ABSTRACT
History of Construction Cultures Volume 1 contains papers presented at the 7ICCH – Seventh International Congress on Construction History, held at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Portugal, from 12 to 16 July, 2021. The conference has been organized by the Lisbon School of Architecture (FAUL), NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Portuguese Society for Construction History Studies and the University of the Azores. The contributions cover the wide interdisciplinary spectrum of Construction History and consist on the most recent advances in theory and practical case studies analysis, following themes such as: - epistemological issues; - building actors; - building materials; - building machines, tools and equipment; - construction processes; - building services and techniques ; -structural theory and analysis ; - political, social and economic aspects; - knowledge transfer and cultural translation of construction cultures. Furthermore, papers presented at thematic sessions aim at covering important problematics, historical periods and different regions of the globe, opening new directions for Construction History research. We are what we build and how we build; thus, the study of Construction History is now more than ever at the centre of current debates as to the shape of a sustainable future for humankind. Therefore, History of Construction Cultures is a critical and indispensable work to expand our understanding of the ways in which everyday building activities have been perceived and experienced in different cultures, from ancient times to our century and all over the world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |116 pages
Open session: Cultural translation of construction cultures
chapter |8 pages
On the construction of Byzantine vaulted systems through the eyes of the 19th century French rationalists
chapter |7 pages
Stability and construction of the 16th century Mexican rubble masonry vaults in Jiutepec Morelos
chapter |8 pages
Local interpretations of classical models: The architecture of San Antonio mission churches, Texas
chapter |8 pages
Tradition and invention in domestic construction in the Caribbean region: The case of Southern Puerto Rico
chapter |6 pages
Translating the “Chinese roof”: Construction culture hybridization in West China Union University
chapter |8 pages
Creating an American Methodist college in China: A building history of Soochow University, 1900–1937
chapter |8 pages
Technological development in the construction of Kasumigaseki Building: Japan's first super high-rise
part |38 pages
Thematic session: Form with no formwork (vault construction with reduced formwork)
chapter |7 pages
Brick vaulting without centering in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
chapter |8 pages
Types and uses of vaults and timbrel vaults in Interior Alentejo: Data for a typological study
chapter |6 pages
Forging the link among shape, formwork, and mortar assemblies in Guastavino vaulting
part |36 pages
Thematic session: Understanding the culture of building expertise in situations of uncertainty (Middle Age-Modern times)
chapter |9 pages
A building expert without building training: The city of Lisbon vedor of works (14th–19th centuries)
chapter |7 pages
To repair, renovate, or replace: A maintenance history of Virginia's state buildings
chapter |8 pages
Conflicts in the Brussels construction sector (1957–59): Judicial expertise of architects, engineers and contractors
part |56 pages
Thematic session: Historical timber constructions between regional tradition and supra-regional influences
chapter |8 pages
Timber floors made with elements shorter than the span covered in treatises and technical literature
chapter |8 pages
Design-Fabricate-Assemble-Marvel – 18th and early 19th century bridge models in the construction process
chapter |7 pages
Late 18th-century innovation: The first Mediterranean purlin roof truss in German-speaking Switzerland at Embrach ZH
chapter |6 pages
Philibert De l'Orme roof constructions in Leiden and The Netherlands, innovation versus tradition between 1800 and 1900
part |36 pages
Thematic session: Historicizing material properties: Between technological and cultural history
chapter |8 pages
Transparent acrylic constructions before and after 1950 – from the 1935 Opel Olympia to the 1972 Olympic roof
part |36 pages
Thematic session: South-South cooperation and non-alignment in the construction world, 1950–1980s
chapter |6 pages
Mostogradnja and Yugoslavia in Iraq: A bridge on the Euphrates near Fallujah (1964–1967)
chapter |6 pages
Indian immigration and building construction in the UAE: Beginnings of a pilot study
chapter |8 pages
An Indian engineer in the Middle East: South-South cooperation and professional collaboration in the 1970s
part |40 pages
Thematic session: Construction cultures of the recent past. Building materials and building techniques 1950–2000
part |42 pages
Thematic session: Hypar concrete shells. A structural, geometric and constructive revolution in the mid-20th century
chapter |6 pages
Félix Candela and the auditorium shell of the Maracaibo Country Club, Venezuela: A dual structural story
chapter |8 pages
The design and construction of Marcel Breuer's Hunter College Library hypars: Their origin and influences
chapter |9 pages
The collapse of the Tucker's gym: Research impulses in the USA at the end of hypar shells era
part |30 pages
Thematic session: Can Engineering culture be improved by Construction History?
chapter |6 pages
RBL through analysis of the development of high-rise buildings in Mexico City (1900–1952)
chapter |8 pages
The role of construction history in safety asessments: A case study of reinforced concrete “Gerber” bridges in Italy
part |24 pages
Open session: The discipline of Construction History
part |186 pages
Open session: Building actors
chapter |8 pages
The business of the early consulting engineer: The case of Thomas Telford (1815–1834)
chapter |8 pages
Modernization of civil construction in Brazil in the second half of the 19th century: Strategies of a local entrepreneur
chapter |8 pages
Brussels iron and steel builders in the 19th and 20th centuries: A macroeconomic and spatial exploration
chapter |8 pages
Building the Beaux-Arts in the Steel City: Pittsburgh's Rodef Shalom Synagogue, 1906–1907
chapter |7 pages
Industrialising timber craftsmanship: Early glulam within the traditional timber construction in Switzerland
chapter |8 pages
Luigi Santarella: Reinforced concrete design culture through the technical literature
chapter |7 pages
Entanglements within an emerging technology: Swiss Federal Railways and early glulam
chapter |8 pages
The Ghent Booktower (1933–1947): A product of collaborating professionals within institutional know-how
chapter |8 pages
Building the Estado Novo: Construction companies and public works in Portugal (1933–1974)
chapter |8 pages
Visionary engineering between utopia and futurism: Italian structures beyond borders after World War Two
chapter |8 pages
Italian tall buildings by Società Generale Immobiliare (SGI) in the 1950s–1960s: Some Milanese case studies
chapter |8 pages
The ‘exact fantasy’ of steel: The impossible mission of Costruzioni Metalliche Finsider (CMF)
chapter |7 pages
A concrete story: The 15-year collaboration between Harry Seidler and Pier Luigi Nervi, 1963–1978
chapter |9 pages
The “3-dimensional wall” of the Centre Pompidou in Paris: Invention and evolution of a polyvalent device
part |100 pages
Open session: Building materials: Their history, extraction, transformation and manipulation
chapter |7 pages
Wood as a building material in Toruń: A contribution to research on medieval carpentry art of Northern Poland
chapter |7 pages
The House of Mercy of Lourinhã: Contributions to the history of construction in the early 17th century
chapter |5 pages
Spatial and structural features of St Petersburg architecture in the 18th century: Transition from wood to brick
chapter |8 pages
Transition from wood to iron in French theatre structures: A new construction system
chapter |8 pages
Designing a ground-breaking structure: Notes on the cast-iron/wrought-iron dome of the former Halle au Blé, 1809–1813
chapter |5 pages
Impact of European knowledge on the development of reinforced concrete in the Russian Empire
chapter |6 pages
On horizontality in architecture: Robert Maillart, the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium and the evolution of the slab
chapter |8 pages
Hidden in the mix: How a regionally specific aggregate affected St. Louis Missouri's built environment
chapter |8 pages
A reinforced concrete stage tower within a 18th-century masonry theater: The Municipal Theater of Bologna
part |54 pages
Open session: Building machines, tools and equipment
chapter |7 pages
The tools of the Roman stone craftsman: The marks left on marble decorative elements in Valeria
chapter |7 pages
Quicker, cheaper, higher: A “new” French scaffolding system in the first half of the 20th century
chapter |7 pages
The emergence of electric arc welding in the construction and reinforcement of railway bridges in France, 1930s–1940s
part |12 pages
Thematic sessions