Torroja y Miret, Eduardo

Torroja y Miret, Eduardo, 1900-1961, Spanish structural architect. With José Maria Aguirre he founded (1934) an experimental institute to develop new uses and theories for reinforced concrete. Examples of his building technique are the Algeciras market (1933), in which the shell construction spans a diameter of 156 ft (48 m), and the Madrid hippodrome (1935), featuring a 73-ft (22-m) cantilevered roof.

Eduardo Torroja y Miret, (1899-1961) Spanish structural engineer and architect, pioneer in the design of concrete-shell structures. His first large project was the Tempul cable-stayed aqueduct in 1926, Guadalete, Jerez de la Frontera, in which he used prestressed girders, and he made his name with the concrete shell-roof at the Algeciras Market Hall (1933). Eduardo Torroja designed thin-shell water tower in Fedala and the roof of hippodrome "Zarzuela in the form of hyperboloid of revolution. He also used steel with great élan, as at the roof of the Football Stadium, Barcelona (1943). He designed innovative structures in numerous parts of the world, including Morocco and Latin America. His books include Philosophy of Structures (1958) and The Structures of Eduardo Torroja (1958).

See also

• Concrete shell
• Thin-shell structure
• Hyperboloid structure

References

Further reading

• Eduardo Torroja: The Structures of Eduardo Torroja, Ministerio de Fomento, Madrid, ISBN 84-498-0462-0, 2000
• Eduardo Torroja: Philosophy of Structures, University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1958, (translated by Jaroslav Joseph Polivka with Milos Polivka)

External links

• Eduardo Torroja y Miret
• Photos of Works by Eduardo Torroja
• The structures of Eduardo Torroja