Symposia Colloquia & Conferences

To extend and enhance the dissemination of technical and design information about shell and spatial structures, the IASS engages in organizing or endorsing gatherings all over the world.  All of the upcoming meetings are listed in the Events page of this website. There are three principal types of conferences as related in the following.

Annual Symposia - Proceedings

The Association organizes annual International Symposia on themes related to lightweight long-span structures of interest to engineers, architects and builders. Traditionally, the annual symposium is held in Spain every ten years to mark a decadal anniversary of the 1959 founding of the Association in Spain. A list of the IASS Annual Symposia held since 1989 is available here.

Since 2013, the IASS publishes the proceedings of these symposia online, hosted by Ingenta Connect. As of April 2024, all users, including the non-member public, have full access to the Proceedings, including the ability to view and print PDFs of the full articles. The proceedings are accessible by selecting this button:

Colloquia Organized by Working Groups

Information about Colloquia are not only listed in the Events page of this website but are also recorded in the Annual Reports of the Technical Activities Committee (TAC), accessed here.

Other Conferences

The Association co-sponsors or endorses other symposia or conferences, typically with partner associations. Typical examples are the Asia-Pacific Conferences on Spatial Structures (APCS), the Structural Engineering World Congresses (SEWC), and the Latin American Symposia of Tensile Structures (SLTE).