5:30–6:30 pm
Zoom Lectures are open to the general public via Zoom. Register here.
Lecture 5: Strength from Shape: Shell Structures in Architecture and Engineering
Toby Mitchell, Skidmore, Owings & Merill
Toby Mitchell studied engineering physics at the University of Michigan, structural engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and received his doctorate in structural engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. His doctoral research was in grid and continuum shell structure optimization. Since joining SOM as an engineer in 2013, Toby Mitchell has worked on various highrise building projects and on several pedestrian bridge and long-span roof structures. His specialty is the design and optimization of complex structural geometry, and he has been an active leader in these topics in SOM’s internal structural research group, as well as publishing papers in several journals and proceedings in this area.
Professors Heinrich Jaeger and Sidney Nagel of the Physics Department at the University of Chicago are pleased to offer a public guest lecture series, about innovative approaches to resolving physical forces in architecture and design, as part of their spring 2022 course. This lecture series is supported by the College Curricular Innovation Fund and organized in cooperation with the Arts, Science & Culture Initiative at The University of Chicago.