Cathedral of St. John the Divine New York, NY
City Hall Subway Station Heins and Lafarge, New York, NY
La Massa Theater Vilassar de Dalt, Spain
City Hall Subway Station Heins and Lafarge, New York, NY
Bronx Zoo, Elephant House New York, NY

Lecture at Cornell University
February 23, 2012; 6:15 pm; John Ochsendorf Lecture: Maestros de Obras Department of Architecture Spring 2012 Lecture Series Location: Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall Contact: Lindsay Lavine   (607) 255-7612   lpk7@cornell.edu John Ochsendorf is a structural engineer and historian of construction and an associate…

Lecture at The Elms in Newport, Rhode Island
March 1, 2012; 11:00 am; The Guastavino Family & the Creation of Great American Architecture This illustrated lecture presents the history and technology of Guastavino tile vaulting, which is found in hundreds of landmark works of American architecture, including several Newport buildings such as The…

Lecture at University of Utah
March 19, 2012; College of Architecture + Planning Check back for more details or go to: http://www.arch.utah.edu/news/?page_id=372…

Federal Grant Will Fund Exhibition on Visionary Architect at the Boston Public Library
Boston Public Library Press Release BOSTON — August 31, 2011 — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Boston Public Library, and their partners were recently awarded a federal grant to draw attention to an innovative builder and visionary architect whose…

The greatest architect you’ve never heard of
By Sam Allis Boston Globe Staff / February 26, 2011 American architects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries would often leave empty spaces in their blueprints and simply write, “Guastavino here.’’ They had faith that Rafael Guastavino would…

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Since the time of ancient Rome, architects, engineers, and builders have struggled with the problem of building domed ceilings over large spaces. No one was more skilled at this than the Rafael Guastavino family, a father and son team of Spanish immigrants who oversaw the construction of thousands of spectacular thin-tile vaults across the United States between the 1880s and the 1950s. These versatile, strong, and fireproof vaults were built by Guastavino in more than two hundred major buildings...(click to read more)

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    This book has been made possible with support from the J. William Fulbright Foundation; the Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) Fund of MIT; the Furthermore Program, a division of the J.M. Kaplan Fund; the Graham Foundation; the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); the American Academy in Rome; and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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