SCHEDULE

9th Biennial Meeting on Construction History

June 12-14, 2025

CONFERENCE SITE:

University of Virginia, School of Architecture

Campbell hall

SATURDAY, JUNE 14th

9:30 AM

Keynote Speaker

Reflections on the Death of Structural Rationalism

Edward Ford

ROOM 153

10:30 AM

Break

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM.

Concurrent Sessions

Session 10. Structural experimentation. 11:00 AM - 12:30 pm

Room 205

Moderator: Rob Whitehead

Susan Singh

“Suspended Solution: How Structural Innovation Helped Walgreens Redefine Depression-Era Miami"

Rob Whitehead

Otto the Educator: Structural Experimentation & American Architectural Pedagogy, 1950-1964

Tyler Sprague

Wind, Earthquakes and Computers: The Structural Design of the 1962 Seattle Space Needle

Mark Kuberski and Rachel Will

Supporting Chicago’s Historical Skyline: A Brief Examination of Building Foundation Evolution in Chicago

Session 11. Industrial ARCHITECTURE. 11:00 AM - 12:30 pm

Room 220B

Moderator: Libby Cook

Racheal Lute and Lurita McIntosh Blank

Lock 33: Celebrating Vestiges of the Hennepin Canal

Libby Cook

“What’s an Ion Chamber?”: The Construction History of the Experimental Breeder Reactor

Eric Bellin

Building with Exactitude: Interdisciplinary Knowledge Transfer in Manufacturing, Surveying, and Assembling the Foundations of the Crystal Palace

Session 12. Southern architecture. 11:00 AM - 12:30 pm

Room 220c

Moderator: Monica Silva-Contreras

Mónica Silva-Contreras

Tile vaults on steel beams: A "hidden" construction technique in Mexico City.

Sam Biggers and Casey T.D. Squyers

The Architectural Evolution of Berry Hill

Jeff Rosenberg

The rise in tourism: Resort Hotel Towers of Coastal Mississippi, 1920-1930

Donna Shebat and Asis Subedi

The Historic Construction of Memorial Gymnasium at the University of Virginia

12:30 - 1:30 PM

Closing Remarks

Moh Ismall