One step leads to another.
Make a flowchart for your project. Can’t do it? At what point do you get hung up? Is there a reason why?
One step leads to another.
People have always had the desire to get higher. During a visit to the Philippines as a teenager, William Le Baron Jenney noticed that the native huts were built of light, flexible bamboo frames that could withstand tropical storms. Years later, after becoming an architect, he needed a solution to build Chicago up instead of out. Thinking back to the bamboo huts, Jenney put the load of the building on a steel skeleton instead of the walls, which allowed buildings to be built higher. In 1885, Chicago’s 10-story-high Home Insurance Building became the first building made with steel beam construction, and the first skyscraper.
“It had to be done before others could move on to greater heights.”
— William le Baron Jenney
