Abstract
Discussion of the history of transportation and railroads.Besides a general training in the design and erection of buildings, the planning of a modern railroad station is a task requiring a knowledge of the technical side of railroading which most architects do not possess. Until comparatively recent times, the architect was excluded from the field on the supposition that since this was a purely utilitarian building, the engineer, with his technical training, was better able to cope with the problem. The architect was partly responsible for this invasion of his field by the engineer. Had the railroad been invented before the nineteenth century, there would have been no doubt as to the right of the architect to design and construct these buildings
Committee Chair
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Committee Members
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Degree
Master of Architecture (MArch)
Author's Department
Graduate School of Architecture
Document Type
Restricted Thesis
Date of Award
6-1-1931
Language
English (en)
Recommended Citation
Haeckel, Lester Christian, "The railroad station" (1931). Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design Theses & Dissertations. 51.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/samfox_arch_etds/51
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