{"id":1927,"date":"2025-05-21T07:28:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T07:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iass2025.unam.mx\/?page_id=1927"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:15:49","slug":"pepa-cassinello","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iass2025.unam.mx\/index.php\/pepa-cassinello\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepa Cassinello"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Director of the Eduardo Torroja Foundation, Dr. Architect, Chair Professor of Construction and Technology at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Keynote Address<\/strong>
Eduardo Torroja. The man and his Legacy.<\/p>

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Monday, October 27
CICM Auditorium – Room A<\/span><\/a><\/p>

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Specialist in the history of Shell Structures of Modernity. She belongs to the FIB working group 16 that is currently developing the History of Structural Concrete and is the author of the Shells chapter. Great connoisseur of the life and work of some of its most important protagonists: Eduardo Torroja, F\u00e9lix Candela, Ildefonso S\u00e1nchez del R\u00edo Pis\u00f3n and Heinz Hossdorf. About them she has made a large number of publications, monographic exhibitions and given conferences at various universities and international associations; RIBA-Royal Institute of British Architects, Deutsche Museum Munich, TU – Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin, EPFL – \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne, Sapienza Universit\u00e0t di Roma, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Colombian Academy of History of Engineering and Public Works, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Universidad de los Andes, Bogot\u00e1.<\/p>

In 2011 she obtained the IASS Tsuboi Aware for the article, written with Jos\u00e9 Antonio Torroja, \u201cF\u00e9lix Candela: His vocational training at the university and his subsequent relationship with the Institute founded by Eduardo Torroja. In 2016 her book \u201cEduardo Torroja 1949: Strategy to Industrialize Housing in post-World War II\u201d was awarded at the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism.<\/p>

Curator of the Eduardo Torroja Museum, inaugurated in 2016 at the Zarzuela Racecourse (1934) in Madrid, one of Eduardo Torroja’s most iconic shell structures. The museum’s catalogue, due to international demand, has already been translated into 8 languages: Spanish, English, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Japanese and Russian.<\/p>

In November 2024 she published the book \u201cEduardo Torroja. The man and his Legacy\u201d which was Jose Antonio Torroja’s last wish to perpetuate the memory of his father. An unpublished biography of Eduardo Torroja in which she recounts interesting passages from his family and professional life that were hitherto unknown.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pepa Cassinello Director of the Eduardo Torroja Foundation, Dr. Architect, Chair Professor of Construction and Technology at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. Keynote AddressEduardo Torroja. The man and his Legacy. Date & locationMonday, October 27CICM Auditorium – Room A Time11:30-12:15 h Specialist in the history of Shell Structures of Modernity. She belongs to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1927","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iass2025.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iass2025.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iass2025.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iass2025.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iass2025.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/iass2025.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4918,"href":"https:\/\/iass2025.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1927\/revisions\/4918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iass2025.unam.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}