ABSTRACT ONLY:
Engineers and architects working in the international field of space architecture are developing structural applications that represent significant advances for structures used on Earth. Among these innovative facilities are pneumatic membrane structures, which provide rapidly and easily deployable large-volume enclosures that can be transported in compact forms.
BIOS:
Larry Bell, A.M.ASCE, is a professor of architecture at the University of Houston and the founder of the school's Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture.