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Robert Maillart

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Maillart, Robert 

Born Feb. 6, 1872, in Bern; died Apr. 5, 1940, in Zürich. Swiss engineer.

Maillart graduated from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1894. One of the first to discover the architectural possibilities of reinforced concrete, he designed flat, girderless floor structures using mushroom-shaped supports (Federal Grain Warehouse in Altdorf, 1912). He also built a number of bridges with flat beams resting on graceful, gently sloping arches made of thin slabs bifurcated near the support (for example, the Salginatobel Bridge, 1930, with a 90-m arch). From 1912 to 1919, Maillart worked in Russia.

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Bill, M. R. Maillart. Paris, 1955.
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Millau is in the tradition of the great European viaducts by Robert Maillart and Christian Menn, but on an even larger scale.
Delight by Hunt, Tony / The Architectural Review
I got interested in the economy and invention of great engineering structures, like the thin shell constructions of Heinz Isler and Eduardo Torroja and the work of bridge builders like Othmar Ammann, Eugene Freyssinet--and especially Robert Maillart.
A thousand words: Jennifer Pastor talks about The Perfect Ride, 2003 by Artforum International
ch/ tells us, famous Swiss architects include Borromini, Robert Maillart, Le Corbusier, Hannes Meyer, Mario Botta, Peter Zumthor, Bernard Tschumi and I-Ierzog and de Meuron.
www.vitruvio.ch/ by The Architectural Review
 
 
 
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