ICSA2013 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. The conference is intended for an audience of researchers and practitioners worldwide with a background in architecture and in structural engineering (architects, engineers, builders and building consultants, construction industry persons, academics, researchers, students, product manufacturers, material suppliers, project managers and contract administrators, asset managers, etc.).
All major aspects of structures and architecture will be addressed. Those include the following topics: building envelopes; comprehension of complex forms; computer and experimental methods; concrete and masonry structures; emerging technologies; glass structures; innovative architectural and structural design; lightweight and membrane structures; special structures; steel and composite structures; the borderline between architecture and structural engineering; the history of the relationship between architects and structural engineers; the tectonic of architectural solutions; the use of new materials; timber structures.