W.J. (Wido) Quist

W.J. (Wido) Quist

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Working as Section Leader Heritage & Archtiecture and associate professor in Heritage & Technology. I was trained as architect and building engineer and in 2011 I defended my PhD-thesis on the replacement of white Belgian sandy limestone. My research interests contain among others history of conservation, 20th century building materials, natural stone and pre-cast concrete. I'm involved in education of master students in architecture with a specific focus on intervention in existing buildings in general and building conservation in particular. 
Among others I was vice chairman of the 10th International Docomomo Conference in 2008 in Rotterdam, I'am chairman of Docomomo Netherlands, board-member of WTA NL-VL and member of the organizing committee of bi-annual Flemish-Dutch symposium on Natural Stone.

Specialties: Heritage & Architecture, Natural Stone, Conservation, Conservation History, 19th and 20th century, choice of material for conservation

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Academic background

I am trained as architect and building engineer and now work Section Leader and an associate professor at Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, section Heritage & Architecture. Early 2011 I defended my PhD-thesis on the replacement of white Belgian sandy limestone. My research interests contain among others history of conservation, 20th century building materials, constructions & technologies and natural stone as well as precast concrete in particular. I'm involved in education of master students in architecture with a specific focus on intervention in existing buildings in general and building conservation in particular. 

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  • 2023-6-14

    WTA financial project support

    WTA Nederland-Vlaanderen financially supported the project to make Dutch catalogues with building materials (Catalogus voor de Bouwwereld) from the 20th century available to the WTA-community and beyond. The catalogues are important sources of information to identify building materials and building products in historic buildings in order to decide on their preservation, repair or replacement.

    Through this project the catalogues of the years 1935, 1937, 1948, 1950, 1957, 1960, 1966 en 1975 were scanned and made available online.

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