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Hungarian structural engineer
Paul Weidlinger
(22 December 1914 ? 5 September 1999) was a
Hungarian
structural engineer
.
Paul was born in
Budapest
on December 22, 1914.
[1]
He attended the
Brno University of Technology
,
Czechoslovakia
followed by
Swiss Polytechnic Institute
,
Zurich
. After his graduation in 1937 Weidlinger went to
London
looking for work. Whilst sitting in his room at
3 Bedford Square
reading the telephone directory he came across the name of
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
. He decided to
cold call
him and was successful in being taken on as a draftsman.
[2]
During his stay in London he visited the
Paris World Fair
and particularly appreciated the Pavilion des Temps Nouveaux, (Pavilion of New Times), a tent pavilion designed by
Le Corbusier
and
Pierre Jeanneret
. From April to August 1938 he was working for Le Corbusier.
[3]
After leaving Europe in 1939 he worked and taught in
La Paz
, Bolivia. In 1943 he moved on to the United States where he started working for
Charles Wohlstetter
designing modular aircraft hangars that could be assembled quickly. With Charles' brother
Albert Wohlstetter
and Weidlinger worked at the
United States Housing Authority
applying these modular principles to domestic residential buildings.
[4]
He started his own practice,
Weidlinger Associates
, in 1949.
[1]
He designed his home, the
Paul and Madeleine Weidlinger House
, in
Wellfleet, Massachusetts
. The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
in 2014.
[5]
He and his first wife, Madeleine (nee Freidli, d. mid-1970s), had a son Tom, born c. 1953, and an older daughter.
[6]
Paul Weidlinger died on 5 September 1999.
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