolalum.html (890 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fazlur Rahman Khan known as the "Einstein of Structural Engineering",was a Partner and Chief Structural Engineer of World renowned firm Skidmore, Owin
		Khan is the innovator of the tubular design, a revolutionary concept in tall building design.
		Among a number of tube buildings, his design of 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago gave him international reputation and put Bangladesh on the world map in the architectural and engineering circles.
	www2.uiuc.edu /unit/psames/fazlur.html (244 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001089820
		Fazlur Rahman Khan was born in Bangladesh in 1929 and immigrated to the United States in 1950.
		A Partner and Chief Structural Engineer of the world-renowned firm of Skidmore, Owens & Merrill, Khan developed the bundled-tube configuration, a revolutionary concept in tall building structure that virtually redefined the limits of the skyscraper.
		With illustrations and detailed drawings, this intriguing monograph is an invaluable resource for students, architects, engineers and readers interested in skyscrapers.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol052/2001089820.html (151 words)

	National Building Museum: Vincent Scully Prize Awarded to His Highness The Aga Khan
		In 1977 His Highness The Aga Khan established The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the world’s largest prize for architecture.
		In addition, through The Aga Khan Trust for Culture established in 1988, The Aga Khan has supported numerous conservation and urban revitalization projects in culturally significant sites of the Islamic world.
		His Highness The Aga Khan is the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims and a direct descendent of the Prophet Muhammad.
	www.nbm.org /Support/agaKhan05.html (243 words)

	Commentary: Sears Tower from Bill Hammack's Engineering & Life Radio Program
		Khan faced two significant problems in designing the Sears Tower: wind and money.
		Fazlur Khan found a clever way to cheaply build a skyscraper: make it from square tubes.
		To illustrate his idea Khan would take nine cigarettes and squeeze them into a bundle, from the end it looked a bit like a honeycomb.
	www.engineerguy.com /comm/4585.htm (515 words)

	Sears Tower
		At 1454 feet, its height surpassed the World Trade Center by 100 feet and was, according to Sears "as tall as the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) will let us go." For more than twenty years after its completion in 1974, Sears Tower remained the tallest skyscraper, and it is still the largest.
		As designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Khan of the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM), the structure was a "bundled tube" system of nine squares with sides of 75 feet (for an overall 225 x 225 ft), sheathed in a curtain wall of dark tinted glass.
		Above the fiftieth floor, some squares dropped away as the tower rose to create smaller floor plates and a distinctive stepped silhouette.
	www.skyscraper.org /TALLEST_TOWERS/t_sears.htm (332 words)

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