Eladio dieste biography of martin

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.

Eladio Dieste Saint Martin was born on 10 th December in the town of Artigas in Uruguay Studies Engineering at the University of the Republic.

Ingeniero uruguayo reconocido mundialmente por su uso de lo que él denominó cerámica armada.

Eladio Dieste Saint Martin was born on 10th December in the town of.

Brief Life History of Eladio Florentino​​ He married Elisa Aurora Saint Martin Lamarque in , in Salto, Uruguay.

Dieste and Montañez proposed an alternative building system for large span structures.

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