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LA OBRA DEL INGENIERO ELADIO DIESTE - Fundación Dieste

1) The document provides background information on Uruguay and the life and times of Eladio Dieste, a notable Uruguayan engineer and architect.

	His leitmotiv was the use of science and technology to solve not only formal but also social problems.
	Cristo Obrero Church in Atlántida, Uruguay Door of Wisdom, locally nicknamed 'The Gull', a sculptural tribute to Dieste at Salto, Uruguay, using his techniques.
	Casa Dieste, Eladio Dieste.

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Eladio Dieste, 100 Years - Joaquín Medina Warmburg

Eladio Dieste (December 1, – J) 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.

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Eladio Dieste (Decem - J) was a Uruguayan engineer and architect who made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos, factory sheds, markets and churches, all in Uruguay and all of exceptional elegance.

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Eladio Dieste (Decem J) was a Uruguayan engineer and architect who made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos, factory sheds, markets and churches, all in Uruguay and all of exceptional elegance.

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Eladio Dieste was a Uruguayan engineer and architect who made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos, factory sheds, markets and churches in Uruguay.

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The Uruguayan engineer Eladio Dieste was trained at the School of Engineering of the University of the Republic at Montevideo, where he taught mathematics and mechanics.

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