December 19, 1917 - Eduardo Catalano
While he was logical in so many things in his ideas about architecture, he was really a romantic
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| Eduardo Catalano |
Argentinian
architect Eduardo Catalano was an inventive architect and one the modern
architecture most notable personalities. Perhaps, he was too ahead of the
time with his works and imagination.
Always critical Frank
Lloyd Wright was impressed by the radical design of the house Catalano had
designed for himself in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1956 it won ‘House and Home’
magazine's ‘House of Decade’ award and Frank Lloyd Wright was so impressed,
that he personally wrote a letter to US monthly to praise the project
as “so imaginatively and skillfully treated ...”.
Catalano sought harmony in science, technology and the visual arts and that infuenced all of his works.
He also had very strong opinions, which would get him into trouble. He didn’t care who you were, a client or otherwise - he would tell you what he thought.
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| Raleigh House, North Carolina |
This 3 bedroom house featured a 4,000 square-foot
hyperbolic paraboloid as its roof. Sheltered beneath the shoehorn-shaped roof
was a square interior enclosed entirely in glass. The undulation of the roof
provided openness in some areas and privacy in others.It
was surrounded by glass, and turned into a breezy pavilion when all its doors
opened up.
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| Floralis Generica, Buenos Aires |
Eduardo Catalano works include:
US embassies in
Buenos Aires, Argentina and Pretoria, South Africa,
the Juilliard
School of Music at New York City's Lincoln Center,
Guilford
County-Greensboro Government Center in Greensboro,
the Stratton
Student Center at MIT in Cambridge MA.
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