Hannskarl Bandel
Hannskarl Bandel (born May 3, 1925 in Dessau , † December 29, 1993 in Aspen , USA) was a German-American civil engineer .
Life
Hannskarl Bandel's father was an architect and owned a design office, and his mother came from the Brechtel family, who ran a well-known German construction company of the same name. This was founded in 1883 by Johannes Brechtel. Bandel was thus shaped for his career choice. He earned a doctorate in engineering from the Technical University of Berlin . After working in the German steel industry , he came to the USA after the Second World War with no money and two suitcases full of books and hoped to be able to build suspension bridges . Three years after joining engineer Fred Severud's New York firm , he became his equal partner.
Together with Severud he made some essential contributions and constructive innovations to various construction projects such as:
- the cylindrical Marina Towers in Chicago
- the Toronto City Hall
- the Ford Foundation Headquarters in New York City (the jungle building)
- the roped roof of Madison Square Garden in New York
- the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC
- Philip Johnson's Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove , California
- the old Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Saint Petersburg , Florida (demolished)
Bandel also created the shape of the Gateway Arch project by Eero Saarinen and improved the construction.
In 1978 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering . After Severud's retirement the company was sold to a Hungarian. Bandel went to DRC Consultants and worked on rope bridges, among other things. In 1980 he was offered a chair at the University of Graz , but he canceled because the work in the USA was more important to him.
Bandel was also involved in the planning, construction and execution of the new Sunshine Skyway Bridge . Prestressed concrete was not only used for the roadway, but also as a supporting element. In 1972 he was a consultant in the redevelopment of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York. Bandel later also designed a study for the three-dimensional assembly of rod structures without tools in weightlessness for NASA's Mars Pathfinder project.
Bandel died of heart failure while skiing in Aspen .
Individual evidence
- ^ Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 8 , National Academy of Engineering (NAE), contribution by Anton Tedesko (1996)
- ↑ Website of BHG Brechtel GmbH ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2011 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.
- ^ Nguyen, A-D .: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, 2003, Spans, 1-3
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bandel, Hannskarl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American civil engineer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |
DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1993 |
Place of death | Aspen , USA |