Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Frederico Garcia Lammers
Many archive photographs capture the construction of longspan reinforced masonry, double-curvature shell structures built by the practice of the late Uruguayan engineer Eladio Dieste. There are few photographs of Dieste hovering over models or drawings in his office. In most images, he is speaking with workers while inspecting and standing on formwork- construction materials always within his reach. Images show Dieste working with job captains dedicated to designing the complex choreography of materials and bodies on site. During the second half of the 20th century, his engineering and construction practice, Dieste and Montanez, invented four material innovations in Structural Ceramics or Cerámica Armada. Cerámica Armada combined the abundance of a local material, like clay brick, with the modern advent of steel reinforcement. Dieste’s fascination with material was based in the structural resistance to gravity through the combination of material and form.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.71
Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca
ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0
