"Paduart was working at the edge between academia and engineering practice. ...[H]is production during thirty years... is eclectic, with s, corrugated shells, hypar shells and folded plates. He could teach... mathematical theory of shells at the university, but used... very simple methods derived from the Strength of Materials to design his own shells. This did not deter him from conceiving bold structures, at the limits of the utilization of the materials and construction techniques of his time, but he looked always forward with anxiety to the decentering of the shells..."