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Keynote Lecture

Judy Stephenson

Day Work, Task Work and Watch Work: Labourers at St Paul’s Cathedral 1672-1748

https://youtu.be/GODfrBHGebA

 

Professor Sir Roderick Floud FBA FACSS

 

 

Constructing Landscapes: an Economic History of the English Garden

https://youtu.be/3XEfO7i85T8

**No paper**

 

Ancient World (pre-1000AD)

John Gelder

The Documentation of Stonework in the Ancient World

https://youtu.be/EIOJF-DC_Ik

 

John Gelder

Professional Roles in Greek Construction Contracts

https://youtu.be/Urh7XeeK624

 

James WP Campbell

The Development of Water Pipes: a Brief Introduction from Ancient Times until the Industrial Revolution

https://youtu.be/BDC1fI57sLU

 

Ana Rosado-Torres, Laura Gilabert-Sansalvador &  Riccardo Montuori

Stonecutting in Maya Architecture: The Palace of the Governor at Uxmal (Yucatan, Mexico)

https://youtu.be/HPFfnS6uocM

 

 

 

 

Medieval World (1000 CE – 1400 CE)

Alexandra M. Gutiérrez-Hernández

The Art du Trait in the Monastery of La Vid in Burgos (Spain)

https://youtu.be/tpFVuvDtfcw

 

Giuseppe Mazzone

Through the Layers of Time – The Evolution of Interlaced Ribbed Domes from Islamic Spain to the Italian Baroque

https://youtu.be/eQVV-NLVLKA

 

Claudio Mazzanti & Federico Bulfone Gransinigh

 

Medieval watchtowers of the mountainous areas of the Abruzzi Region: typologies, construction techniques and territorial landscape

https://youtu.be/NVz1KttmR_8

 

Rocío Maira-Vidal

Two Masters, Two Methods. First Steps Towards English Standardisation in The Construction of The Sexpartite Vaults in Canterbury Cathedral

https://youtu.be/RYf3ljdntHY

Louis Vandenabeele

Medieval formwork imprints in the Basilica of St Anthony in Padua

https://youtu.be/YS0T_0hX3dw

 

 

 

Renaissance and Late Gothic World (1400-1600)

Sofia Celli & Federica Ottoni

From construction to maintenance. The history of the wooden chain encircling the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore

https://youtu.be/9Z-oOJxiYyw

 

Manuel Maissen

Late Gothic Vaulting in the Canton of Grisons, Switzerland

https://youtu.be/h9A4wQyr7Zg

 

Clemens Knobling

Vaults Without Buttresses: A Survey of Swiss Roodscreens

https://youtu.be/GvAJ8BfQ4Ws

 

Caterina F Carocci, Renata Finocchiaro & Valentina Macca

The so-called ‘Palazzetto’ in the Palazzo di Venezia Complex: A small construction history among the huge transformation events of the Rome centre in the early twentieth century

https://youtu.be/uKPs7oTUkKk

Martina Diaz

Contextualisation of the timber trade between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries in the Basilica of St Anthony, Padua

https://youtu.be/H4Il1or78XQ

 

Bruno Bentz

On The Origins of Hydro-Technics: The Gardens of Noisy (1570)

https://youtu.be/kAjYygYva8E

 

 

 

The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1600-1800)

Stefan M. Holzer

How to Build a Dome

https://youtu.be/SbjHbzV63gE

 

Gabriel Pirlet, Guido Schumacher & Jean-Louis Vanden Eynde

Ornamental Hydraulics in the Arenberg Park of Enghien in the 17th Century: a possible link to Salomon de Caus

https://youtu.be/95Vn-STfcc8

 

Dermot O'Dwyer

William Colles (1702-1770) Kilkenny Mayor, Entrepreneur, and Marble Necromancer

https://youtu.be/PXdkng0TWaA

 

Cinta Lluis-Teruel, Iñigo Ugalde-Blázquez, Josep Lluis i Ginovart & Zahra Hadji

The Behaviour of Tile Vaulted Structures in Spanish Military Engineering

https://youtu.be/WLSZqPTKiCY

 

Nicholas A. Bill

Pioneering Education for a Unique Engineering Profession – British Military Engineers

https://youtu.be/imtedRoyzEI

 

Robert Carvais

The social status of Parisian building contractors in the 18th century. A hierarchical and ambitious professional "body" : between nobility and destitution

https://youtu.be/C_Lbdk0uPwc

 

 

 

Long Nineteenth Century (1800-1914)

Geraldine Buchenau & Sabine Kuban

Time to Re-Evaluate? – New Findings on the Application of the Hennebique System in Germany

https://youtu.be/rj2H6oySqxQ

 

Clifton Ellis

Agrarian Capitalism and The Cost of Building in Antebellum Virginia

https://youtu.be/1rh7vTrq1_Y

 

Gian Marco Prisco

The Madrid-Delicias Railway Station: between formal and technological innovation in the 19th century Iberian Peninsula

https://youtu.be/dAkXmr2QYus

 

Antonio Burgos Núñez, & Maxwell Adrian Kite

Plate Girder Bridges in Andalusia, 1850-1910. The Spread of an Unusual Genre of Iron Bridges

https://youtu.be/2dpsxSjEsO0

 

Saniye Feyza Yagci Ergun and Manfred Schuller

Timber frame system after the western influence on the houses of Istanbul

https://youtu.be/dQs1wTTbOvM

 

 

Chelsea Spencer

Faulty Figures and Paper Technologies: Cost Estimating in Late Nineteenth-Century America

 https://youtu.be/mQYBBiPPXQU

 

Nick von Behr

The Influence of Standards and Regulations for Steel and Reinforced Concrete on the Development of Modern Architecture in Pre-WW1 Paris and Brussels

https://youtu.be/aUignJjfHGQ

 

Campolongo, Alessandro & Guagliardi, Valentina

Architecture and building traditions in the territory of Cosenza: the 1910 Colonia Silana

https://youtu.be/b6ho7s7EtOA

 

 

 

 

The Twentieth Century (1900-2000)

Nina Baker

Development of the UK Government’s support for Construction-related Research in the 20th Century: the role of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research

Video will follow

 

David Yeomans

Not Just the Dirty Work: engineers' contributions to architecture

https://youtu.be/OC_bd8P77I4

 

Maria Mestre-Martí, Pedro M. Jiménez-Vicario & Manuel A. Ródenas-López

The History of the Construction of the Cuban National Capitol

https://youtu.be/RgKwPZGh7cU

 

Nina Baker

Women engineers in UK construction research establishments in the mid-20th century. A preliminary survey

https://youtu.be/LsbzXwJWDqQ

 

Laura Greco

Construction Standardisation in Italian Service Stations (1930s-1950s). Projects by Luigi Piccinato and Mario Bacciocchi

https://youtu.be/YWTnHWe6Zqs

 

 

Vladimir Ladinski

 

A Century of Professionalism in Construction in North Macedonia (1920-2020)

Video will follow

Maryia Rusak

From ‘Workers’ to ‘Operators’: Labour of Moelven Brug

https://youtu.be/vYl0FUC-Q9s

 

David Yeomans

Frank Newby’s Star Beams

https://youtu.be/VNGIjGcirqQ

 

Francesco Spada

Società Generale Immobiliare (SGI) Prefabrication Methods for Italian School Buildings in 1960s

https://youtu.be/19_i_-sCQ-A

 

Shuntaro Nozawa & Yosuke Komiyama

High Tech Attitude as a Corrective of Japanese Industrialised Housing: The Work and Discourses of Kohko Takahashi

https://youtu.be/-Kuv9TIE1eA

 

Ilaria Giannetti

Experimental structures and reinforced concrete in church building in Italy: design and construction of three hyperbolic paraboloids (1961-68)

https://youtu.be/J-BHDd8G6G4