Tait Johnson to Present at Conference
This paper extends his research on the history of architectural materiality by showing how two titans of aluminum leveraged patents as legal weapons to spread aluminum cladding and dominate the market.
Tait Johnson to Present at CHSA Conference
April 17, 2019
Lecturer Tait Johnson explores an underlying process for how modern architectural materials spread during the twentieth century in a paper entitled “Enemies on the Same Side: Alcoa, Reynolds, and the Battle for Progress during WWII,” which he will present at the Construction History Society of America conference in May.
