Información General

• Autores: James W.P. Campbell (dir. congr.)
• Editores: Construction History Society
• Año de publicación: 2014
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-0-9928751-0-7
• Recoge los contenidos presentados a: Construction History Society (Ascot, Gran Bretaña). Conference (1. 2014).
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Resumen

• This volume collects together the papers delivered at the first annual conference of the Construction History Society, held in Queens' College, Cambridge in 2014. Papers cover a wide range of topics all on the common theme of the history of construction, from the ancient world to the present day.

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Listado de artículos

• • The early German production and use of modern hydraulic binders: between English influences and the search for a scientific approach, 1817-1839

    Salvatore Aprea

    págs. 1-8

    

  • Form v function: the structural development of early fifteenth-century hammer-beam roofs

    Robert Beech

    págs. 9-15

    

  • Some examples of structural innovation in the construction of English churches in the long nineteenth century

    Paul W. R. Bell

    págs. 17-24

    

  • "Fabric wardens" and the organisation of parish church construction in the late Middle Ages

    Gabriel Byng

    págs. 25-34

    

  • Strategies for the accord of Gothic and Classical stone construction systems in 16th- and 17th-century buildings in Northern Spain

    Alberto Calderón González

    págs. 35-46

    

  • Pier Luigi Nervi vs Fazlur Khan: the developing of the outrigger system for skycrapers

    Luciano Cardellicchio

    págs. 47-57

    

  • A digital edition of the didactic knowledge of construction: a critical edition of the courses of Antoine Desgodts, professor at the Académie Royale d'Architecture (Paris, 1719-1928)

    Robert Carvais

    págs. 59-69

    

  • Building material migration: imported brick and localization in Taiwan in the seventeenth century

    Yu-sen Chou, Dimitris Theodossopoulos

    págs. 71-80

    

  • Building by Direct Labour: the significance of Direct Labour Organisations (DLOs) in the provision of public housing in the UK 1890-1980

    Linda Clarke

    págs. 81-90

    

  • Knowledge transfer of vernacular finishing techniques in the interwar period: on the history of cimorné render

    Liesbeth Dekeyser, Ann Verdonck

    págs. 91-100

    

  • Hang the roof: building the aerial site

    Christopher Domin

    págs. 101-112

    

  • Construction history and alteration of the oak roof structure of the Sidney Sussex College Hall

    Patrick Fleming, Sofia A. Singler, Michael Ramage

    págs. 113-120

    

  • The traditional wooden shipyards on the northwest coast of Spain

    Óscar Fuertes Dopico, Joaquín Fernández Madrid

    págs. 121-130

    

  • Some instances of arch and vaulting construction at the New York Public Library

    José Antonio García Ares, Fabio Tellia

    págs. 131-143

    

  • Two Egyptian curves revisited

    John Gelder

    págs. 145-156

    

  • Aproposal for cataloguing the building techniques in Roman-Byzantin and Islamic Jordanian Hawran

    Piero Gilento

    págs. 157-167

    

  • The transformation of Drumlanrig Castle at the end of seventeenth-century

    Cristina González Longo

    págs. 169-180

    

  • The introduction of ready-mix rendering mortars for stone imitation in Belgium (1920-1940)

    Yves Govaerts, Ann Verdonck, Michel de Bouw, Wendy Meulebroeck

    págs. 181-190

    

  • The evolution of building techniques in the Italian Alpine context from the 1950s-1960s: the case of the Church in Corte di Cadore by Edoardo Gellner and Carlo Scarpa (1956-1961)

    Laura Greco

    págs. 191-199

    

  • A history of structural defects and repairs, the Iron Bridge, Shropshire

    Jackie Heath, James Miller

    págs. 201-208

    

  • Wren's domes

    Jacques Heyman

    págs. 209-218

    

  • Mixing concrete: remarks on the early history of modern concrete

    Stefan M. Holzer

    págs. 219-230

    

  • The British cut clasp nail

    Chris How

    págs. 231-238

    

  • The developer, the builder, his contractors and their tradesmen

    Conor Lucey

    págs. 239-248

    

  • Dreaming of a cementless future: the story of silicalcite

    Maris Mändel

    págs. 249-256

    

  • Transferring contruction technology and conflicts of interest: a century ago

    Robert C. McWilliam

    págs. 257-262

    

  • Spatial unification of Romanesque churches in Zamora and its influence on the buttress system

    Francisco Javier Rodríguez Méndez

    págs. 263-272

    

  • Surviving late payments: strategies of Christopher Wren's masons from Burford

    Melody Mobus

    págs. 273-279

    

  • Concrete platforms in the North Sea: a golden era for development of advanced concrete structures

    Jan Moksnes

    págs. 281-288

    

  • Timber hyperbolic lattice structures: Shukhov revisited

    Ekaterina Nozhova

    págs. 289-299

    

  • Old Ennisnag Bridge

    Dermot O'Dwyer, Ronald Cox

    págs. 301-311

    

  • John Rennie's Dublin cast-iron trusses

    Dermot O'Dwyer, Jay Cummins, Ronald Cox

    págs. 313-322

    

  • Timber supply in colonial China, 1840-1940

    Yiting Pan, James W.P. Campbell

    págs. 323-332

    

  • Stretched templates in Gothic tas-de-charge construction

    Carmen Pérez de los Ríos, Enrique Rabasa Díaz

    págs. 333-342

    

  • Robert Willis' contribution to understanding the Gothic Flamboyant style

    Elena Pliego de Andrés, Alberto Sanjurjo Álvarez

    págs. 343-353

    

  • Dante Bini's air structures (1964-1979): from early Italian prototypes to the Australian experience

    Alberto Pugnale, Alberto Bologna

    págs. 355-365

    

  • Lean principles in the design and construction of the Empire State Building

    Kenneth F. Robson, Somik Ghosh

    págs. 367-376

    

  • Accoustic design in the 1930s: Robinson and Keefe's Church of Corpus Christi, Dublin

    Fiona Smyth

    págs. 377-389

    

  • New technologies for a new society: German museum architecture after 1945

    Benedetta Stoppioni

    págs. 391-402

    

  • Stone barrel vaulting in late medieval churches in Scotland

    Dimitris Theodossopoulos

    págs. 403-412

    

  • An alpine hydroelectric site: works for the utilisation of hydraulic resources in Alta Valtellina 1907-1930

    Francesco Carlo Toso

    págs. 413-422

    

  • The emergence of a new generation of building products in post-war Belgium: the case of lightweight concrete

    Stephanie Van de Voorde, Inge Bertels, Ine Wouters

    págs. 423-433

    

  • Recording the "building world": how oral history transforms construction history

    Christine Wall

    págs. 435-443

    

  • "Ich traue der reinen Rechnung nicht, wenn diese nicht am Modell überpr¨ft werden kann (I cannot trust the pure calculation, if this cannot be verified with a model)": Frei Otto and model testing

    Christiane Weber

    págs. 445-457

    

  • The vault with curvilinear ribs in the "Hall of Arms" in the Albrechtsburg Meissen: studies on the concept, design and construction of a complex late Gothic rib vault

    David Wendland, María Aranda Alonso, Alexander Kobe

    págs. 459-468

    

  • Production and assembly marks in wrought iron structures

    Ine Wouters, Inge Bertels

    págs. 469-474

    

  • The construction and structure of medieval gates

    David Yeomans, Hugh Harrison

    págs. 475-482