The Association of Preservation Technology, Western Great Lakes Chapter (APT WGLC) and the Construction History Society of America (CHSA) will hold a collaborative 2019 Symposium Preservation of Industrial Archaeology and its Construction History in Chicago, IL on May 17, 2019. This program will offer a single track, intermingling the two disciplines of preservation technology and construction history and focused on subjects related to industrial construction during the 19th C. in the mid-west.
The keynote address, Chicago’s Other Skyscrapers, will be given by Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University. Author of Beauty’s Rigor: Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi (University of Illinois Press, 2017), Chicago Skyscrapers 1871 – 1934 (University of Illinois Press, 2013), and Louis I. Kahn: Building Art, Building Science (George Braziller Press, 2005).