8th Annual Conference of the Construction History Society
On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 August 2021, the CHS conference will be held online. Attendance is free and registration is not required.
by
Manuel Maissen
This year, the CHS conference will be held on the general theme of "Building Trades and Professionalism". In addition, there will again be numerous reports from current research. The following contributions will be presented by members of the Chair of Building Research and Construction History:
- Stefan M. Holzer: How to build a Dome (Friday, Session 1)
- Manuel Maissen: Late Gothic Vaulting in the Canton of Grisons, Switzerland (Friday, Session 5)
- Clemens Knobling: Vaults Without Buttresses: A Survey Of Swiss Roodscreens (Friday, Session 5)
- Louis Vandenabeele: Medieval formwork imprints in the Basilica of St Anthony in Padua (Saturday, Session 13)
- Martina Diaz: Contextualisation of the timber trade between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries in the Basilica of St Anthony, Padua (Saturday, Session 15)
Attendance at the conference is free and no registration is required: zoom links to the individual sessions are printed in the external page programme booklet Further information can be found on the external page Construction History Society website