The Designer Robert Maillart

The great pioneer
The Bernese Robert Maillart created new and innovative buildings, which made him one of the most important civil engineers of its time. With the development to it the international break-through succeeded to the cross girderless mushroom cover. Its successful enterprise provided buildings in Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Egypt and Russia, where with the building of an enormous factory the outbreak of the First World War surprised it. 1918, after the revolution, returned Maillart without means to Switzerland. Here it began a new career as a projecting engineer with an office in Geneva and branch office in Berne and Zurich. Stand out in the history of the architecture are its of it developed bridge construction systems three-joint - box girder and the reinforced staff elbow.