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Honorary Members of the IASS

Since 1963 from time to time, the IASS Executive Council has elected individuals with a distinguished record of outstanding achievement in the field of shells and/or spatial structures to Honorary Membership in the Association.  The first Honorary Memberships were awarded in 1962 to the great Italian structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi and the renowned thin-shell concrete designer and builder Félix Candela. The recipients are listed here according to their years of election. Select the name for more information about the person.

Please note that this site is still under construction.

1962
Pier Luigi Nervi
(1891-1979) Italy
Félix Candela
(1910-1997) Spain / Mexico
1971
Yoshikatsu TsuboiYoshikatsu Tsuboi
(1907-1990) Japan
1979
Anton Tedesko
(1903-1994) USA
1980
Pál Csonka
(1896-1987) Hungary
Egor P. Popov
(1913-2001) USA
1986
Nicolas EsquillanNicolas Esquillan
(1902-1989) France
Zygmunt S. Makowski
(1922-2005) UK
1987
Ulrich Finsterwalder
(1897-1988) Germany
1988
Wolfgang Zerna
(1916-2005) Germany
Kornely A. Glukhovskoy
(1912-1988) USSR
1991
Georgy K. Khaidukov
(1912-2004) Russia
Ib Mogensen
(1921-2009) Denmark
Alexander C. Scordelis
(1923-2007) USA
1992
Florencio del Pozo Frutos
(1924-1993) Spain
1993
Herman Rühle
(1924-1993) Germany
1994
Heinz Isler
(1926-2009)
Switzerland
1999
Felipe Martínez Martínez
(1944- ) Spain
2001
Stefan J. MedwadowskiStefan J. Medwadowski
(1924- ) USA
2004
David P. Billington
(1927-2018) USA
2005
Mircea Mihailescu
(1920-2006) Romania
2006
Tien T. Lan
(1927-2022) China
2007
Mamoru KawaguchiMamoru Kawaguchi
(1932-2019) Japan
2008
Porfirio Ballesteros Barocio
(1927- ) Mexico
2009
Wilfried B. Krätzig
(1932-2017) Germany
Matthys Levy
(1929- ) USA
Kōryō Miura
(1930- ) Japan
2010
Kazuo Ishii
(1934- ) Japan
2011
Jörg Schlaich
(1934-2021) Germany
Ludevít Végh
(1921-2016) Czech Republic
2012
Avelino Samartín Quiroga
(1939-2023) Spain
Shizhao Shen
(1933- ) China
Taek-Jin Kwun
(1937- ) Korea
2013
Jan B. Obrębski
(1943-2020) Poland
2014
Rafael Astudillo Pastor
(1947- ) Spain
Narendra K. Srivastava
(1937-2023) Canada
2015
Kenneth Snelson
(1927-2016) USA
2016
Shiro Kato
(1945- ) Japan
Pieter Huybers
(1935-2021) The Netherlands
2017
Tibor TarnaiTibor Tarnai
(1943- ) Hungary
Brian Smith
(1937- ) United Kingdom
 2019
Görün E. Arun
(1943- ) Turkey
Ronald E. Shaeffer
(1939-2019) USA
 2021

Ulrik Stottrup-Andersen
(1950- ) Denmark


José Manuel Gálligo Estevez
(1951- ) Spain


 2022
John Chilton
(1949- ) UK


Yeong-Bin Yang
(1954- ) Taiwan


 2023
Michael Valentin Balz
(1935- ) Germany

 2024

David M. Campbell
(1957- ) USA

 2025
Juan Gerardo Oliva Salinas
Mexico
(to be conferred during the 2025 Symposium)

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