Eiffel Tower. Architecture
iron is the generic name of an architectural style and construction of the nineteenth century, originated in the availability of new materials that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.
Industrial Revolution, which began in England around the year 1760, brought many new compositions previously not even dreamed. However, the architects continued to use traditional materials for a long time while the colleges of Fine Arts, considered "low art" the fantastic structures designed by engineers throughout the nineteenth century.
The first building constructed entirely of iron and glass was the Crystal Palace (1850-1851, rebuilt between 1852 and 1854) in London, a great ship ready to host the first World Exposition of 1851, which was designed by Joseph Paxton who had learned the use of these materials in the construction of greenhouses. This building was the precursor of prefabricated architecture, and it proved possible to make beautiful buildings in iron.
Among the few examples of the use of iron in nineteenth century architecture features a Labrouste Henri building, the library of St. Genevieve (1843-1850) in Paris, a neoclassical building on the outside but inside the metal structure could be seen. The most impressive iron buildings of the century, built for the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889: the ship of Machinery and the famous Eiffel Tower (1887) engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.
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