Tuesday 3 July 2012 - Program

Tuesday 3 July, 13:00-15:15Malaquais Site

13:00-14:00Registration-Welcome [Palais des Etudes]

14:30-15:15Introduction [Amphi Binet]

Tuesday 3 July, 15:15-16:15Malaquais Site, Amphi Binet

Keynote Lecture:

Dominique BARJOT, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France

Why Was the World Construction Industry Dominated by European Majors [Late 19th-Early 21st Centuries]?

Sessions

Tuesday 3 July, 17:00-19:00Malaquais Site

401. Construction History, Epistemology & Historiography Room 312

Chair: Linda CLARKE, Univ. of Westminster, London, UK

Knut STEGMANN, Institute of Historic Building Research and Conservation, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Analysing Historical Timber Structures – A Case Study on Ernst Gladbach [1812–1896] and His Research on the “Swiss Style”

João MASCARENHAS-MATEUS, CES – Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal

Ethnographic Studies and Their Contribution to Construction History in Portugal

Torsten MEYER, Institute of Historic Building Research and Conservation, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

The Science of Building as a Polytechnic Discipline in the 19th Century

Sascha ROESLER, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Architectural Anthropology: A Knowledge-Based Approach

404. Architectural & Structural Design 1 Room 104

Chair: Enrique RABASA DÍAZ, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Richard A. ETLIN, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

Toward an Iconography of Stereotomy

María ANTÓN BARCO, Eva J. RODRÍGUEZ ROMERO, Juan TEJELA JUEZ, CEU San Pablo Univ., Inst. of Technology [EPS], Madrid, Spain

Builders’ Inventiveness in Madrid’s Baroque Convents: Construction Invariables

Dominic BOULERICE, York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada

The Narthex Vaults of the Church of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois in Paris

James W.P. CAMPBELL, Univ. of Cambridge, UK

The First Complete List of All the Models Made for the Construction of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London 1675-1720

411. Transfer of Knowledge, Colonial Situations 1 Room 302

Chair: Hélène VACHER, ENSA de Nancy, France

Benjamin IBARRA-SEVILLA, School of Architecture, Univ. of Minnesota, MN, USA

Transmission of Building Technology from Europe to the Americas: Underlying Geometry and Stereotomy Studies of Three Ribbed Vaults Constructed in Mexico between 1535 and 1575

Randall BIRD, School of Architecture and Planning, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

The Transformation of Architecture and Construction Technology of the Merina Kingdom in Highlands Madagascar, 1820-1880

Alexandra QUANTRILL, Columbia Univ., New York City, NY, USA

Technical Supremacy: Tropical Architecture and Technologies of the British State

Bo-Hsun YAO, Min-Fu HSU, Dept. of Architecture, National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan

The Developmental Procedure of the Traditional Architectural Woodworking Tools in Taiwan

415. Craftsmanship, Gender, Individuals & Communities Room 308

Chair: Susan VERDI WEBSTER, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA

Shelley E. ROFF, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, TX, USA

Building Construction in Medieval Spain: The Female Perspective

Nina BAKER, Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Who Paints the House? Scotswomen as Housepainters and Decorators from 1820

Gemma DOMÈNECH CASADEVALL, Catalan Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, Girona, Spain

Building Trades in Catalonia during the Modern Era: The Case of Immigration to Girona City

Cristina GONZÁLEZ-LONGO, Dimitris THEODOSSOPOULOS, Architecture, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK

From Master Mason to Architect: James Smith’s Construction Techniques at the End of 17th Century in Scotland

420. The Real Estate Market, The Cost of Construction Room 206

Chair: Albert MALAQUIN, Fondation Palladio, Altarea-Cogedim, France

Virginie MATHÉ, Université Ch. De Gaulle-Lille 3, France

How Much did Greek Temples Cost? Economic Issues of Construction in Greek Cities [4th -3rd C. B.C.]

Arnaldo MELO, Maria Do Carmo RIBEIRO, Univ. of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Construction Financing in Late Medieval Portuguese Towns [14th-16th c.]

Michela BARBOT, Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l’Economie, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France

Between Market and Architecture: The Role of the College of Engineers, Architects and Land Surveyors in Real Estate Pricing in 16th-18th Century Milan

Gema RAMÍREZ PACHECO, Federico GARCÍA ERVITI, Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic Univ. of Madrid [ETSA UPM], Spain, María Jesús PEÑALVER MARTÍNEZ, Juan Francisco MACIÁ SÁNCHEZ, Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic Univ. of Cartagena [ARQUIDE UPCT], Spain

Building Expropriation Process for the Construction of the New Dock at the Port Of Cartagena [Spain] in the 18th Century

423. Brick & Tile Room 103

Chair: Lynne C. LANCASTER, Ohio Univ., USA

Gerold EßER, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria

Masonry Constructions as Built Archives: An Innovative Analytical Approach to Reconstructing the Evolution of Imperial Opus Testaceum Brickwork in Rome

Moses JENKINS, Historic Scotland and the Univ. of Dundee, UK

Three Key Aspects of the History of Brick Construction in Scotland

Sara WERMIEL, Independent Scholar, Boston, MA, USA

Against Replication: Carved Brick at the Dawn of the Terracotta Age

Miles LEWIS, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

The Marseilles Tile

440. Industrialization & Rationalization Lenoir 2

Chair: Caroline MANIAQUE, ENSA Paris-Malaquais / LACHT-ENSAP de Lille, France

Kinda FARES, HTTP-CNAM, Paris, France

The Dismantled War: Barracks and Industrialization of Light Construction [1914-1918]

Vanessa FERNANDEZ, ENSA de Toulouse / HTTP-CNAM, Paris, France

The Simplification of the Frame: Window Experiments in the Work of Le Corbusier in the 1920s

Rafael HERNANDO DE LA CUERDA, School of Architecture, Universidad de Alcalá ETSA-UAH, Madrid, Spain

Rationalization of Systems and Materials in Construction in the Spanish Modern Movement: Fernando Garcia Mercadal, 1921-1937

Leda DIMITRIADI, ENSA Paris-Malaquais, France

Post-War Industrialized Construction Processes in France and Architectural Flexibility

Tuesday 3 July, 19:00-20:00Malaquais Site, Palais des Études

Welcome Cocktail and MRU Exhibit Opening:

Photographs at Work: The Reconstruction of French Towns [1945-1958]

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