Thomas Leslie is the Morrill Pickard Chilton Professor in Architecture at Iowa State University, where he researches the integration of building sciences and arts both historically and in contemporary practice. He is the author of Louis I. Kahn: Building Art, Building Science (2005), Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934 (2013) and, with Jason Alread and Robert Whitehead, Design-Tech: Building Science for Architects (2014).
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Participating Programs

Rewriting Skyscraper History: Looking Back from the 21st Century

Work in Progress: Construction History in New York and Chicago, 1870-1930

CONSTRUCTION HISTORY ROUNDTABLE: Work in Progress

THE MILLS BUILDING: Skyscraper Construction in New York City in the Early 1880s
