For Immediate Release: June 9, 2011
Media Contact: Marketing and Communication Department
Guastavino Vaulting Lecture
The Art of Structural Tile
WHO
John Ochsendorf, engineering professor at MIT, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and author of Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile
WHAT
Lecture: John Ochsendorf discusses the history of Guastavino vaults, which employ terra cotta tile and mortar to form self-supporting arches and domes. Guastavino vaulting is both visually and structurally appealing, and the lecture will take place in the National Museum of Natural History’s Baird Auditorium, a spectacular example of Guastavino vaulting. This lecture is presented as a collaboration between the National Building Museum and the Smithsonian Institution’s Architectural History and Historic Preservation Division. 1.0 LU (AIA)
WHERE 
National Museum of Natural History
Baird Auditorium
10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
WHEN
Saturday, June 18 / 11:00 am –12:00 pm
FREE. Registration not required. Held at the National Museum of Natural History.
Continuing education credits available: 1.0 LU (AIA)
CONTACT
Stacy Adamson, sadamson@nbm.org, 202.272.2448, ext. 3458
IMAGE
Tile vaulting, City Hall Subway Station, Guastavino Company for Heins and LaFarge, New York, New York, 1904. Photograph © Michael Freeman.
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