biography
pronunciation:
[mayah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1872–1940)
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| biography:
| Civil engineer, born in Bern, Switzerland. He studied at the Zürich Polytechnic, worked with Hennebique, then set up on his own. He was one of the first to work on three-hinged, reinforced concrete arch bridges in the Swiss Alps, designing some remarkable examples, including the bridge over the Inn at Zuoz (1901) and the spectacular curving Schwandbach Bridge at Schwarzenburg (1933). He also designed many industrial buildings in which he used a ‘mushroom’ column, supporting a flat, two-way reinforced floor slab. |
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