13th Annual Sidney A. Guralnick Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship Awards Luncheon and Lecture
Join the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department at 12 pm on Friday, April 15, 2016, for the 13th Annual Sidney A. Guralnick Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship Awards Luncheon and Lecture. During the event Antony Wood, Director of CTBUH at Illinois Tech College of Architecture, will deliver his lecture Tall Buildings: Global Trends, Drivers, Challenges.
Tickets for the luncheon are $55 per person. A table for 8 guests can be sponsored for $650. Purchase tickets here, by Monday, April 11, 2016. One professional development hour (PDH) certificate will be awarded to attendees.
Abstract
The global boom in tall building construction over the past two decades is unprecedented in the history of mankind. At the same time, many characteristics of high-rise construction have changed fundamentally from what they were for most of the twentieth century. The presentation will chart a number of emergent trends (height, number, location, function, material, motivation, and aesthetics) as well as the drivers for these trends/changes (land prices and return on investment, global icons, population growth, urbanization, changing social demographics, population shifts, and energy, sustainability, and climate change). It will also look at the current issues and growing challenges of tall building development. Against a backdrop of the large-scale homogenization of cities architecturally around the world, the presentation will suggest ten design principles which, if adopted in skyscraper design, could result in tall buildings that are more appropriate to the place in which they are located—physically, environmentally, culturally, socially, and economically. In doing this, it will promote the need for a new vernacular for the skyscraper in each region of the world, and this would have significant ecological, as well as social, benefits
Speaker Bio
Antony Wood has been executive director of the CTBUH since 2006, responsible for the day-to-day running of the council. Based at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Wood is also a research professor in the College of Architecture and a visiting professor of tall buildings at Tongji University, Shanghai. His field of specialty is the design, in particular the sustainable design, of tall buildings. His Ph.D. explored the multi-disciplinary aspects of skybridge connections between tall buildings.
About Sidney A. Guralnick
Sidney Guralnick, Perlstein Distinguished Professor of Engineering Emeritus, has taught in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology since 1958 and has inspired countless students. Throughout his 50+ years with the university, he has also served as coordinator of the structures group, dean of the graduate college, provost, executive vice president, and member of the Board of Trustees. In addition to his dedication to the university, he served as president of the Structural Association of Illinois. Guralnick is considered one of the leading experts on concrete materials, metal fatigue, plastic collapse, incremental collapse, and shakedown of framed structures in steel and in reinforced concrete.