“’Schalen USW’ (Shells, etc.)”--Studying the Shell Method and Shell Roofs, 1952-1972 and undated (includes facsimiles)

Kemp participated in the Diploma of Imperial College program as a Fulbright scholar, a system by which he earned a degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. While there, he studied the mathematical principle of shells, which he later used when constructing a thin-shell roof over a warehouse in Hull, England. The studies of shells were also applicable while he worked under Ove Arup on the design of the Sydney Opera House. This box includes handwritten calculations, reports, photographic prints, correspondence, magazines, and scholarly journal articles. The box also includes facsimile handwritten calculations and facsimile slides. Subjects include shell structures, cylindrical shells, circular cylindrical shells, long and short shells, lattice shells, edge beams, stresses, waves, shell rooves, cement, and concrete. The box was previously called “Schalen USW,” or "Shells" in German. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 14, Folder 2: Seven engineering drawings (undated), twenty-eight sheets of handwritten calculations (undated), two sheets of a journal article (1957).