Professor Mary Lou Lobsinger willl be a participant in a special seminar as part of the first International Conference on Structures & Architecture (ICSA2010) in Guimarães, Portugal, July 21-23.

The seminar will focus on some megastructural proposals, designed in the 60s and 70s of the twentieth century, in order to discuss the social and cultural context that stimulated, then, a playful and expressive relationship between Architecture and Structure: from quotidian experience to radical utopia. In this sense, the symposium will not only count on the testimony of notorious authors of some of those proposals, but also on the vision of important researchers lately specialized on the matter.

ICSA2010 will present research and developments on the merging of architecture and structural engineering.

The conference will facilitate the meeting of international participants interested in the recent advances in the art and practice of designing and building infrastructures in which the structural and architectonic values are consciously combined and the contribution of each other is mutually enhanced.