Post Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering
The Third Columbia Conference on Architecture, Engineering and Materials

Convened by:
The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation,
Columbia University, Mark Wigley, Dean / www.arch.columbia.edu

In collaboration with:
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
Columbia University, Christian Meyer, Chair / http://www.civil.columbia.edu

Exclusive Sponsor:
The Steel Institute of New York and the Ornamental Metal Institute of New York / http://www.siny.org
and
The American Institute of Steel Construction / http://www.aisc.org

Media Sponsor: Architect's Newspaper / http://www.archpaper.com

About the Organizing Institutions

The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (GSAPP) offers six master's degree programs: Master of Architecture, Master of Science Advanced Architectural Design, Architecture and Urban Design, Urban Planning, Historic Preservation, and Real Estate Development. With an enrollment of 650 students from some 55 countries, the School serves as a leading laboratory for testing new ideas about the environmental designer's role in a global society. It cultivates an atmosphere in which all of the disciplines devoted to the built environment are invited to think differently, to move beyond the highest level of professional training, opening a creative space within which the disciplines can re-think themselves in order to find new settings and new forms of professional, scholarly, technical, and ethical practice. www.arch.columbia.edu

The Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics is one of nine departments in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University. Offering undergraduate programs in civil engineering and engineering mechanics, it provides students with a firm technical basis while nurturing decision-making and leadership potential. The civil engineering program, accredited by ABET, has four concentrations: structural engineering; geotechnical engineering; construction engineering and management; and water resources and environmental engineering. On the graduate level, the department offers programs leading to the MS degree, the professional degrees of Civil Engineer or Mechanics Engineer, and the Doctor of Engineering Science (EngScD) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees. These programs are flexible and allow for concentrations in structures, construction engineering, reliability and random processes, soil mechanics, fluid mechanics, hydrogeology, continuum mechanics, finite element methods, computational mechanics, experimental mechanics, acoustics, vibrations and dynamics, and earthquake engineering, or any combination thereof, such as fluid-structure interaction. www.civil.columbia.edu

About the Exclusive Sponsors

The Steel and Ornamental Metal Institutes of New York

The Steel and Ornamental Metal Institutes of New York are not-for-profit associations created in 1972 to advance the interests of the structural steel and the architectural, ornamental, and miscellaneous metal construction industries. Serving a geographical area encompassing New York City and adjacent Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties, each sponsors programs to aid architects, engineers, and construction managers in selecting structural systems and architectural metals for optimum performance. Programs in which the Institutes are engaged include: consultations extending to preliminary design and cost analyses for alternative structural, curtain wall and architectural metal finish systems; seminars covering designing for economy and performance in structural frames, curtain walls, and in the use of alloys and surface treatments for miscellaneous iron work; representation before government bodies in matters of laws, codes and regulations affecting the industry; granting of subsidies to architecture and engineering schools; and funding of research related to the advancement of the industry.

www.siny.org
www.ominy.org

The American Institute of Steel Construction

The American Institute of Steel Construction, headquartered in Chicago, is a not-for-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry. AISC's mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural steel-related technical and market-building activities, including: specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, and market development. AISC has a long tradition of service to the steel construction industry of providing timely and reliable information.

www.aisc.org

The Columbia Conference on Architecture, Engineering and Materials Scientific Committee Members

Jean-Louis Cohen
Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture,
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Laurie Hawkinson
Professor, The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation,
Columbia University

Juan Herreros
Professor, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid

Gary Higbee
Director of Industrial Development
The Steel Institute of New York and the Ornamental Metal Institute of New York

Christian Meyer
Chair and Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
Columbia University

Antoine Picon
Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Graduate School of Design,
Harvard University

Jesse Reiser
Professor, School of Architecture,
Princeton University

Werner Sobek
Professor and Director, Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design, University of Stuttgart

Mark Wigley
Dean, The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation,
Columbia University

Michael Bell
Professor, The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation,
Columbia University, Conference Chair