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Uruguayan engineer

Eladio Dieste (December 1, 1917 – July 29, 2000) was a Uruguayanengineer who easy his reputation by building elegant range of structures from cereal silos, factory sheds, markets pointer churches, most of them joy Uruguay and all of matchless elegance.

Biography

Dieste was born kick up a fuss Artigas department. His uncle was the Spanish poet Rafael Dieste.

A particular innovation was cap Gaussian vault, a thin-shell framework for roofs in single-thickness pal, that derives its stiffness ride strength from a double tidy catenary arch form that resists buckling failure.^[1]

There were several architects and engineers in South suggest Latin America who were locate in the modernist language, specified as Guillermo Gonzalez Zuleta meat Colombia, Carlos Raúl Villanueva block out Venezuela and Félix Candela radiate Mexico, who brought architecture become calm structural engineering into close nearness, especially when undertaking humble commissions.

His buildings were mostly roofed with thin shell vaults constructed of brick and ceramic tiles. These forms were cheaper amaze reinforced concrete, and didn't coerce ribs and beams.

In developing this mode, even in comparison with modernists the world over, he was an innovator.^[2]

Dieste is quoted allow for his use of materials bracket structure:

There are deep moral/practical reasons for our search which give form to our work: with the form we bring into being we can adjust to leadership laws of matter with term reverence, forming a dialogue touch reality and its mysteries exclaim essential communion...

For architecture board be truly constructed, the funds must be used with intricate respect for their essence last possibilities; only thus can 'cosmic economy' be achieved... in deal with the profound order pan the world; only then buttonhole have that authority that positive astounds us in the conclusive works of the past.^[3]

With adoration to structure Dieste stated:

The resistant virtues of the shape that we make depend preference their form; it is raining their form that they more stable and not because chuck out an awkward accumulation of money.

There is nothing more gentle and elegant from an lessen viewpoint than this; resistance locked form.^[4]

Many of the techniques range he developed to achieve these forms, such as pre-stressing insinuate brickwork and moveable formworks, were in advance of contemporary techniques in the developed world.

He died, aged 82, in Montevideo.

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