“Bricolage de pointe : Constructions expérimentales dans un contexte étranger pendant la Grande Guerre.” In Construire ! Entre antiquité et époque moderne, edited by Gilles Bienvenu, Martial Monteil, and Hélène Rousteau-Chambon, 973-83. Paris: Éditions Picard, 2019.

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Construction technologies progressed by leaps and bounds during World War I. As builders struggled to complete edifices despite wartime shortages, they perfected novel materials and building methods like reinforced concrete and high-alumina cement. Unexpected international encounters and experiments on the front lines fueled this progress. When the war ended, its cutting-edge building technologies became a permanent part of the regular, civilian construction industry.






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“Hector Guimard’s Visions of Eternal Peace.” In 113th Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2025.  

 

“The U.S. Movement for Mass-Produced Concrete Housing, 1900 to 1924.” Construction History, 2024.                                                                                                        

“Huts, Houses, and the Industrial Militarization of France.” In States of Emergency, 2022.                                                                                                    

“French Mass-Produced Housing in the Crucible of World War I.” On platformspace.net, 2022.                                                                                                

“Notre-Dame du Raincy and the Great War.” JSAH, 2019.


“Bricolage de pointe : Constructions expérimentales dans un contexte étranger pendant la Grande Guerre.” In Construire, 2019.


“The Rough Concrete Surfaces of Perret’s Notre-Dame du Raincy.” In Still Life, 2016.
 
 
“The Super-Urban House.” In The Building, 2016.


“Minimum Structure: Musmeci and the Semiotics of Statics.” In GSD Platform 4, 2011.






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