reach the sky

Human Reaching Sky

A Brief history of high

structure innovation

Supernatural Believe

Systematic Philosophy

3,800 Years for New record

Age of Modern Science

Early - Skyscraper

LimitEvolution and Human Pride

FightingGravity

Reach for the sky

5,000 Years of innovation history

Babel Tower?

Structure Evolution

Green Skyscrapers

Hi-tech Skyscrapers

Knowledge Intensive Industry

Priest6500 BC

Guild1500 BC

Architect1700

Engineer

Firm

Timeline

Ubaid Structure6500 BC

Greece Geometry1500 BC

Modern Science1700

TubeTheory1970

FiniteElement2000

With Kondratiev’s Wave

Period Date (Prosperity to prosperity) Innovation

First Industrial Revolution (Britain)

Circa 1787–1842 Beam Theory (Radical)

Railroad and Steam Engine Era

Circa 1842–1897 Chicago Skelton (Incremental)

Age of steel, electricity and internal combustion

1897–1939 Lift, Electrical, Telephone, Plumbing System (Component Innovation)

War and Post-war Boom: Suburbia

1939–1982 Tube, Bundle Tube and X’Brace Theory (Radical)

Post Industrial Era: Information Technology and care of elderly

1982 – Present Finite element Theory (Radical)

Human Instinct