A Culture of Construction: Technical Thought and Theory in Architecture and Engineering

Wednesday, Feb.  22, 2006 @ 7:30 p.m.
The Forum

Tom Peters
Lehigh University

Tom Peters is a professor of Architecture and History and director of the Building and Architectural Technology Institute at Lehigh University. He received his Dr. Sch. Techn. degree at ETH Zurich. His books include Transitions in Engineering (1988) and Building the Nineteenth Century (1996), and he has also written articles on building technology and technological thought as a creative endeavor. His current research on the development of the skyscraper in Chicago is to be published as a historical novel.