Fazlur Khan

By Henry Petroski

Pioneer of the "tube concept of design"

Anthropology Engineering

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January-February 1999

Volume 87, Number 1
Page 16

DOI: 10.1511/1999.16.16

The street sign on the northwest corner of the intersection of West Jackson Boulevard and South Franklin Street in Chicago designates that corner "Fazlur R. Khan Way." Who was Fazlur Khan, why is a street corner in Chicago named after him and what is the significance of these questions for engineering?

Photograph courtesy of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

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