Papers

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  • Architectural Ceramic Assemblies

    • Paper by Omar Khan · Bill Pottle · Mitchell Bring

    This paper documents a six year academia/industry collaboration between researchers at the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo (SUNY)

  • Renewing Historic Facades

    • Paper by Christine Reynolds, PE · Hans Thummel, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    As the first phase of a $4 billion dollar, 180-acre, 60 building government preservation project in Washington DC, this case study reviews the

  • Preserving a Historic Facade

    • Paper by Maria Mohammed, S.E. · John Fidler, RIBA, Intl Assoc AIA, FRICS, FSA, FRSA, FIIC, FAPT

    Environmental and socio-economic benefits of sustainable preservation have become apparent most recently in the restoration of the historic former

  • Saving Face

    • Paper by Xsusha CarlyAnn Flandro, FAIC, APT-RP

    In 1871, a fourth level Architecture course was offered in New York City that instructed on topics such as heating, ventilation and circulation of

  • Paul Rudolph's Christian Science Building

    • Paper by Scott Murray

    This paper presents new historical research on the concrete facade of an important but relatively unknown and now demolished building by the American

  • Put Your Sweater On!

    • Paper by Eric Haas, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    During the particularly cold first months of 1977 President Jimmy Carter, in what some call “The Sweater Speech,” famously noted how much energy

  • Modern Heritage and Facade Improvements

    • Paper by Uta Pottgiesser · Angel Ayón

    Approximately 80% of our total building stock is from the 20th century. During the last decades, along with an increasing appreciation of modern

  • Renewing Two Saarinen Icons

    • Paper by David N. Fixler, FAIA · Gary Tondorf-Dick, AIA, LEED AP · Katherine S. Wissink, PE · Matthew B. Bronski, PE

    Kresge Auditorium and the MIT Chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen and built in 1955, are both world renowned works of architecture and powerful symbols