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Heinz Isler Quotes

1926–2009 Switzerland

Heinz Isler (July 26, 1926 – June 20, 2009) was a Swiss structural engineer known for his concrete thin-shell structures. Isler studied concrete shells at the Federal Institute of Technology (later renamed ETH Zurich).

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Among others there are three methods for shaping shells: the freely shaped hill, the membrane under pressure and the hanging cloth reversed.

New Shapes for Shells (1961)

[Architects and engineers] must be willing to subordinate themselves to the emerging logic of the shell’s form as it evolves through experimentation.

New Shapes for Shells (1960)

[T]heoretical considerations and derivations … are always based on severe simplifications of the assumptions.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Heinz Isler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.