Morrill Professor

Thomas Leslie FAIA

Morrill Professor, Architecture

Education

BSAS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1989
MArch, Columbia University, 1992

On the Web

http://https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-leslie-96615514/

Research Interests

The integration of building sciences and arts both historically and in contemporary practice

Current Projects

Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1985

Current Scholarship

• Vox News coverage of insulated glass research, 02/03/2022

  Phil Edwards, “How Insulated Glass Changed Architecture.” Vox News, Feb. 3, 2021.  Online at: https://www.vox.com/videos/22916422/insulated-glass-thermopane-architectural-design

   

• Chicago Grain Elevators, 05/01/2020

  "Chicago’s Other Skyscrapers: Grain Elevators and the City, 1838-1957."  Journal of Urban History.  May, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144220925446

• Nervi: A Poet in Concrete, 04/01/2020

  “A ‘Poet in Concrete’: Structure, Fabrication and Aesthetics in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi.”  The Structural Engineer, August, 2019.  12-17.

• , 01/01/2020

  “The First Masonry-Free Skyscrapers” and “Buildings Without Walls: A Tectonic Case for Two ‘First’ Skyscrapers” in Lee Gray, Antony Wood, and Daniel Safarik, eds., First Skyscrapers: Skyscraper Firsts. (Chicago: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats/Society of Architectural Historians).  58-60, 96-103.

• Constructing Building Enclosures, 01/01/2020

  “Steel to Aluminum Curtain Wall: Pier Luigi’s Nervi’s Palazzo del Lavoro,” in Clifton Fordham, ed., Constructing Building Enclosures: History, Technology and Poetics in the Post War Era.  (New York: Taylor and Francis/Routledge).

• Stadio Flaminio Conservation Plan, 01/01/2020

  “‘Ultramodern and Ancient’: Concrete and Nervi’s Stadio Flaminio,” in Ugo Carughi, Elisabetta Margiotta Nervi, Francesco Romeo, Piero Ostilio Rossi, Rosalia Vittorini, The Stadio Flaminio in Rome by Pier Luigi And Antonio Nervi: An Interdisciplinary Conservation Plan.  (Rome: Universitá di Roma, La Sapienza + The Getty Foundation).  36-43.

• Fluorescent Lamps, 01/01/2020

  Fluorescent Lamps: Visual and Thermal Comfort in Modern Interiors.”  Construction History.  Vol. 35, no. 2.  Winter, 2020.  89-112.

• Applied Historical Research Anne de Fort-Menares Award, 12/01/2019

  For best article on historic buiding materials in APT Journal.

• Insulation with Vision, 05/01/2019

  “Insulation with Vision:  Notes Toward a History of Insulated Glazing.”  Association for Preservation Technology Journal.  May, 2019.

• Getty Foundation , 01/01/2017

  Team member, “The Flaminio Stadium by Pier Luigi and Antonio Nervi in Rome:  An Interdisciplinary Conservation Plan.”  Architectural Conservation Grant. (€161,000 total).