Sara Wermiel
Lecturer, Preservation Studies Program
- Title Lecturer, Preservation Studies Program
- Email wermiel@bu.edu
- Education PhD, History of Technology/Urban History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
MUP, Urban Planning, Design & Development, Hunter College;
BA, Oberlin College
Research Areas: novel building assemblies and materials, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; fire-resistive construction and life safety; construction industry – general contractors; building typologies: warehouses, lighthouses, textile mills.
Selected Publications:
Lighthouses, W. W. Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design & Engineering (2006).
Army Engineers’ Contribution to the Development of Iron Construction in the Nineteenth Century, Public Works Historical Society (2002).
The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City, The Johns Hopkins University Press (2000).
“Introduction of the Rolled I-beam in the U.S.A. in the 1850s, Revisited,” James Campbell et al., eds., Iron, Steel and Buildings … Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the Construction History Society (CHS, 2020).
“Fire escapes,” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (2019) https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/fire-escapes/
“Emergence of heavy contracting in the United States in the nineteenth century.” In Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories vol. 2. London: Taylor & Francis Group (2018).