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Iowa State University, VIsiting Professor | Des Moines, United States
Thomas Leslie, FAIA, is the Morrill Professor in Architecture at Iowa State University, where he teaches building history, technology, and design, and an Adjunct Professor at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. He is the author of Louis I. Kahn: Building Art, Building Science (Braziller, 2006); Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934 (Illinois, 2013); and Beauty's Rigor: Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi (Illinois, 2017).
Annual Conference, Presenter (Chicago 2019)
First Skyscrapers Symposium, Steering Committee (2019)
Crown Hall Roundtable – Research Chicago: Tall Buildings
03 October 2015
03 October 2015
S. R. Crown Hall Roundtable: Tall Buildings
IIT Architecture hosted a series of four roundtables on October 2nd and 3rd to celebrate the opening of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The third roundtable...
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01 March 2020
“Buildings Without Walls:” A Tectonic Case for Two “First” Skyscrapers
Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University
“A practical architect might not unnaturally conceive the idea of erecting a vast edifice whose frame should be entirely of iron, and clothing the frame--preserving...
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05 February 2018
Reconstruction as Research: Digital Modeling of Key Postwar Skyscrapers
Saranya Panchaseelan, Shawn Barron & Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University; Paolo Orlando, substance architecture
The 2016 CTBUH Student Research Funding Program, kindly sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories, allowed researchers to use digital reconstructions from extant drawings and publications to research...
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03 October 2015
S. R. Crown Hall Roundtable: Tall Buildings
IIT Architecture hosted a series of four roundtables on October 2nd and 3rd to celebrate the opening of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The third roundtable...
01 March 2020
“Buildings Without Walls:” A Tectonic Case for Two “First” Skyscrapers
Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University
“A practical architect might not unnaturally conceive the idea of erecting a vast edifice whose frame should be entirely of iron, and clothing the frame--preserving...
05 February 2018
Reconstruction as Research: Digital Modeling of Key Postwar Skyscrapers
Saranya Panchaseelan, Shawn Barron & Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University; Paolo Orlando, substance architecture
The 2016 CTBUH Student Research Funding Program, kindly sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories, allowed researchers to use digital reconstructions from extant drawings and publications to research...
07 November 2013
The Monadnock Building, Technically Reconsidered
Thomas Leslie, Iowa State University
Far from being the world’s last and largest “masonry skyscraper,” the Monadnock was a profoundly transitional structural achievement, making important advances in steel construction while...
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