[MassHistPres] Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile

[Dennis De Witt]

This should be a highly knowledgable talk on a fascinating subject: The structural system that spanned the seemingly unbridgeable gulf between Gaudi and McKim Mead & White.

Dennis De Witt



Author Series
Boston Public Library

Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile
Princeton Architectural Press, 2010

John Ochsendorf
MIT Department of Architecture

6:00 PM
Wednesday, November 10, 2011
Boston Public Library, Copley Square

The Rafael Guastavino family, a father and son team of Spanish immigrants, oversaw the construction of thousands of spectacular thin-tile vaults across the United States between the 1880s and the 1950s, including Grand Central Terminal, Carnegie Hall, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and the Registry Hall at Ellis Island. Their first major American project was the Boston Public Library's McKim Building, paving the way for hundreds of other significant Guastavino buildings across the country. The book Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile is a study of their work, which sheds new light on the history of American architecture and the vital role of the Boston Public Library.

John Ochsendorf is an engineer and educator specializing in the history and technology of masonry buildings. Ochsendorf is associate professor of architecture and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and is a recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, and a MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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