SCHEDULE
9th Biennial Meeting on Construction History
June 12-14, 2025
CONFERENCE SITE:
University of Virginia, School of Architecture
Campbell hall
FRIDAY, JUNE 13th
8:30 AM
Construction History Society of America - Business Meeting - Breakfast.
ROOM 153
9:30 AM
Keynote Speaker
PURDY & HENDERSON IN CUBA – a design and construction revolution
Beatriz Del Cueto
ROOM 153
10:30 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM.
Concurrent Sessions
Session 7. Technological developments. 11:00 AM - 12:30 pm
ROOM 205
Moderator: Alicia Svenson
Priya Pancha and Daniel Cook
Development of ACI Concrete Testing Standards and Certifications in the United States.
Robert Weinstein
From Rags to Roofing.
Erin Putalik
Architectural Modernism and Agricultural Recovery: Cotton, Chemurgy, and the plan to “Farm for Building Materials” in 1930s America.
Kristin Potterton
Modern Timber: The Technological Development of Glued Laminated Wood in the American West
Alicia Svenson
The “Ideal” Brick Wall: Testing Masonry at the National Bureau of Standards, 1920-1940.
Session 8. Experiencing construction history. 11:00 AM - 12:30 pm
ROOM 220B
Moderator: Clifton Fordham
Thomas Stroka
Indiana Limestone in Classical Buildings Today
Anne Werner
Building Techniques, Methods and Materials in the City of Edwardsville, Illinois during the early 19th Century
Marci Uihlein
“These Great Canyons”: Nineteenth-Century Chicago and the Experiences of the New Skyscrapers
Clifton Fordham
The Knights of Columbus Building: A Study of Drawings for Construction
Session 9. Climate and design. 11:00 AM - 12:30 pm
Room 220C
Moderator: Andrew Cruse
Andrew Cruse
The Crystal Palace of Shade
Judith Capen
Too Hot, Too Cold, Never Just Right: Making Life Easier in Late 19th c. Row Houses in Washington, DC
Jeana Ripple
New York's Codification of a Health and Hydrology Crisis
Donna Shebat and Asis Subedi
The Historic Construction of Memorial Gymnasium at the University of Virginia
