If pushing beyond one's limits and reaching for the sky has been a human aspiration since the time of Icarus, the urge to construct ever taller buildings that circumvent the laws of statics and reach for the clouds has been a Leitmotiv in the history of architecture, especially since the Modern Age.

Indeed, it is with the genesis of the modern city, particularly in the United States, that a new building typology has made its way: the skyscraper, with its marked vertical development (at least 15-20 stories in origin, with a minimum height of 50-70 meters), which, since the experiments of the Chicago school in the second half of the 19th century, gradually became a symbol of technological and economic development exported all over the world.