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Paul Weidlinger
Pages 328-331

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From page 329... ... At the start of World War II in Europe, he left to take a position as professor at San Andres University in La Paz, Bolivia, where he remained for four years, teaching and designing dams, before he was able to immigrate to the United States. Paul worked for aircraft companies and housing agencies, which led to a growing interest in industrialized construction, and, in 1948, he established his own consulting firm. Read the entire page →
From page 330... ... When asked why he would undertake risky architectural commissions rather than more lucrative and less restrictive government research projects, Weidlinger said simply that he loved architecture and, "if a building is good and appropriate for its purpose, then I like to get involved." His growing reputation also brought him into contact with Picasso, Dubuffet, and Noguchi, with whom he designed the structures for the large environmental sculptures that grace plazas in Chicago, New York, and Paris. Ultimately, Paul's deep interest in mathematics and physics led him in a different direction that was to engage him for 40 years. Read the entire page →
From page 331... ... For an airport to be built offshore in the ocean, he proposed an assembly of floating units consisting of prefabricated concrete cylinders that could be built in a dry dock, floated out to an assembly point, and attached with tension cables to anchors on the ocean floor. For a 120-meter-diameter radio antenna, he proposed a steel-trussed structure with active deformation-compensating cable ties that would permit the antenna's surface to retain its shape to within 2 mm during the complex movement of the dish. Read the entire page →

From page 329...

... At the start of World War II in Europe, he left to take a position as professor at San Andres University in La Paz, Bolivia, where he remained for four years, teaching and designing dams, before he was able to immigrate to the United States. Paul worked for aircraft companies and housing agencies, which led to a growing interest in industrialized construction, and, in 1948, he established his own consulting firm.

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From page 330...

... When asked why he would undertake risky architectural commissions rather than more lucrative and less restrictive government research projects, Weidlinger said simply that he loved architecture and, "if a building is good and appropriate for its purpose, then I like to get involved." His growing reputation also brought him into contact with Picasso, Dubuffet, and Noguchi, with whom he designed the structures for the large environmental sculptures that grace plazas in Chicago, New York, and Paris. Ultimately, Paul's deep interest in mathematics and physics led him in a different direction that was to engage him for 40 years.

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From page 331...

... For an airport to be built offshore in the ocean, he proposed an assembly of floating units consisting of prefabricated concrete cylinders that could be built in a dry dock, floated out to an assembly point, and attached with tension cables to anchors on the ocean floor. For a 120-meter-diameter radio antenna, he proposed a steel-trussed structure with active deformation-compensating cable ties that would permit the antenna's surface to retain its shape to within 2 mm during the complex movement of the dish.

Read the entire page →

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Paul Weidlinger Pages 328-331

Paul Weidlinger
Pages 328-331