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Past Symposia, Colloquia and Conferences

This page is under construction as the comprehensive lists are being compiled as part the development of the full history of the Association.  For links to obtain the proceedings of recent symposia, see the list here.

Past Annual Symposia

Year City Country Symposia Themes
2011 London UK IABSE-IASS 2011: Taller, Longer, Lighter 
2010 Shanghai China Spatial Structures - Temporary and Permanent   
2009 Valencia Spain IASS 50th Anniversary: Evolutions and Trends in Design, Analysis and Construction of Shell and Spatial Structures
2008 Acapulco Mexico New Materials and Technologies - New Designs and Innovations
2007 Venice Italy Architectural Engineering - Toward the Future Looking to the Past
2006 Beijing China New Olympics, New Shells and Spatial Structures
2005 Bucharest Romania Theory, Technique, Valuation, Maintenance
2004 Montpellier France Shell and Spatial Structures: From Models to Realization
2003 Taipei Taiwan New Perspectives for Shell and Spatial Structures
2002 Warsaw Poland Lightweight Structures in Civil Engineering - Contemporary Problems
2001 Nagoya Japan Theory, Design and Realization of Shell and Spatial Structures
2000 Istanbul Turkey Bridging Large Spans from Antiquity to the Present
1999 Madrid Spain Shells and Spatial Structures: From Recent Past to the Next Millenium [40th Anniversary Symposium]
1998 Sidney Australia Lightweight Structures in Architecture and Engineering
1997 Singapore Singapore Shell and Spatial Structures: Design, Construction, Performance and Economics
1996 Stuttgart Germany Conceptual Design of Structures
1995 Milan Italy Spatial Structures: Heritage, Present and Future
1994 Atlanta USA Spatial, Lattice and Tension Structures
1993 Istanbul Turkey Public Assembly Structures
1992 Toronto Canada Innovative Large Span Structures
1991 Copenhagen Denmark Spatial Structures at the Turn of the Millennium
1990 Dresden Germany Spatial Structures: Quality Control, Rehabilitation and New Construction
1989 Madrid Spain 10 Years of Progress in Shell and Spatial Structures [30th Anniversary Symposium]

 

Past Working Group Colloquia

Year Working Group

Colloquia

2009 Sub WG 15: "Free Form Design" 1st International Symposium on Distributed Intelligence in Design. Manchester, UK
2009 WG 12: "Timber Spatial Structures" Timber Strucutures from Antiquity to the Present. Istambul, Turkey
2009 WG 4: "Masts and Towers" Masts and Towers.  Helsinki, Finland
2008 WG 15: "Structural Morphology" 6th Structural Morphology Colloquia. Acapulco, Mexico
2008 WG 13: "Computational Methods" IASS-IACM 2008: The 6th International Conference on Computation of Shell and Spatial Structures. Ithaca, USA
2007 WG 4: "Masts and Towers" Masts and Towers.  Montreal, Canada
2007 WG 17: "Historical Structures" Symposium on Studies on History and Heritage.  Antalya, Turkey
2006 Sub-WG 13: "Computational Morphogenesis" International Workshop on Computational Morphogenesis.  Nagoya, Japan
2006 Sub-WG 15: "Free Form Design" Workshop on Free Form Design.  Delft, The Netherlands
2006 WG 18: "Environmentally Compatible Shell and Spatial Structures and Structural Materials (ECS)" 6th IASS-WG18 ECS Seminar.  Prague, Czech Republic  
2005 WG 13: "Computational Methods in Shell and Spatial Structures" IASS-IACM 2005: 5th Intl. Conference on Computation of Shell and Spatial Structures. Salzburg, Austria   
2005 WG 4: "Masts and Towers" Masts and Towers.  Moscow, Russia 
2004 WG 3: "Cooling Towers" 5th Intl. Symposium on Natural Draught Cooling Towers.  Istanbul, Turkey 
2004 WG 15: "Structural Morphology" 5th Structural Morphology.  Montpellier, France
2004  WG 18: "Environmentally Compatible Shell and Spatial Structures and Structural Materials (ECS)"

5th IASS-WG18 ECS Seminar.  Prague, Czech Republic     

 

Past Other Conferences Sponsored by IASS

Year

Conference

Dates and Place

2010 2nd International Conference on Solar Power Tower Technology 28-30 September. Bochum, Germany
2010 Steel Structures: Culture & Sustainability 20-22 September. Istanbul, Turkey
2009 Lightweight Structures in Civil Engineering 4 December. Warsaw, Poland
2009 Steel Structures: Culture & Sustainability 25-27 June. Istambul, Turkey
2009 The 2nd International Conference on Technology of Architecture and Structure 15-17 October. Shanghai, China
2009 Timber Spatial Structures from Antiquity to Present 25-27 June. Istambul, Turkey
2007 Structural Engineers World Congress 2-7 November. Bangalore, India
2007 The 10th World Conference on Seismic Isolation 28-31 May.  Istanbul
2005 The Conceptual Approach to Structural Design 25-26 August. Singapore
2005 The 2nd Latin American Symposium on Tension Structures 4-6 May. Caracas, Venezuela

 

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