Robert Maillart

Robert Maillart

male, deceased (1940)
civil engineer, Swiss, Bridge engineer, Structural engineer, reinforcedconcrete, deck-stiffened arch
Robert Maillart (February 6, 1872 - April 5, 1940) was a Swiss civil engineer who revolutionized reinforced concrete with such designs as the...
Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Niemeyer

male, 101 years old
Pritzker Prize winner, modern architecture, atheist, From Rio de Janeiro, Parody, German-Brazilian…reinforcedconcrete
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (born December 15, 1907) is a Brazilian architect who is considered one of the most important names...

Joseph Monier

male, deceased (1906)
engineer, inventor, French, reinforcedconcrete, Exposition Universelle, Paris Exposition of 1867
Joseph Monier (November 8, 1823, Saint-Quentin-de-Poterie, France-March 13, 1906, Paris) was a French gardener and one of the principal inventors...
Hardy Cross

Hardy Cross

male, deceased (1959)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, American, Harvard, civil engineer, engineer, civil engineering…reinforcedconcrete
Hardy Cross, 1885-1959, born in Nansemond County, Virginia, was a U.S. engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural...

Eugène Freyssinet

male, deceased (1962)
Structural engineer, arch bridge, structural, span, vichy, bridge…prestressed concrete, reinforcedconcrete
Eugène Freyssinet was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete. Freyssinet was born in at Objat, C...
Walter Burley Griffin

Walter Burley Griffin

male, deceased (1937)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni, American urban planner, reinforcedconcrete, Urban planner, canberra, architect
Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876 - February 11, 1937) was an American architect and landscape architect best known for his role in...
François Hennebique

François Hennebique

male, deceased (1921)
civil engineer, concrete, French, Structural engineer, reinforcedconcrete, beam…reinforced-concrete
François Hennebique was a French engineer and self-educated builder who patented his pioneering reinforced-concrete construction system in 1892. B...

Jörg Schlaich

male
civil engineer, structural engineering, Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, Bridge engineer, Structural engineer, reinforcedconcrete
Jörg Schlaich is a German structural engineer. Responsible for the Olympic Stadium, Munich as a partner of Leonhardt & Andrä, he later founded hi...
Henry Chapman Mercer

Henry Chapman Mercer

male, deceased (1930)
Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Arts and Crafts Movement, from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, reinforcedconcrete, Non-fiction writer
Henry Chapman Mercer (b. June 24 1856, Doylestown, Pennsylvania - d. 1930, Bucks County, Pennsylvania). Henry Chapman Mercer was born in...

Joseph-Louis Lambot

male, deceased (1887)
engineer, inventor, French, reinforcedconcrete, concrete, Duke of Bourbon
Joseph-Louis Lambot, is the inventor of ferro-cement, which led to the development of what is now known as reinforced concrete. He studied in...