Saturday 7 July 2012 - Program

Saturday 7 July, 9:00-10:00Malaquais Site, Amphi 2

Keynote Lecture:

Susan VERDI WEBSTER, Jane Williams Mahoney Professor of Art History and American Studies, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA

The Secret Lives of Buildings in Colonial Quito: People, Processes and Cultural Optics

Sessions

Saturday 7 July, 10:30-12:30Malaquais Site

409. Structural Analysis & Modeling 3 Room 104

Chair: Santiago HUERTA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Paula FUENTES, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

The Islamic Crossed-Arch Domes in Cordoba: Geometry and Structural Analysis of the “Capilla de Villaviciosa”

Fouad GHOMARI, Aboubekr Belkaid Univ., Tlemcen, Algeria

The Minaret of the Mosque of Mansourah: A Half-Ruin Elucidated

Maria Teresa COMO, Università degli studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, Italy

Structural Devices Concerning the Progressive Outer Shell Construction in Brunelleschi’s Dome

José Antonio GARCÍA ARES, Ignacio Javier GIL CRESPO, Polytechnic Univ. of Madrid, Spain

The Ciborium or Lantern Tower of Valencia Cathedral: Geometry, Construction and Stability

412. Transfer of Knowledge, Scientific Exchanges Room 302

Chair: Émilie D’ORGEIX, Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux / Ipraus-ENSA Paris-Belleville, France

Arturo ZARAGOZÁ CATALÁN, Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia, Spain, José CALVO-LÓPEZ, Pau NATIVIDAD-VIVÓ, Univ. Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain

Stereotomic Exchanges between Iberia and France in the 16th Century: Benoît Augier, Valencian Stairways and the Escalier de Toulouse

Hentie LOUW, SAPL Newcastle Univ., UK

‘Machine pour ouvrire une fenêtre par contre-poids’: A Case Study Revealing the Nature of Invention and Innovation in Late-17th Century Northern European Architecture

Fabio TELLIA, Jose Carlos PALACIOS GONZALO, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

The Squinch Vaults in Joseph Ribes’ Llibre De Trasas De Viax Y Muntea

Linnéa ROLLENHAGEN TILLY, HTTP-CNAM, Paris, France

Knowledge of Architecture and Building Technologies in 18th Century Sweden

422. Politics & PoliciesRoom 308

Chair: Torsten MEYER, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Roberto Eustaáquio dos SANTOS, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

The Plot of Concrete in Brazil: A History of the Technology Diffusion of Reinforced Concrete

Ricardo TOLOSA, Jorge GALINDO DÍAZ, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales branch, Manizales, Colombia

Construction of Railway Workshops in Colombia during the First Half of the 20th Century: A National Engineering Triumph

Christel FRAPIER, Architectural Historian, Paris, France

Conceiving the Industrialization of Construction in France in the 1950s

Felipe CONTIER, Renato L.S. ANELLI, Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil

The Material Genesis of an Icon: The Construction of the Building of FAU USP [1961-1969]

430. Innovations in Reinforced Concrete Lenoir 2

Chair: Thomas LESLIE, Iowa State University, USA

Armande HELLEBOIS, Yves RAMMER, Jean-Claude VERBRUGGE, Building, Architecture and Town Planning Dept., École Polytechnique de Bruxelles, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Concrete Piling: Major Developments in the Historical Practice of Pile Foundations

Alessandra BELLICOSO, Dept. of Architecture and Urban Planning, Univ. of L’Aquila, Italy

Technological Innovation and Traditional Building Methods in the First Application of Reinforced Concrete in L’Aquila: The “New Provincial Insane Asylum” [1903-1916]

John MCGUINNESS, Maidenhead, UK

Air Raid Shelters in the United Kingdom 1939-1945: An Initial Investigation

Pierre JARTOUX, Association Eugène Freyssinet

Eugene Freyssinet's Life and Works [1879 -1962]

431. Foundations & Masonry Room 103

Chair: Maria Grazia D’AMELIO, Università Tor Vergata, Italy

Francisco PINTO PUERTO, José María GUERRERO VEGA, Univ. of Seville, Spain

The Scaenae Frons of the Roman Theatre of Itálica: Notes on the Construction Process

Maud DE VOGHT, Krista DE JONGE, Univ. of Leuven, Belgium

Foundation Techniques in the Early Modern Low Countries [1600-1750]: A Problematic Case – St. Walpurgis in Antwerp

Philip S.C. CASTON, Neubrandenburg Univ. of Applied Sciences, Germany

The Pentagon Ramparts and Bastions of Fortress Rosenberg in Kronach, Germany

Antonia BRAUCHLE, Technische Universität Berlin and Stiftung LEUCOREA, Wittenberg, Germany

Cellars: Construction and Insulation through the Beginning of the 20th Century

437. Metal Structures 2 Room 206

Chair: Stefan M. HOLZER, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany

Bernhard HERES, Brandenburg Univ. of Technology, Cottbus, Germany

The Iron Structures in the Buildings of the State Hermitage St. Petersburg Erected 1838-1850: Forming Structures and Details in Early Structural Steelwork

Sergej FEDOROV, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Rebuilding St. Petersburg’s Winter Palace in the Context of Early European Steel Structures 1838-1850s: Contemporary Sources and Documents

Donald FRIEDMAN, Old Structures Engineering, New York City, NY, USA, Brian BOWEN, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

Two Crystal Palaces: Constructive Technology and Practice; Great Britain 1851 – United States 1853

Ines PROKOP, Berlin Univ. of the Arts, Germany

Wrought Iron and Steel Structures in Berlin in Their Prime from 1875 to 1925, with a Focus on Buildings for the Arts

439. Interior Environment, Heating, Ventilation & Hygiene Room 312

Chair: Joseph TOMLOW, Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz, Germany

Maaike VAN DER TEMPEL, Ine WOUTERS, Filip DESCAMPS, Dorien AERTS, Dept. of Architectural Engineering [ae-lab], Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Innovations in Ventilation: Wind Cowls in the 19th Century

Francesca TURRI, Emanuele ZAMPERINI, Building and Territorial Engineering Dept., Univ. of Pavia, Italy

The Military Engineers and Hygiene in Barracks in the Second Half of the 19th Century

Dirk VAN DE VIJVER, Univ. of Utrecht, Netherlands

Hygiene in Belgian Architecture: The Case of Victor Horta [1861-1947]

Emmanuelle GALLO, HTTP-CNAM / ENSA Paris-Belleville, France

Scientific Developments of Heating and Ventilation Professional Unions and Learned Societies in France during the First Part of the 20th Century

Saturday 7 July, 12:30 – 13:00Malaquais Site, Amphi 2

Closing Discussion

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