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 BINIS 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