Eladio dieste biography

          Eladio Dieste (December 1, – July 29, ) was a Uruguayan engineer who made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos....

          Born in in the northern town of Artigas, Uruguay, he studied at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, graduating from the Faculty.

        1. Eladio Dieste was a young graduate who was immensely inclined towards pursuing multiple professions apart from being a professor.
        2. Eladio Dieste (December 1, – July 29, ) was a Uruguayan engineer who made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos.
        3. Eladio Dieste was a Uruguayan engineer who made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos, factory sheds, markets and churches, most of them in Uruguay and all of exceptional elegance.
        4. Dieste and Montañez proposed an alternative building system for large span structures.

          5. Eladio Dieste

          Uruguayan engineer

          Eladio Dieste (December 1, 1917 – July 29, 2000) was a Uruguayanengineer who made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos, factory sheds, markets and churches, most of them in Uruguay and all of exceptional elegance.

          Biography

          Dieste was born in Artigas department. His uncle was the Spanish poet Rafael Dieste.

          A particular innovation was his Gaussian vault, a thin-shell structure for roofs in single-thickness brick, that derives its stiffness and strength from a double curvature catenary arch form that resists buckling failure.[1]

          There were several architects and engineers in South and Latin America who were working in the modernist language, such as Guillermo Gonzalez Zuleta in Colombia, Carlos Raúl Villanueva in Venezuela and Félix Candela in Mexico, who brought architecture and structural engineering into close proximity, especially when undertaking humble commissions.

          His buildings were mostl