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French architect and engineer, active in United States of America and known for his research into tensegrity and trellises.
His university studies in math and physics were curtailed by World War which he was wounded and decorated but he was to go on in teaching and research anyway. As a practicing hydraulics engineer, in 1935 he introduced the concept of corrugated stress skins to the building industry and was awarded the Medal of the French Society of Civil Engineers. Then in 1940 his work on three-dimensional network systems introduced many architects to the concept of space frames. After years of research and many patentsand the 1962 Grand Prix of the Cercle d'Études Architecturales he was well established as the "father of space structures." In 1951, at 57, he came to America to conduct experiments in structure workshops at Illinois-Urbana, North Carolina, Harvard, Penn and Michigan.
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variant spelling:
LE RICOLAIS, Robert
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Curriculum vitae
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* 1894
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La Roche-sur-Yon, France
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born
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1930 - 1943
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Employé au sein de la société L'air Liquide.
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1934 - 1935
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Prend des brevets relatifs aux "tôles composées", créant des éléments de construction d'une grande rigidité et légèreté.
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1951
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Philadelphie, USA
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Création de la «School of Fine Arts», la chaire Architectural Structure à l'université de Pensylvanie.
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1955 - 1960
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Dépôt de brevet N°FR1092370: Panneaux de parois en revêtements travaillant à la flexion.
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26.02.1965
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Dépôt de brevet N° FR1390360 : Système de transit aérien.
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1974 - 1977
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Philadelphie, USA
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Titulaire de la chaire prestigieuse.
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† 1977
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Paris, France
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died
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