Eighth Annual Conference on Construction History, August 2021

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