"has designed some of the most striking thin shells in reinforced concrete of the second half of the twentieth century. He creates thin shells by hanging small membranes in tension and creating smooth curving surfaces that are then inverted and scaled up to create large-scale structures in compression. ...Within the constraint of economy, he discovered new forms from purely structural considerations and demonstrated the unlimited possibilities for thin compression shells to be found in hanging models."

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