автор: John Chilton

John Chilton is a chartered civil engineer and Emeritus Professor of Architecture & Tectonics, in the Department of Architecture & Built Environment, at The University of Nottingham. His research interests span lightweight and non-conventional structures, sustainable construction and history of engineering construction. He is a long-standing member of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), which is based in Madrid. Serving as a member of their Executive Council from 1998 to 2020, he is now a member of their Advisory Board and was recently made an Honorary Distinguished Member.  Reflecting his research interests, he is a member of IASS Working Groups 5: Concrete Shell Structures, 15: Structural Morphology and 17 Historical Spatial Structures. He chaired WG 12: Timber and Bio-based Spatial Structures from 1998 to 2015. From 2001 to 2004 he acted as one of the Scientific Coordinators for Tensi Net, an EU-funded Thematic Network for‘Upgrading the Built Environment in Europe through Tensile Structures’, contributing to the European Design Guide for Tensile Surface Structures (2004). Subsequently, he was Vice-Chair (2006-2017) of the Tensi Net Association, based in Brussels, which emerged from EU-funded Thematic Network, contributing to the Design Recommendations for ETFE Foil Structures (2013).  He has previously published books on Space Grid Structures (1999), which was inspired by his Ph D study on the Cubic Space Frame; and the work of Swiss reinforced concrete shell-builder and fellow IASS member Heinz Isler: The Engineer’s Contribution to Contemporary Architecture (2000). Most recently, with co-author Gabriel Tang, he has written on Timber Gridshells: Architecture, Structure and Craft (2016), reflecting their research into the architecture of timber spatial structures.