Eduardo Catalano
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Eduardo Fernando Catalano (December 19, 1917 – January 28, 2010) was an Argentine architect.
Life and career
Born in
Catalano had an "understanding of the indivisible relationship between space and structure", which earned him praise from Frank Lloyd Wright, who wrote to House and Home magazine when he saw the publishing of the "Raleigh House" AKA the Catalano House to say "It is refreshing to see that the shelter, which is the most important element in domestic architecture, has been so imaginatively and skillfully treated as in the house by Eduardo Catalano".[2] Catalano sold the house when he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to teach at MIT. Years of neglect at the end of the 20th century culminated in the house's demolition in 2001.[3]
Other buildings designed by Catalano include the US embassies in Buenos Aires, Argentina and in
The Catalano House, built in 1954 and which Catalano is best known for, was designed using a hyperbolic paraboloid roof. Here is a picture of the original House. The roof of the house, a curved structure that is built from straight elements (tongue and groove boarding) evolved from his studies on geometric and structural properties of hyperbolic paraboloids. These studies, which included testing of new materials like aluminum and thin-shell concrete, were published by the University of North Carolina in Structures of Warped Surface.
Eduardo Catalano also created the environmental kinetic sculpture Floralis Genérica in Palermo, Buenos Aires.
Architectural works
Year | Building | Address | City | State | Notes | Image | Reference |
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1948 | Ariston Club | Mar del Plata | Buenos Aires (Argentina) | In association with Marcel Breuer and Carlos Coire | [4][5] | ||
1953 | House for B. Richard Jackson | 1317 Westfield Ave | Raleigh | North Carolina | [6] | ||
1954 | House for Eduardo Catalano | Raleigh | North Carolina | Sold by Catalano in 1957, and ultimately demolished in 2001. | [7] | ||
1958 | Juilliard School of Music |
60 Lincoln Center Plaza | New York | New York | In association with consulting architect FXFOWLE.[8] |
[9] | |
1960 | Burton-Conner House, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
410 Memorial Dr | Cambridge | Massachusetts | Addition of the Porter Room, a student commons, to a preexisting apartment building. | [10] | |
1961 | Julius Adams Stratton Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
84 Massachusetts Ave | Cambridge | Massachusetts | [10] | ||
1961 | Technology Square | Technology Sq | Cambridge | Massachusetts | In association with consulting architect Pietro Belluschi. | [9] | |
1962 | Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires |
Ciudad Universitaria | Buenos Aires | Argentina | In association with architect Horacio Caminos. | [7] | |
1963 | Grover M. Hermann Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
30 Wadsworth St | Cambridge | Massachusetts | [10] | ||
1965 | Eastgate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
60 Wadsworth St | Cambridge | Massachusetts | [7] | ||
1965 | Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires |
Ciudad Universitaria | Buenos Aires | Argentina | In association with architect Horacio Caminos. | [7] | |
1966 | Tower Square | 1500 Main St | Springfield | Massachusetts | In association with consulting architect Pietro Belluschi. | [9] | |
1966 | Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School | 100 Amsterdam Ave | New York | New York | In association with consulting architect Pietro Belluschi and supervising architect Helge Westermann. | [9] | |
1967 | Central Plaza | 675 Massachusetts Ave | Cambridge | Massachusetts | [11] | ||
1968 | Springfield Civic Center | 1277 Main St | Springfield | Massachusetts | In association with consulting architect Pietro Belluschi. Remodeled in 2003 and renamed the MassMutual Center. | [9] | |
1969 | Boston Public Library, Charlestown Branch | 179 Main St | Boston | Massachusetts | [7] | ||
1970 | Embassy of the United States | Av Colombia 4300 | Buenos Aires | Argentina | [12] | ||
1970 | Gorton Corporation Headquarters | 128 Rogers St | Gloucester | Massachusetts | [13] | ||
1970 | Guilford County-Greensboro Government Center | 201 S Eugene St | Greensboro | North Carolina | [14] | ||
1971 | Hampden County Hall of Justice | 50 State St | Springfield | Massachusetts | Now known as the Roderick L. Ireland Courthouse. | [15] | |
1972 | One Washington Mall | 1 Washington St | Boston | Massachusetts | [11] | ||
1975 | Cumberland County Civic Center | 1 Civic Center Sq | Portland | Maine | Now known as the Cross Insurance Arena. | [7] | |
1977 | Additions to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School | 459 Broadway | Cambridge | Massachusetts | Addition of wing along Cambridge Street. | [11] | |
1980 | House for Eduardo Catalano | 44 Grozier Rd | Cambridge | Massachusetts | [6] | ||
1982 | Embassy of the United States | Pretoria | South Africa | [12] | |||
2002 | Floralis Genérica, Plaza de las Naciones Unidas |
Buenos Aires | Argentina |
Publications
- Gubitosi, Camillo, and Izzo, Alberto, Eduardo Catalano - buildings and projects, Catalogue of the Exhihibition held in Naples, 1978.
- Catalano, Eduardo. Structure and Geometry, Cambridge Architectural Press, 1986.
- Catalano, Eduardo. the constant - dialogues on architecture in black and white, Cambridge Architectural Press, 2000.
References
- ^ "Eduardo Catalano obituary". The Guardian. 2010-02-15. Archived from the original on 2023-01-01.
- ^ a b Catalano, E: "Eduardo Catalano", pages 7–10. Officina Edizioni, 1978
- ^ Jetset – Designs for Modern Living: Catalano House – Destroyed Forever Archived 2012-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ISSN 0003-858X.
- ^ "Parador Ariston" (PDF). Nuestra Arquitectura (in Latin American Spanish) (224). Buenos Aires. April 1948.
- ^ a b "Eduardo Catalano Papers 1940-2017", https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/, North Carolina State University Libraries, n.d.
- ^ a b c d e f "Catalano, Eduardo," Contemporary Architects, ed. Muriel Emanuel (London: Macmillan Press, 1980)
- ^ "Alice Tully Hall Lincoln Center", https://www.archdaily.com/, ArchDaily, June 22, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Meredith L. Clausen, Pietro Belluschi: Modern American Architect (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994)
- ^ a b c O. Robert Simha, MIT Campus Planning, 1960-2000: An Annotated Chronology (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001)
- ^ a b c Keith N. Morgan, Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2009)
- ^ a b Jane C. Loeffler, The Architecture of Diplomacy: Building America's Embassies (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998)
- ^ "GLO.1795", mhc-macris.net, Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d.
- ^ "Guilford County", http://www.courthouses.co/, American Courthouses, n.d.
- ^ "Hampden County", http://www.courthouses.co/, American Courthouses, n.d.
External links
- The Flower of Buenos Aires – Eduardo Catalano
- Guide to the Eduardo Catalano Papers 1940-2017
- Guide to the Eduardo Catalano Slides 1954-2002
- Interview on the Flower at the Wayback Machine (archived February 13, 2006) (Spanish)
- Raleigh (Catalano) House
- Volume 2 of Arquitectos Americanos Contemporáneos