MAILLART, ROBERT

mīyärˈ, 1872–1940, Swiss engineer, renowned for his inventive and beautiful reinforced-concrete bridges. Maillart's basic structural principles—integration of the supporting arch, the stiffening wall, and the traffic platform into one cohesive unit—were applied as early as 1901 in a bridge at Zuoz, Switzerland. These ideas were further refined in Maillart's later works. The Schwandbach Bridge (1933) is constructed on a curving plan to facilitate traffic movement over a mountain gorge. Maillart was also an innovator in the development of reinforced-concrete beamless floor slab (mushroom-column) construction, which has been used in warehouses, factories, and other multistoried buildings.

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The Interpretation of Early Music
Book by Robert Donington; Faber and Faber, 1963
...66 bis figured bass, 228 violin fingering, 470 Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, volta dance and, 336 -7 Lepores embellishment...expression marks, 309 Song of the Earth , 526 turns, 207 Maillart, Pierre: Les Tons , time-signatures, 342 Mainwaring...
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Spanish Cathedral Music in the Golden Age
Book by Robert Stevenson; University of California Press, 1961
Subjects: Church Music--Catholic Church, Church Music--Spain--History And Criticism, Music--16th Century--History And Criticism
...saints. The composer whose name appears most frequently is Maillart, with thirty pieces--among them two masses one a Requiem...Salve, and motets honoring SS. Augustine and Cecilia. After Maillart, Palestrina comes next with six motets; then Victoria with...
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Burgundian Gothic Architecture
Book by Robert Branner; A. Zwemmer, 1960
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic, Architecture--Burgundy
...Reims , 78, 1911, pt. 1, pp. 473-496 ; and in the north tower of the cathedral, with an Anglo- Norman profile E. Maillart, " La cathedrale de Chalons-sur-Marne ", Paris, 1946, and view in Les Monuments historiques de la France , n.s...
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Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture - Vol. 2
Book by R. Stephen Stennott; Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004
Subjects: Architecture, Modern--20th Century--Encyclopedias
...Green , New York: Columbia University Press, and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959 MAILLART, ROBERT 1872-1940 Engineer, Switzerland Robert Maillart was a Swiss engineer who designed some of the most remarkable reinforced-concrete bridges...
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Masters of Modern Architecture
Book by John Peter; G. Braziller, 1958
Subjects: Architects, Architecture, Modern--20th Century
...the department has concentrated its work on community buildings: schools, civic centers, and churches. ROBERT MAILLART Robert Maillart, one of the great shape-givers of modern architecture, was born in Bern, Switzerland, and received his...
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Reviewed Elsewhere
Journal article; Biography, Vol. 28, 2005
Subjects: All Under Heaven: The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, L'Abbe Alary (1690-1770): Un homme d'influence au XVIIIe siecle (Book)--Book reviews, The Moon Can Wait (Book)--Book reviews
...George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker. Robert Gottlieb. New York: Harper-Collins...volumes of the Bronte sisters main volumes (Robert Laffont, "Bouquins") appears a French...the "second" Bush administration." Robert P. Watson. Presidential Studies Quarterly...
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Scapegoats and Conspirators in the Chronicles of Jean Froissart and Jean le Bel
Journal article by Gerald Nachtwey; Fifteenth Century Studies, Vol. 36, 2011
...Etienne Marcel, Charles of Navarre, and Robert le Coq, the Bishop of Laon. The presence...Charles of Navarre, Etienne Marcel, and Robert le Coq - and the role of Froissarts chivalric...named Ruffm, the other headed by Sir Robert Knolles and composed of "une plus grande...
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Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2008-2009
Journal article by Phyllis E. Wachter; Biography, Vol. 32, 2009
Subjects: Biographies--Bibliography, Biography--Bibliography
...about East Asia. Wittkamp, Robert F. "Between Topos and Topography...with the Odd Couple: Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming." 141...one charismatic. Maniura, Robert. "Persuading the Absent Saint...studies and ethnography. Stake, Robert E. "Qualitative Case Studies...
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Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2005-2006
Journal article by Phyllis E. Wachter; Biography, Vol. 29, 2006
Subjects: Biographies--Bibliography, Biography--Bibliography
...The Travel Narratives of Ella Maillart: (En)gendering the Quest...encounters with Africa. Casillo, Robert. The Empire of Stereotypes...Breyten Breytenbach. Hatch, Robert, and William Hatch. The Hero...alternative history. McRuer, Robert. Crip Theory: Cultural Signs...
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Woman as Savior: The Virgin Mary and the Empress of Rome in Gautier De Coinci's 'Miracles
Journal article by Nancy B. Black; The Romanic Review, Vol. 88, 1997
Subjects: Gautier de Coinci--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Miracles--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women in Christianity--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...gave to women. Its founder, Robert of Arbrissel, had established...In addition to his friend Robert de Dive, priest of Saint...SATF, 1884-85); jehan Maillart, Le Roman du Comte dAnjou...dedication of the whole work to Robert de Dive suggest that "The...
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Engineering's Mr.chips
Magazine article by Viva Hardigg; ASEE Prism, Vol. 8, April 1999
...bridges by a Swiss engineer named Robert Maillart. Billington decided to integrate...and, three acclaimed books on Maillart later, he has. Because of the...But if you ask engineers who was Maillart, who was Candela, they wont know...
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Teaching for Posterity
Magazine article by Henry Petroski; ASEE Prism, Vol. 14, Summer 2005
Subjects: Billington, David P, College professors, Engineering, Excellence, Teaching
...Zurichs Federal Institute of Technology have had on structural engineering, especially as manifested in the works of Robert Maillart, Othmar Ammann, Heinz Isler, and Christian Menn, engineers whose lives and works Professor Billington has made...
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Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond's Towering Steel 'Icon' for the 2012 Olympics Is Just a Messy, Meaningless, Plutocrat's Plaything
Magazine article by William Curtis; The Architectural Review, Vol. 227, May 2010
Subjects: Economic development--Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Economic development--United Kingdom, Johnson, Boris--Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Mittal, Lakshmi--Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Olympics--2012 AD
...he claims) but the resulting form, with its ill-proportioned members, is enough to make great engineers like Robert Maillart or Gustave Eiffel turn in their graves. What one longs for is the quality that Italian Pier Luigi Nervi calls the...
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Delight
Magazine article by Tony Hunt; The Architectural Review, Vol. 217, June 2005
Subjects: Architectural firms--Management, Architectural practice--Management, Architectural services--Management, Bridges (Structures)--Design and construction, Bridges--Design and construction
...decks as cantilevers before connecting to one another. Millau is in the tradition of the great European viaducts by Robert Maillart and Christian Menn, but on an even larger scale. It is a triumph of modern technology and construction and an example...
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A Thousand Words: Jennifer Pastor Talks about the Perfect Ride, 2003
Magazine article; Artforum International, Vol. 41, June 2003
Subjects: Pastor, Jennifer--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Pastor, Jennifer--Exhibitions, Sculpture--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sculpture--Exhibitions
...Isler and Eduardo Torroja and the work of bridge builders like Othmar Ammann, Eugene Freyssinet--and especially Robert Maillart. His bridges are so incredibly economical and beautiful. I visited as many of these structures as I could, as well...
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Maillart, Robert
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MAILLART, ROBERT miyar , 1872 1940, Swiss engineer, renowned for his inventive and beautiful...a curving plan to facilitate traffic movement over a mountain gorge. Maillart was also an innovator in the development of reinforced-concrete beamless...


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