Eduardo Catalano
Eduardo Fernando Catalano (born December 19, 1917 in Buenos Aires , Argentina , † January 28, 2010 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an Argentine architect. He designed the "Raleigh House" in North Carolina, USA and the "Floralis Genérica" in Buenos Aires.
life and work
Eduardo Catalano came to the United States on a scholarship , where he studied architecture at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Harvard . After completing his second master's degree, he taught at the Architectural Association in London from 1945 to 1951 . He then returned to the United States to accept a professorship in architecture at the School of Design in Raleigh, North Carolina State University . In 1956 he moved to MIT , where he taught in the Graduate Program until 1977. He then decided to "discover new challenges that are just as rewarding as teaching and take part in them."
Catalano had "an understanding of the indivisible relationship between space and structure" which earned him praise from Frank Lloyd Wright . He wrote to “House and Home” magazine after reading a report about the “Raleigh House” (also called Catalano House): “It is so refreshing to see that the shelter, the most important element of residential architecture, is so imaginative and it is skillfully solved like in this Catalano house. ”Catalano sold the house when he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to teach at MIT. Years of neglect eventually led to its demolition in 2001.
Other houses that were designed by Catalano, were the US embassies in Buenos Aires and Pretoria ( South Africa ), the Juilliard School of Music in New York City , the Guilford County Courthouse in Greensboro (North Carolina) and the Stratton Student Center at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Geometric studies
The Raleigh House, built in 1954 and Catalano's best-known building, is characterized by a hyperbolic and parabolic roof. The curved roof was constructed from straight tongue and groove elements. It was the result of Catalano's geometric studies published by the University of North Carolina under the title "Structures of Warped Surface". The studies also included tests with new materials such as aluminum and particularly thin concrete structures.
Floralis Genérica
In Recoleta , a district of Buenos Aires, Catalano created the sculpture "Floralis Genérica" in Parque Thays . The aluminum sculpture represents an artificial flower, is 20 meters high and was completed in 2002. Their petals close at sunset and glow red at night.
literature
- Camillo Gubitosi, Alberto Izzo (eds.): Eduardo Catalano. Buildings and Projects. (Catalogo della mostra organizzata dall'Istituto di Analisi Architettonica, Facoltà di Architettura di Napoli e dall'Azienda Autonoma Soggiorno e Turismo di Napoli, 1978). Officina Edizioni, Rome 1978.
- Eduardo Catalano: Structure and Geometry. Cambridge Architectural Press, Cambridge MA 1986, ISBN 0-937999-00-8 .
Web links
- The Flower of Buenos Aires - Eduardo Catalano
- Interview ( Memento of February 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
- Raleigh House
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gubitosi, Izzo (ed.): Eduardo Catalano. 1978, pp. 7-10.
- ↑ Jetset - Designs for Modern Living: Catalano House - Destroyed Forever ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Catalano, Eduardo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Catalano, Eduardo Fernando (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires , Argentina |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 2010 |
| Place of death | Boston , Massachusetts |