Publications by Salvatore Aprea

Exile and Resilience. Studies at the camp d’internement universitaire in Lausanne

The essay investigates the intellectual production developed by Italian refugees hosted in the military internment camp opened in Lausanne in January 1944 and active until the spring of 1945, when the refuges returned to Italy. In the complex and controver ...

2021

Nature, Science, and Enterprise: The Origins of the Success of Reinforced Concrete in Switzerland. The Introduction, Diffusion, and Supersedence of the Hennebique System

Salvatore Aprea

This contribution gives an account of how concrete construction developed in French-speaking Switzerland since the end of the nineteenth century. The narrative is based on original sources from the Archives de la construction moderne (Acm) and on data and ...

EPFL Press2021

Concrete in Switzerland. Histories from the recent past

Salvatore Aprea, Sarah Nichols

A groundbreaking work resulting from the collaboration between the three major Swiss Architectural Archives and the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. A historical assessment of the most controversial building material of our time, concrete, made by addre ...

EPFL Press2021

Edito. « Le seul fichier comparatif de l’architecture suisse. Une source extraordinaire d’informations et de comparaisons. »

Salvatore Aprea

2020

La beauté de la nécessité, la nécessité de la beauté. Théorie esthétique et art du dessin dans l’œuvre d’Alberto Sartoris

Salvatore Aprea

Architecte et théoricien, Alberto Sartoris réfléchit dès sa jeunesse et sans relâche aux questions fondamentales de l’art et de l’architecture moderne du XXe siècle. Théorie et pratique caractérisent son travail. La première le conduit à la rédaction de no ...

EPFL Press2020

Villa Eupalinos

Salvatore Aprea

Toute lecture ou analyse de la villa Eupalinos ne peut pas ignorer la relation exceptionnelle entre ces deux éléments d’une composition unique. Depuis sa position, et grâce à sa forte symétrie et à son caractère classique, la villa commande la géométrie d’ ...

2018

German Concrete, 1819 - 1877 : The Science of Cement from Trass to Portland

Salvatore Aprea

This dissertation originates from an investigation about the arising of the modern, German building expertise involving the use of concrete, which develops during the first three quarter of the 19th century against the backdrop of a general modernisation p ...

EPFL2015

The early German production and use of modern hydraulic binders: between English influences and the search for a scientific approach, 1817-1839

Salvatore Aprea

The interest of German building masters towards hydraulic binders grows at the third decade of the 19th century. This acute interest is stimulated by the import of «Roman Cement» from England and by the acquisition of the knowledge related to it. The disse ...

Construction History Society2014

Placement de l’armature dans une plaque en béton: la proposition de Koenen et Wayss, 1880-87

Salvatore Aprea

2011