Developing new ideas in the design of shell and spatial structures

摘要

The International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), Madrid recently conferred the famous international Award "Eduardo Torroja Medal" on R. Sundaram, a practising Architect and Consulting Engineer from Bangalore, India. He received this honour at Seoul, South Korea "in recognition of his outstanding and distinguished contributions to design, construction, or research of shell and/or spatial structures" on May 24, 2012 during the IASS-APCS 2012 Symposium. On this occasion he delivered a keynote address on "From Antiquity to Modern Shell Roofs". Recently, the Prestressed and Precast Concrete Society, Singapore also conferred on him a "Life-Time Honorary Membership" of the Society.