Wednesday, 3 June - Paper Session #1: 2:30pm - 4:00pm
SKYSCRAPERS (Session W_A_001) |
Chair: Lee Gray, University of North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina, USA |
Mary Brush, Brush Architects, LLC, Chicago, Illinois, USA. |
LESSONS FROM THE RESTORATION OF CHICAGO’S SKYSCRAPERS |
John Zils, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Chicago, Illinois, USA. |
CONSTRUCTION OF WILLIS (SEARS) TOWER |
Camilo Villate and Brando Tamayo, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. |
TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS IN BOGOTA´S MODERN TIMES – THE PAN AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING (1966) CASE STUDY |
Gabriel Pardo Redondo, Old Structures Engineering PC, and Berta de Miguel, Vertical Access LLC, New York, New York, USA. |
PERCEPTION OF THE TOWER BUILDING - NEW YORK 1889 |
Tyler Sprague, Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. |
THE RISE OF THE EXTERIOR BEARING WALL, OR “TUBE” SKYSCRAPER: AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE FROM SEATTLE |
GOTHIC VAULTING (Session W_A_002) |
Chair: Hermann Schlimme, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, Italy |
Rocio Maira Vidal, Universidad Politécnica, Madrid, Spain. |
THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEXPARTITE VAULTS IN EUROPE |
Richard Etlin, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA. |
THE “STRENGTH OF VAULTS” |
Ana López‐Mozo, Rosa Senent-Domínguez, Miguel Ángel Alonso‐Rodríguez, José Calvo‐López and Pau Natividad‐Vivo, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain. |
ASYMMETRICAL VAULTS IN LATE EUROPEAN GOTHIC: BASEL AND BEBENHAUSEN AS CASE STUDIES |
J.C. Palacios Gonzalo and F. Tellia, ETSAM, Madrid, Spain. |
INCLINED KEYSTONES IN SPANISH LATE GOTHIC |
P. Fuentes and S. Huerta, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. |
CROSSED-ARCH VAULTS IN LATE-GOTHIC AND EARLY RENAISSANCE VAULTING: A PROBLEM IN BUILDING TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER |
HISTORY OF CONTRACTING (Session W_A_003) |
Chair: Brian Bowen, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
Marvin J. Levine, Levine Companies, Winnetka, Illinois, USA. |
GETTING PAID: HOW U.S. BUILDERS AND GENERAL CONTRACTORS FOUGHT TO GET PAID WHEN DISPUTES AROSE ON THEIR PROJECTS, 1890-1990 |
Naoto Tanaka, Kumamoto University Center for Policy Studies, Kumamoto City, Japan. |
STUDY ON HISTORY OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BASED WATER USE IN MINAMIASO, KUMAMOTO |
Liane A. Hancock, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, USA. |
TURNER CITY |
Kiomars Nassiri K., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, Pouya Foulad and Mohammad Mehdi Mortaheb, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. |
A SURVEY INTO THE EVOLUTION OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS IN IRAN: TWO 19TH CENTURY CONTRACTS |
Elizabeth Cook, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. |
LABOR DISPUTES, PRICE GOUGING, AND ORNAMENTAL ARCHES: NEGOTIATING A NEW BUILDING CULTURE AT THE VIRGINIA STATE PENITENTIARY |
MIDCENTURY MODERNISM (Session W_A_004) |
Chair: Bernard Espion, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
Wiepke van Aaken and Andreas Putz, Institute of Historic Building Research and Conservation, Zurich, Switzerland. |
“NOT THE FAULT OF THE MATERIAL, BUT OF OUR ATTITUDE” – INSULATION MATERIALS IN SWITZERLAND FROM 1950 TO 1970 |
David Miranowski and Brandon Clifford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. |
RE-LEARNING SIGURD LEWERENTZ: AN APPLIED HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ST. PETER’S IN KLIPPAN, SWEDEN |
L. Ciccarelli, Università di Roma, Italy. |
ARCHITECTURE AS CONSTRUCTION IN THE BEGINNINGS OF RENZO PIANO. FIVE PATENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS AND “PIECES” OF BUILDINGS (1965-1969) |
R. Devos, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Marijke Mollaert, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. |
A QUEST FOR EARLY TENSILE STRUCTURES AT EXPO 58 |
Renata Maria Vieira Caldas and Fernando Diniz Moreira, Universidad Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. |
JOINTS REVEALING THE ESSENCE: THE BOMBRIL FACTORY IN BRAZIL |
MASONRY INNOVATIONS (Session W_A_005) |
Chair: James W. P. Campbell, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Beatriz Del Cueto, Pantel, del Cueto & Associates, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. |
PORTLAND CEMENTS IN THE SPANISH CARIBBEAN AS AGENTS OF CHANGE: HYDRAULIC MOSAICS AND CONCRETE BLOCKS |
Y. Govaerts, A. Verdonck, W. Meulebroeck, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, and M. de Bouw, Belgian Building Research Institute, Limelette, Belgium. |
DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL STONE IMITATIONS AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY THROUGH PATENT ANALYSIS IN A BELGIAN CONTEXT |
Maria Luisa Barelli, Politecnico di Torino, Italy. |
STOP AND GO. PATHWAYS OF EXPERIMENTATION WITH ARTIFICIAL STONE IN THE WORK OF SERGIO JARETTI AND ELIO LUZI (1955-59) |
NINETEENTH CENTURY BRIDGES (Session W_A_006) |
Chair: Tom F. Peters, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsyvlania, USA |
Dario A. Gasparini, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. |
WHISTLER, HOWE AND STONE: THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE WESTERN RAILROAD’S BRIDGE OVER THE CONNECTICUT RIVER 1840-1841. |
Chiara Tardini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. |
BRENNER RAILWAY BRIDGES: THE DIFFUSION OF HOWE TYPOLOGY IN AUSTRIAN EMPIRE |
Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen, University of Innsbruck, Austria. |
ALFREDO COTTRAU AND IRON LATTICE BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION IN ITALY 1860-1887 |
Andreas Kahlow, University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam, Germany |
BÜTZOW’S WROUGHT IRON LATTICE TRUSS BRIDGE ACROSS THE NEBEL RIVER, 1848: DESIGN, HISTORY, AND RECONSTRUCTION |
Wednesday, 3 June - Paper Session #2: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
ANTI-SEISMIC CONSTRUCTION (Session W_B_007) |
Chair: Marci Uihlein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, |
C.F. Carocci,University of Catania, Siracusa, Italy, and C. Tocci, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy |
LEARNING FROM THE PAST. ANTI-SEISMIC TECHNIQUES IN THE L’AQUILA POST-1703 RECONSTRUCTION |
Edoardo Currà, Domenico Liberatore, Cesira Paolini, Elena Pizzoli and Alessandro D’Amico, University of Rome Sapienza, Italy |
HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF ANTI-SEISMIC TECHNIQUES: THE POST-EARTHQUAKE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE “PIO MONTE DELLA MISERICORDIA” IN ISCHIA |
R. Morganti, A. Tosone, S. Cocco and D. DiDonato, University of L’Aquila, Italy |
PATENTS OF ANTI-SEISMIC STRUCTURES IN IRON AND STEEL. 1908, MESSINA EARTHQUAKE – 1957, INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF EUROPE COUNCIL |
SPATIAL STRUCTURES (Session W_B_008) |
Chair: Denis Zastavni, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium |
Ekaterina Nozhova, Institute of Historic Building Research and Conservation, Zürich, Switzerland |
ASSEMBLED WITHOUT SCAFFOLDING: THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCHUKHOV’S TIMBER LATTICE HYPERBOLOIDS |
Jacob Paskins, University of Cambridge, |
CONSTRUCTING THE HOVERPORT: BUILDING HOPE, RAISING FEAR |
Rafael García García, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain |
SPATIAL STRUCTURES IN SPAIN 1950 – 1970, FIRST EXPERIENCES BEFORE THE STANDARIZED SYSTEM |
Roland Fuhrmann, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany |
THE EVOLUTION OF STREAMLINED AIRSHIP HANGARS |
TIMBER TRUSSES (Session W_B_009) |
Chair: Philip Caston, Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
Daniel R. Gleave, John A. Ochsendorf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and Emory Kemp, West Virginia University, West Virginia, USA |
HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE TIMBER STRUCTURES OF LEMUEL CHENOWETH |
Anna Serafini and Cristina González-Longo, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland |
THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TIMBER ROOFS IN SCOTLAND: GLASGOW TRADES HALLAND TWEEDDALE HOUSE IN EDINBURGH |
Emanuele Zamperini, University of Pavia, Italy |
TIMBER TRUSSES IN ITALY: THE PROGRESSIVE PREVAILING OF OPEN-JOINT OVER CLOSED-JOINT TRUSSE |
Stefano Lamborghini, Giovanni Mochi, Luca Venturi, and Luca Guardigli, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy |
HISTORIC TIMBER TRUSSES IN EUROPE. THE CASE OF ST. PETER IN BOLOGNA |
THEORIES OF CONSTRUCTION (Session W_B_010) |
Chair: Robert Carvais, Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre La Defense, France |
Dirk Bühler, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany |
HISTORICAL MODELS OF CIVIL ENGINEEERING IN COLLECTIONS IN AUGSBURG AND MUNICH |
Paola Barbera, Università degli Studi di Catania, Siracusa, Italy |
CONSTRUCTION HISTORY: A NEW POINT OF VIEW IN ITALIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY |
Elke Katharina Wittich, Hochschule Fresenius, Hamburg, Germany |
“ARCHITECTURE IS CONSTRUCTION” – TERM AND DEFINITION IN GERMAN ARCHITECTURAL WRITING IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTUR |
Christiane Weber, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria |
THE LAST WITNESSES – PHYSICAL MODELS IN ARCHITECTURE AND STRUCTURAL DESIGN, TAKING THE TECHNICHAL UNIVERSITY IN STUTTGART AS AN EXAMPLE |
LIGHTING (Session W_B_011) |
Chair: Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA |
Giulio Sampaoli Università della Svizzera italiana (USI – AAM), Mendrisio, Switzerland |
ELECTRIC LIGHTING IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF LE CORBUSIER. TOWARDS A HISTORY OF TECHNICAL INSTALLATIONS |
Nathalie Simonnot, Graduate School of Architecture of Versailles, France |
ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION IN ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING US AND FRENCH JOURNALS (1928-1939 |
Niklas W. Vigener, Nicholas T. Floyd, and James Jamieson, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, USA |
A FLOOD OF LIGHT – THE CASE FOR DAYLIGHT IN AMERICAN PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE |
Fausto Barbolini and Luca Guardigli, University of Bologna, Italy |
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ACTIVE SYSTEMS IN SOLAR ARCHITECTUR |
Eric Monin, LACTH, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de Lille, Villeneuve, France |
THE DISCREET EFFICIENCY OF “IN-BILT” PRISMATIC GLASS LIGHTING SYSTEM |
MASONRY CONSTRUCTION (Session W_B_012) |
Chair: Martin Bachmann |
R. Martín Talaverano, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain |
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF SURBASED RIBBED VAULTS |
C. Jäger-Klein, Vienna University of Technology, G. Radinger, Danube University, Krems, W. Stumpf, FH Burgenland – University of Applied Sciences and G. Styhler-Aydın, Vienna University of Technology, Austria |
THE INTERRELATION OF STRUCTURE, NATURAL VENTILATION AND DAYLIGHT INPUT IN THE HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE OF JEDDAH, SAUDI-ARABIA |
Caterina F. Carocci, Università degli Studi di Catania, Siracusa, Italy |
CONSTRUCTION HISTORY OF THE SYRACUSE’S LYRICAL THEATRE. REMARKS ON THE MASONRY WORK IN A SECOND HALF OF NINETEEN-CENTURY SITE |
Funda Solmaz Şakar, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey and Neriman Şahin Güçhan, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey |
TRADITIONAL STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS IN ÜRGÜP: WALLS AND VAULTS |
Thursday, 4 June - Paper Session #3: 10:30am - 12:00pm
ROMAN VAULTING (Session Th_A_013) |
Chair: Santiago Huerta, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain |
Stefano Camporeale, University of Trento, Italy |
CONCRETE BARREL VAULTS REINFORCED WITH STONE VOUSSOIRS ARCHES IN THE WESTERN PROVINCES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (MAURETANIA TINGITANA AND BAETICA) |
C.M. Amici, Università del Salento, Italy |
HIDDEN IRON: HIGH TECH DEVICES IN ROMAN IMPERIAL ARCHITECTURE |
Lynne C. Lancaster, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA |
“ARMCHAIR” VOUSSOIR VAULTS IN BATH BUILDINGS OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE |
Alejandra Albuerne and Martin S. Williams, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING IN THE HISTORIC STUDY OF ARCHITECTURAL REMAINS. THE BASILICA OF MAXENTIUS: A CASE STUDY |
C. Hof, Berlin Institute of Technology (TUB), Germany |
BUILDING CONVERSION AS DEMANDING TASK IN LATE ROMAN CONSTRUCTION – ADDING VAULTS TO THE TOWERS OF THE SIXTH CENTURY CITY WALL OF RESAFA, SYRIA |
BUILDING THE 19TH CENTURY (Session Th_A_014) |
Chair: Robert Carvais, Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre La Defense, France |
Martin Bachmann, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut - Alman Arkeoloji Enstitüsü, Istanbul, Turkey |
THE FINAL ACT IN OTTOMAN TIMBER CONSTRUCTION |
Barbara Shapiro Comte, New York University, Paris, France |
KING’S FEET TO REPUBLICAN METRES: THE EVOLUTION OF CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS, PARIS, 1782-1876 |
Emmanuelle Gallo, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, Paris, France |
PARISIAN SWIMMING POOLS OF THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES, EXAMPLES OF “SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT” AND SAVINGS |
Yegan Kahya Sayar, Işıl Polat Pekmezci, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey and Ayşegül Özer, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES AND BUILDING MATERIALS OF A 19TH CENTURY OFFICIAL STRUCTURE IN ISTANBUL: ADJACENT OFFICES OF OTTOMAN BANK AND THE REGIE COMPANY |
EQUIPMENT AND ELEVATION (Session Th_A_015) |
Chair: Marvin Levine, Levine Companies, Winnetka, Illinois, USA |
Michael Tutton, Independent researcher, London, United Kingdom |
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO TREAD AND HAND WHEEL CRANES AND HOISTS IN CONSTRUCTION AS DEPICTED IN WESTERN ART |
Ilaria Giannetti, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy |
THE ITALIAN STORY OF FERDINANDO INNOCENTI’S TUBULAR SCAFFOLDING (1934-64) |
Jørgen G. Cleemann, Independent scholar, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
EARLY HISTORY OF THE CONCRETE TRANSIT MIXER, 1900-1930 |
Lee E. Gray, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA |
LIFT VERSUS ELEVATOR |
BUILDING IN EARTH AND STONE (Session Th_A_016) |
Chair: Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA |
John Barber, University of Edinburgh, Scotland |
CONSTRUCTING DRYSTONE BUILT IRON AGE BROCH TOWERS IN SCOTLAND: INITIATING A CONSTRUCTION HISTORY |
Mahdi Motamedmanesh, and Klaus Rückert , TU Berlin, Institute for Architecture, Germany |
FORM FOLLOWS CONSTRUCTION: A TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ARCH OF CTESIPHON, THE WIDEST EVER BUILT ADOBE VAULT |
Umut Almac and Zeynep Ahunbay Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF A 16th CENTURY OTTOMAN MASONRY BUILDING: SIYAVUSH PASHA MADRASA |
Ignacio-Javier Gil-Crespo, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain |
LATE MEDIEVAL RAMMED EARTH TECHNIQUE IN THE FORTIFICATIONS OF CASTIILE, SPAIN |
Kemal Reha Kavas, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey |
STRUCTURAL PATTERNS IN THE HISTORY OF ANATOLIAN COMPOSITE MASONRY |
GEOMETRY AND BRIDGES (Session Th_A_017) |
Chair: Stephen Buonopane, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
Liu Yan, Technical University of Munich, Germany |
THE INVENTION OF DA VINCI’S WOVEN STRUCTURES |
Philip S. C. Caston, Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
THE AMAZING MATHEMATICAL BRIDGE |
Tom F. Peters, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA |
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION AND WOODEN TRUSS CONSTRUCTION IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING WORLD |
Yasuhiro Honda, Daiichi Institute of Technology, Kirishimashi, Japan and Ichiro Kobayashi, Kumamoto University, Kumamotoshi, Japan |
COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE ARCH STRUCTURE OF THE KINTAIKYO BRIDGE AND OCCIDENTAL TIMBER ARCH BRIDGES |
BRICK HISTORY (Session Th_A_018) |
Chair: James W. P. Campbell, Queens College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Changxue Shu, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy |
FROM THE BLUE TO THE RED: CHANGING TECHNOLOGY IN THE BRICK INDUSTRY OF MODERN SHANGHAI |
Max Johann Beiersdorf, BTU Cottbus, Germany |
UNDULATING MUD BRICK WALLS IN ANCIENT PHARAONIC EGYPT |
Julia Mathias Manglitz and K. Vance Kelley, Treanor Architects, Kansas City and Topeka, Kansas, USA |
CLEVERLY CONCEALED: THE TRUTH BEHIND VICTORIAN ERA BUTTER JOINT RUNNING BOND |
Sabine Kühnast, HafenCity University, Hamburg, Germany |
THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW BUILDING MATERIALS IN GERMANY FROM 1919 ONWARDS AND THEIR STANDARDIZATION USING THE EXAMPLE OF HOLLOW AND PERFORATED CLAY BRICKS |
Thursday, 4 June - Paper Session #4: 1:00pm - 2:30pm
HEALTH AND COMFORT IN BUILDINGS (Session Th_B_019) |
Chair: Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA |
Andrew Cruse, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
ARE YOU COMFORTABLE NOW? THREE AMERICAN THERMAL COMFORT MODELS |
Magdalena Daniel, ETH Zürich Institut für Denkmalpflege und Bauforschung, Zurich, Switzerland |
CONSTRUCTING HEALTH – THE PURSUIT OF ENGINEERING A “HEALTH-PROMOTING INTERIOR CLIMATE” DURING THE 1830s AND 1840s |
Stephanie Van de Voorde, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium |
THERMAL INSULATION IN BELGIUM BEFORE THE FIRST OIL CRISIS (1945-1975). A QUESTION OF ECONOMY AND COMFORT? |
Anke Fritzsch, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany |
INNOVATION AND RECEPTION: HISTORIC HEATING SYSTEMS IN EUROPEAN MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE OF THE 1ST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY |
GEOMETRY AND CONSTRUCTION (Session Th_B_020) |
Chair: Enrique Rabasa-Diaz, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain |
Ralph Ghoche, Barnard College, New York, New York, USA |
TOWARDS A PARABOLIC ARCHITECTURE: THE PARABOLA AS POLEMIC IN MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH ARCHITECTURE |
Javier Giron, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain |
THE “PARALLEL” AND THE COMPARATIVE METHOD IN JEAN RONDELET TRAITÉ THÉORIQUE ET PRATIQUE DE L’ART DE BÂTIR |
E. Bellin, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
THE CONSTRUCTIVE TURN: ON THE EVOLUTION OF DETAIL AS A DISCIPLINARY CONCEPT, 1755-1800 |
Patricia Radelet-de Grave, Université de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
THE CATENARY AS INSPIRATION |
TIMBER INNOVATIONS (Session Th_B_021) |
Chair: Philip Caston, Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
David Bueche, Hoover Treated Wood Products, Thomson, Georgia, USA, and Brian Bowen, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
TRESTLE: A PECULIARLY AMERICAN STRUCTURE |
Paul W.R. Bell, Jampel Davison & Bell, London, United Kingdom |
19th CENTURY LAMINATED TIMBER ROOFS IN ENGLAND |
Fritz-Ulrich Buchmann, University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany |
CARL TUCHSCHERER: 1911-1934 AN INNOVATIVE GERMAN TIMBER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY |
Mario Rinke, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland |
TERNER & CHOPARD AND THE NEW TIMBER – EARLY DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF LAMINATED TIMBER IN SWITZERLAND |
Ronald W. Anthony, Anthony & Associates, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, and Kent S. Diebolt, Vertical Access LLC, Ithaca, New York, USA |
INVESTIGATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF A NINETEENTH CENTURY WOODEN FLUME SUSPENDED ON A CLIFF |
TWENTIETH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION (Session Th_B_022) |
Chair: Lee E. Gray, University of North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina, USA |
Franz Graf, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lausanne, Switzerland |
THE DUVAL FACTORY AT SAINT-DIÉ – PURISM IN TRANSITION (1948-1950). NOTES TOWARDS A CONSTRUCTION MONOGRAPH |
Ana Rodríguez García, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain |
THINKING WITH THE EYE, THINKING WITH THE HAND; LOOKING FOR A MODERN CONSTRUCTION BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND CRAFTMANSHIP: THE UPPER LAWN PAVILION BY ALISON AND PETER SMITHSON 1959-1962 |
Ana Tostões, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon University, Portugal |
LEARNING FROM AN OUTSTANDING PROCESS. THE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION BUILDINGS (1959-1969) |
Marisa C. Gomez, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
DEFINING MODERN IN POSTWAR AMARILLO: THE SCHELL MUNDAY CO. AND THE 1947 PERMA-STONE PROTEST |
Marieke Jaenen, Universiteit Antwerpen and Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Michael de Bouw, Universiteit Antwerpen & Belgian Building Research Institute (BBRI), Ann Verdonck, Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Maria Leus, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium |
CONSTRUCTING THE ANTWERP INTERWAR INTERIOR: THE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION OF FIRMS |
IRON STRUCTURES (Session Th_B_023) |
Chair: Valérie Nègre, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette, Paris, France |
Esperanza González-Redondo, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain |
FIRST IRON STRUCTURES IN BUILDINGS: A FIREPROOF TRANSITION CASE STUDY IN MADRID |
Elizabeth Shotton, University College Dublin, Ireland |
THE EVOLUTION OF THE IRON TRUSS IN THE WORK OF JOHN RENNIE |
Sergej G. Fedorov, Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU) Cottbus, Germany |
EARLY PREFABRICATED IRON-RIBBED DOMES: ST. ISAACʼS CATHEDRAL IN ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, 1838 –1841 |
Werner Lorenz, and Bernhard Heres, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany |
THE DEMIDOV IRONWORKS IN NEVYANSK (URAL MOUNTAINS) –IRON STRUCTURES IN BUILDING FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY |
CIVIL ENGINEERING HISTORY (Session Th_B_024) |
Chair: John Ochsendorf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
Malcolm Dunkeld, London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom |
THE PORTRAIT COLLECTION OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS |
Marci S. Uihlein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA |
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF THE AMERICAN ENGINEER |
Michael Mark Chrimes, Institution of Civil Engineers, United Kingdom |
ARCHITECT OR ENGINEER? PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY IN PUBLIC WORKS IN BRITISH INDIA 1800-1910 |
Jonathan Clarke, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
AMERICAN-TRAINED STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS IN LONDON, 1895-1910 |
Gregory K. Dreicer, Museum of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
HISTORY OF ENGINEERING, REVERSE-ENGINEERED |
Thursday, 4 June - Paper Session #5: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION (Session Th_C_025) |
Chair: Marvin Levine, Levine Companies, Winnetka, Illinois, USA |
Michiko Maejima, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris, France |
A STUDY OF MILITARY FACILITY PLANNING FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFER FROM FRANCE TO JAPAN 1868‐1930 |
André Guillerme, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France |
FIRST TREATY ON THE INDUSTRIALISATION OF BARRACKS (1804-1811) |
Jeffrey L. Beard, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
CONSTRUCTION OF AMERICAN SLIPWAYS AND DRY DOCKS – FAR-REACHING INFLUENCE OF US NAVAL PROCUREMENT FROM GOSPORT #1 (NORFOLK, VA) TO THE SPEARIN DOCTRINE (BROOKLYN, NY) |
Karey L. Draper, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
BUILDING FOR WAR: EXAMPLES OF TEMPORARY STRUCTURES DESIGNED FOR WARTIME USE IN BRITAIN (1939-1945) |
METAL AND STEEL (Session Th_C_026) |
Chair: Bernard Espion, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium |
Eberhard Pelke, Hessen Mobil, Roads & Traffic Management , Wiesbaden, Germany and Karl-Eugen Kurrer, Ernst & Sohn, Berlin, Germany |
ON THE EVOLUTION OF STEEL-CONCRETE COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION |
Stéphane Sire, University of Brest, France, and Jean-François Douroux, RATP, Département Gestion des Infrastructures, Fontenay-sous-Bois, France |
THE ELECTRIC ARC WELDING REINFORCEMENT OF STEEL BRIDGES FROM THE PARIS METRO IN THE 1930S: THE CASE OF THE AUSTERLITZ VIADUCT OVER THE SEINE |
R. Morganti, A. Tosone, D. Franchi and D. Di Donato, University of L’Aquila, Italy |
STEEL CONSTRUCTION FOR A NEW PUBLIC COMPANY. THE RAI EXECUTIVE OFFICES |
Laura Balboni and Paolo Corradini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
THE CONSTRUCTION OF ICE HOUSES IN THE ARISTOCRATIC RESIDENCES IN THE EMILIA COUNTRYSIDE |
INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS (Session Th_C_027) |
Chair: Malcolm Dunkeld, London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom |
Barbara Berger, Institute for History of Science and Technology, Munich, Germany |
THE GASHOLDER – SHAPED BY ITS FUNCTION. THE ITALIAN EXAMPLE |
Christine Roels, La Cambre Horta de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
LITERATURE REVIEW ON RURAL ARCHITECTURE IN BELGIUM: IDEAS TO MODERNIZE FARMSTEADS IN ARCHITECTURAL PUBLICATIONS FROM 1847-1884 |
Sage M. Roberts and Brian Bowen, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
THE AMUNDSEN-SCOTT SOUTH POLE STATION: CONSTRUCTION AT THE END OF THE WORLD |
EARLY AMERICAS (Session Th_C_028) |
Chair: Ivan Myjer, Building and Monument Conservation, Arlington, Massachusetts, USA |
Luis A. Torres-Garibay and Eugenia M. Azevedo-Salomao, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, México |
PURÉPECHA WORK ORGANIZATION IN TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE PRODUCTION |
E. Ricaud, Sunmetron Architects, Paris, France |
PRE-COLUMBIAN AND EARLY COLONIAL ADOBE BRICKS IN THE UNITED STATES: A TOOL IN THE SERVICE OF DATING HISTORIC BUILDINGS |
Leah McCurdy, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas, USA |
MAYA CONSTRUCTION HISTORY: EXPLORATIONS THROUGH BUILDINGS ARCHAEOLOGY AND CONSERVATION |
CONCRETE SHELLS (Session Th_C_029) |
Chair: Stephen Buonopane, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
Carlo Dusi, Università della Svizzera, Switzerland |
“ROAM HOME TO A DOME”, FROM METAPHOR TO THE CONSTRUCTION: DANTE BINI’S PNEUMATIC FORMWORK THINSHELLED REINFORCED CONCRETE DOMES |
Rob Whitehead, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA |
FORMATIVE EXPERIENCES: SAARINEN’S SHELLS AND THE EVOLUTIONARY IMPACT OF CONSTRUCTION CHALLENGES |
Roland May, BTU, Cottbus, Germany |
SHELL SELLERS. THE INTERNATIONAL DISSEMINATION OF THE ZEISS-DYWIDAG SYSTEM, 1923–1939 |
MATERIAL FABRICATION (Session Th_C_030) |
Chair: Valérie Nègre, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette, Paris, France |
Jennifer Cappeto, Cappeto Conservation LLC, Denver, Colorado, USA |
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: THE HISTORY OF METAL LATH IN AMERICA |
Rachel L. Will and Edward A. Gerns, Wiss, Janney Elstner Associates; Chicago, Illinois, USA |
DETAILING IN TRANSITION: HYBRID WALLS AND THE EVOLUTION OF TERRA COTTA DETAILING |
Wendy Andrews, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
INNOVATIONS IN ENGLISH WALLPAPER MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURE FROM 1824 TO 1938: EVIDENCE FROM THE COWTAN ORDER BOOKS |
Saturday, 6 June - Paper Session #6: 10:00am - 11:30am
BUILDING THE AMERICAS (Session Sa_A_031) |
Chair: Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA |
Roberto Reyes Pérez, Lucía Tello Peón and Pablo A. Chico Ponce de León, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México |
THE YUCATECAN HACIENDA: RELATIONS BETWEEN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS, CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES, MATERIALS, AND SETTLEMENTS MORPHOLOGY |
Neal A. Vogel, Restoric, LLC, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
THE HISTORY AND CONSERVATION OF LEAD SILHOUETTES IN AMERICA |
Ivan Myjer, Building and Monument Conservation, Arlington, Massachusetts, USA |
A COMPARISON OF THE CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF THREE 18TH CENTURY SPANISH COLONIAL MISSION CHURCHES IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS |
Elizabeth Cook, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia |
FROM SUSQUEHANNA PINE TO NORTH CAROLINA CYPRESS: REGIONAL LUMBER SUPPLIES IN ANTEBELLUM RICHMOND, VIRGINIA |
CODES AND DOCUMENTATION (Session Sa_A_032) |
Chair: Jeffrey Beard, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Sean Weiss, The City College of New York, New York, USA |
FROZEN ASSETS: PHOTOGRAPHY, TIME, AND LABOR ON THE CONSTRUCTION SITE |
Nigel Isaacs, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
WHAT’S HOLDING THE ROOF UP? USING CENSUS DATA TO EXPLORE DWELLING CONSTRUCTION AND STRUCTURE CHANGES |
J.J. Smallwood, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF CONSTRUCTION HEALTH AND SAFETY |
Robert A. Svetz, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA |
ATRIUM (W)HOLES IN THE CODE |
MEDIEVAL CONSTRUCTION (Session Sa_A_033) |
Chair: Javier Giron, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain |
Michael Tutton, Independent Researcher, London, United Kingdom |
STAIRCASES IN EARLY EASTERN KEEPS IN ENGLAND c1067 TO c1190 WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ROCHESTER |
Marina Anna Laura Mengali, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy |
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FIRST CURTAIN WALL OF VITERBO IN 1095 A. D.: A MODERN EXAMPLE OF STANDARDIZATION AND ORGANIZATION OF A COMPLEX FORTIFICATION WORK |
Klaus Tragbar, University of Innsbruck, Austria |
CONSTRUCTING A CATHEDRAL. NOTES ON THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT OF SIENA CATHEDRAL |
José Calvo-López, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Miguel Á. Alonso-Rodríguez, Enrique Rabasa-Díaz, Ana López-Mozo, Carmen Pérez-Ríos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Pau Natividad-Vivó, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain |
GEOMETRY AND CAPRICIOUSNESS IN 11TH-CENTURY ARMENIAN ARCHITECTURE. THE SCRIPTORIUM OF THE MONASTERY OF SANAHIN |
S. Conan, University Charles de Gaulle, Domaine Universitaire du Pont de Bois and University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium |
FLATS ARCHES WITH JOGGLE JOINTS: THEIR USE IN TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURY CISTERCIAN ABBEYS |
MIDCENTURY CONSTRUCTION (Session Sa_A_034) |
Chair: Sergej Federov, Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU) Cottbus, Germany |
Sarah Melsens and Inge Bertels, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium |
SHAPING INDIA’S CITIES THE CHANGING ROLE OF STAKEHOLDERS IN CONSTRUCTION SINCE INDEPENDENCE (1947) |
Gabriela Campagnol and Stephen Caffey, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA |
CONSTRUCTION OF THE MUSEU DE ARTE DE SÃO PAULO |
Francesca Albani, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Italy |
PREFABRICATION IN ITALY AFTER WORLD WAR II: ZANUSO VERSUS CAMUS |
Michael Abrahamson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
‘DECENT AND SUITABLE’ MODULES: THE POLITICS OF CONSTRUCTION RESEARCH IN HUD’S OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH, 1969-1974 |
Tiziana Basiricò, University of Enna, Kore, Italy |
EXPERIMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS IN MIXED STRUCTURE BUILDINGS OF THE ’50S IN SICILY |
CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS (Session Sa_A_035) |
Chair: Brian Bowen, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
Tiziana Campisi and Manfredi Saeli, Polytechnic School, University of Palermo, Italy |
ARISTOCRATIC PALACES IN THE XVIII CENTURY IN PALERMO THE CONSTRUCTION SITE OF MERENDINO COSTANTINO PALACE |
Alexandrina Buchanan, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom |
CONSTRUCTION IN THE WORK OF ROBERT WILLIS |
R. Carvais, Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense and V. Nègre, Ecole Nationale Superieure d’architecture, Paris, France |
PARISIAN SURVEYORS (1690-1792): FOUNDING AN EXPERT CORPS |
Hentie Louw, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom |
A QUESTION OF IDENTITY: EVOLVING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE ENGLISH CARPENTERS AND JOINERS FROM THE MID-SIXTEENTH TO THE EARLY-TWENTIETH CENTURY |
Saturday, 6 June - Paper Session #7: 1:00pm - 2:30pm
INFRASTRUCTURE AND WATER (Session Sa_B_036) |
Chair: Malcolm Dunkeld, London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom |
Daijiro Kitagawa, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan |
MODERNIZATION OF JAPANESE NATIONAL ROUTE 1 IN 1920’S AND 1930’S |
Agustin Castillo Martinez, Universidad de Granada, Spain |
THE TRANSPYRENEAN RAILWAY VIA CANFRANC |
Elizabeth Shotton, University College Dublin, Ireland |
THE DIVERGENCE OF THE PROFESSIONS: JAMES GANDON, JOHN RENNIE AND THE BUILDING OF THE REVENUE DOCKS |
Hermann Schlimme, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, Italy |
WESTERN STYLE SPRING FOUNTAINS, PLAYS OF WATER AND HYDRAULIC CONSTRUCTION IN THE YUANMINGYUAN IN BEIJING AND THEIR EUROPEAN MODELS |
CONSTRUCTION ORGANIZATION (Session Sa_B_037) |
Chair: Brian Bowen, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
Gemma Domènech Casadevall, Catalan Institute of Cultural Heritage Research (ICRPC), Girona, Spain |
PROTECTIONISM, CORPORATISM AND ENDOGAMY IN THE BUILDING GUILDS OF CATALAN COASTAL CITIES DURING THE MODERN |
Maria do Carmo Ribeiro and Arnaldo Sousa Melo, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal |
ORGANIZATION OF CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY IN MEDIEVAL PORTUGAL: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH |
M.A. Chamorro Trenado, R. Ripoll Masferrer, Polythecnic School, University of Girona and J. Salvat Comas, Technical Architect, Girona, Spain |
PUBLIC WORKS AND THE HISTORICAL CITY IN 19TH-CENTURY SPAIN: THE ISABEL II BRIDGE OF GIRONA |
Marco Di Nallo, Independent Scholar, Milan, Italy |
‘CONSTRUIRE MIEUX, PLUS VITE ET MOINS CHER’ - SWISS INDUSTRIALISED SCHOOL BUILDING SYSTEMS |
STADIUM AND PAVILIONS (Session Sa_B_038) |
Chair: Denis Zastavni, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
Eberhard Möller, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, Germany |
INVENTION AND INNOVATION IN STRUCTURAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION – FREI OTTO AND THE MUNICH OLYMPIC STADIUM 1972 – A HISTORICAL CASE STUDY |
A. Graciani, University of Sevilla, Spain |
BUILDING THE PAVILIONS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE IBERIAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION (SEVILLE, 1929) |
William E. Reifsteck II, Design-Build Institute of America, Costa Mesa, California, USA |
TWO MILLION BRICKS IN 160 DAYS: THE CONSTRUCTION OF NOTRE DAME STADIUM IN 1930 |
Alicia L. Svenson, Building Conservation Associates, Inc., Newton Centre, Massachusetts, USA |
BUILDING HARVARD STADIUM: EARLY CONCRETE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION |
TWENTIETH CENTURY STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING (Session Sa_B_039) |
Chair: Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA |
T. Iori, and S. Poretti, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy |
THE LANGUAGE OF STRUCTURES. THE ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING |
Manfred Curbach, Thomas Hänseroth, Falk Hensel, Silke Scheerer and Oliver Steinbock, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany |
GENIUS AND NAZI? WILLY GEHLER (1876−1953) − A GERMAN CIVIL ENGINEER AND PROFESSOR BETWEEN TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE AND POLITICAL ENTANGLEMENTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY |
Lukas Ingold and Mario Rinke, ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
SERGIO MUSMECI’S SEARCH FOR NEW FORMS OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES |
A. Como and L. Smeragliuolo Perrotta, University of Salerno, Italy |
IS ARCHITECTURE MOVING TOWARD IMMUTABLE FORMS AND CHARACTERS? AN INVESTIGATION AT THE THEORETICAL LEVEL OF THE THOUGHT OF THE ITALIAN ENGINEER PIER LUIGI NERVI THROUGH TEXTS AND IMAGES |
CONCRETE SHELLS (Session Sa_B_040) |
Chair: Marci Uihlein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA |
Hernando Vargas Caicedo, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá and Jorge Galindo Díaz, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, Colombia |
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIN CONCRETE SHELL ROOFS IN COLOMBIA DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY: THE WORKS OF THE GUILLERMO GONZÁLEZ ZULETA (1916-1995) |
Stephen Buonopane, and Mikhail Osanov, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
EVALUATION OF AUGUST KOMENDANT’S STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF THE SHELLS OF THE KIMBELL ART MUSEUM |
J. William Plunkett and Caitlin T. Mueller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
THIN CONCRETE SHELLS AT MIT: KRESGE AUDITORIUM AND THE 1954 CONFERENCE |
Tyler S. Sprague, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA |
SCULPTURE ON A GRAND SCALE: THE STRUCTURAL GEOMETRY OF JACK CHRISTIANSEN’S THIN SHELLS |
RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION (Session Sa_B_041) |
Chair: Jeffrey Beard, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Jane Murphy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
NORMAN CHERNER AND DIY AFTER WORLD WAR II |
Beverly K. Grindstaff, San José State University, San Jose, California, USA |
DEMOBILIZATION, CONSTRUCTION, CONVERSION: AMERICAN VETERANS HOUSING IN THE IMMEDIATE POST-WAR ERA |
Anna V. Andrzejewski, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
EDUCATING THE POSTWAR BUILDER: COLLEGE PROGRAMS FOR ASPIRING MERCHANT BUILDERS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1945-1965 |
Jane Murphy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
FEDERALLY FUNDED RESEARCH AND THE SMALL HOMES COUNCIL |
Saturday, 6 June - Paper Session #8: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
GUASTAVINO VAULTING (Session Sa_C_042) |
Chair: Santiago Huerta, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain |
Mónica Silva-Contreras, Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico |
THE GUASTAVINO SYSTEM IN MEXICO: RESCUING THE UNKNOWN WORK OF A MODERN BUILDER |
Jonathan Calman Ellowitz and John A. Ochsendorf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION HISTORY OF GUASTAVINO VAULTING AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART |
Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA |
UNUSUAL CONDITIONS = NOVEL SOLUTIONS: GUASTAVINO’S STRATEGIES AND UNDERLYING GEOMETRY FOR THE VAULTS OF IRREGULAR PLAN IN NEW YORK MUNICIPAL BUILDING |
Laura N. Buchner, Building Conservation Associates, Inc., New York, New York, USA |
R. GUASTAVINO CO: FIVE DECADES OF CONSTRUCTION AT THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE |
Benjamin Hays, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA |
THE MANY LIVES OF THOMAS JEFFERSON’S ROTUNDA |
EARLY CONCRETE (Session Sa_C_043) |
Chair: Donald Friedman, Old Structures Engineering, PC, New York, New York, USA |
G. Predari, G. Mochi, and R. Gulli, University of Bologna, Italy |
HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION IN THE 30’S: THE CASE STUDY OF THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING IN BOLOGNA, ITALY |
A. Bellicoso, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy |
THE CASA DEL BALILLA IN L’AQUILA (1929-1931). MOVING TOWARDS AN INDEPENDENT SKELETON IN REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES |
Knut Stegmann, State Conservation Office of Westphalia Lippe, Muenster, Germany |
EXPERIMENTAL CULTURES IN EARLY CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION |
Sabine Kuban, BTU Cottbus, Germany |
INNOVATION AND STANDSTILL - EARLY APPLICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE “MONIER SYSTEM” IN BERLIN |
K. Watanabe and W. Abhichartvorapan Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan |
MIKISHI ABE: JAPANESE PIONEER ENGINEER-ARCHITECT OF REINFORCED COCRETE IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY |
TWENTIETH CENTURY BRIDGES (Session Sa_C_044) |
Chair: Stephen Buonopane, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
D. Zastavni, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium and C. Fivet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
PURELY GEOMETRICAL CONSIDERATIONS DURING THE DESIGN OF BRIDGES IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY – THE CASE OF R. MAILLART |
Bernard Espion, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
THE FOUNDING EVENTS OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE IN BELGIUM SEEN THROUGH THE BLATON ARCHIVES |
Hilal Tuğba Ormecioglu, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Bilge Kucukdogan, Inanna Engineering & Consultancy Ziyabey Cad. and Aslı Er Akan, Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology, Ankara, Turkey |
BRIDGING THE GOLDEN HORN: A CHALLENGE OF ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE, AND TECHNOLOGY AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY |
Robert M. Frame III, Mead & Hunt Engineers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
PRESTRESSED SUBURBIA: A NEW MATERIAL IN POSTWAR CONSTRUCTION |
Robert J. Dermody, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA |
DAVID B. STEINMAN - DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE MACKINAC BRIDGE |
IRON CONSTRUCTION (Session Sa_C_045) |
Chair: Werner Lorenz, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany |
Quentin Collette and Ine Wouters, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium |
UNRAVELING THE DESIGN OF END-OF-THE-19TH-CENTURY RIVETED CONNECTIONS IN BELGIUM |
Christoph Hölz, University of Innsbruck, Austria |
ART AND INDUSTRY AROUND 1850. THE CIVIL ENGINEER FRANZ JAKOB KREUTER |
Volker Wetzk, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany |
THE USE OF STEEL CASTINGS IN MECHANICAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERING - GERMANY. 1850-1950 |
Abe Yillah Roman Alvarado, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana- Azcapotzalco (UAM-A), Coyoacan, Mexico |
HISTORICAL AND CONSTRUCTIVE ASPECTS OF THE IRON MUNICIPAL PALACE AT ORIZABA IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY |
CASCARAS HISPANIOLAS (Session Sa_C_046) |
Chair: Javier Giron, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain |
J. Antuña, Technical University of Madrid, Spain |
GANDÍA CHURCH ROOF SHELL: A SLENDER FOLDED ROOF SHELL BY EDUARDO 3 |
Mónica Morales-Segura, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain |
ANALYSIS ON THE ROOF OF THE SANCTUARY OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE, IN MADRID (SPAIN). CLARIFICATIONS ON THE PARTICIPATION OF FELIX CANDELA IN THE PROJECT |
J. García Muñoz, and F. Magdalena Layos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain |
EQUILIBRIUM AND PREFABRICATION. PREFABRICATED BRICK VAULTS IN LATIN AMERICA |
Sunday, 7 June - Paper Session #9: 10:30am - 12:00pm
BUILDING THE GOTHIC (Session Su_A_047) |
Chair: Benjamin Ibarra-Sevilla, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA |
Thomas Coomans, University of Leuven, Belgium and Yitao Xu, Peking University, Beijing, China |
GOTHIC CHURCHES IN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY CHINA: ADAPTING WESTERN BUILDING TECHNIQUES TO CHINESE CONSTRUCTION TRADITION |
Rosa Senent-Domínguez, Ana López-Mozo, Rafael Martín-Talaverano, Carmen Pérez-de-los-Ríos and Enrique Rabasa-Díaz, Technical University of Madrid, Spain |
LATE GOTHIC RIBBED VAULTS. BASIS FOR CATALOGING |
Marina Šimunić Buršić, University of Zagreb, Croatia |
PROBLEMS OF VAULTING THE EASTERN PART OF THE GOTHIC CATHEDRAL OF ZAGREB (CROATIA) |
Fabián S. López Ulloa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain |
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DRAWINGS OF G. E. STREET, A RESOURCE FOR UNDERSTANDING SPANISH GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE |
NINETEENTH CENTURY IRON CONSTRUCTION (Session Su_A_048) |
Chair: Werner Lorenz, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany |
I. Wouters and I. Bertels Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium |
BUILDING WITH BOOKCASES: AN ARCHIVE DEPOT IN IRON (ANTWERP, 1851) |
Rachel. B. Cruise, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom |
THE 300 METRE TOWER |
C. Fivet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; D. Zastavni, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium and J. A. Ochsendorf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
WHAT MAURICE KOECHLIN’S SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION TELLS ABOUT HIS LIFE (1856-1946) |
Stephen J. Kelley, BVH Architects, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Alan O’Bright, National Park Service, St. Louis, Missouri, USA and Dan M. Worth, BVH Architects, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA |
THE OLD COURTHOUSE REVEALS THE ROLE OF ST LOUIS AT THE FOREFRONT OF ARCHITECTURAL CAST IRON IN THE UNITED STATES |
TEACHING CONSTRUCTION (Session Su_A_049) |
Chair: Valérie Nègre, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette, France |
Rafael Hernando de la Cuerda, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain |
THE EXHIBITION AND INFORMATION CENTRES IN MADRID AND BARCELONA, THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND MODERN CONSTRUCTION IN SPAIN |
Wido J. Quist, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
J.A. VAN DER KLOES (1845-1935). A PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST DUTCH PROFESSOR IN BUILDING MATERIALS |
Antonio Brucculeri, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Val de Seine, Paris, France |
BALANCING ART AND SCIENCE: EMMANUEL BRUNE AND THE TEACHING OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AT THE ÉCOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS IN THE EARLY THIRD REPUBLIC |
Inge Bertels and Jelena Dobbels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium |
CATALOGING CONTRACTORS KNOW-HOW. AN ANALYSIS OF LATE NINETEENTH- AND EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY LIBRARY CATALOGUES OF BELGIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS |
BUILDING ARCHAEOLOGY (Session Su_A_050) |
Chair: Javier Giron, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain |
Michele Chiuini, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA |
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE BY ADLER AND SULLIVAN: STRUCTURAL SYSTEM AND TYPOLOGICAL INNOVATION |
Petra Urbanova, and Pierre Guibert, Universite de Bordeaux Montaigne, Pessac, France |
NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE DATING OF ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL MORTARS BY OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE [OSL]: COMPARISON OF CASE STUDIES |
Donald Friedman, Old Structures Engineering, PC, New York, New York, USA |
ABOVE-GROUND ARCHAEOLOGY OF DEMOLISHED BUILDINGS |
Ana Teresa Cirigliano Villela and Regina Andrade Tirello, UNICAMP, Campinas-São Paulo, Brazil |
ARCHAEOLOGY OF ARCHITECTURE: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF BRAZILIAN CONSTRUCTION - REFLECTIONS ON THE APPLICABILITY OF “HARRIS MATRIX” |
Anthony Caldwell, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA |
PHAROS LIGHTHOUSE: AN EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIGITAL RECONSTRUCTION |
STRUCTURAL THEORY AND CONSTRUCTION (Session Su_A_051) |
Chair: John Ochsendorf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
Thierry Ciblac, Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Paris La Vilette and Mathias Fantin, Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Paris Malaquais, Paris, France |
REDISCOVERING DURAND-CLAYE’S METHOD USING FORCE NETWORK METHOD IMPLEMENTED FOR CONSTRUCTION HISTORY |
Christoph Rauhut, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
BAUPLATZSTATIK – HOW STRUCTURAL THEORY ALTERED AVERAGE BUILDING PROCESSES AND HOW DAILY ROUTINE INFLUENCED STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS |
Isabel Tarrío, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain |
THE BUTTRESSING SYSTEM IN POL ABRAHAM’S CRITICISM OF VIOLLET-LE-DUC’S THEORIES |
François Fleury and Bernard Duprat, National School of Architecture, Lyon, France |
ANALYSIS OF AN UNPUBLISHED TREATISE OF AN 18TH CENTURY ENGINEER, ANTOINE D’ALLEMAN (1679-1760) |
STEREOTOMY AND GEOMETRY (Session Su_A_052) |
Chair: Richard Etlin, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA |
Ricardo García Baño and José Calvo López, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain |
ABOUT AN EARLY 16TH-CENTURY STONECUTTING MANUSCRIPT IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SPAIN AND THE ORIGINS OF MODERN STEREOTOMY |
Claudia Calabria, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy |
GEOMETRIC AND CONSTRUCTIVE RATIONALIZATION IN THE MULTIRIBBED VAULT: THE “NODE” AS A CRITICAL ISSUE |
M. R. Nobile and E. Garofalo, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy |
STEREOTOMY OF THE LATE-MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN. CROSSROADS OF EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN |