Glossary · S
Steel frame
Also called steel skeleton, skeleton frame
A skeleton of steel columns and beams that carries all the loads of a building, the walls being mere cladding.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Frame and Skin, Enlightenment and Revival, The Modern Movement, The Contemporary.
A feature of Beaux-Arts, Modernism architecture.
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