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Riccardo Morandi

Italian engineer.
Born 1902
in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
Deceased 1989
in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
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Biography
1927
Graduates from the Scuola di Applicazione per Ingegneri
1927 - 1930
Works in Calabre earthquake disaster zone where he finishes his training;
designs churches
1931
Returns to Rome and founds Studio Morandi
1933 - 1939
Works on the halls for the Augustus Cinema and the Giulio Cesare Cinema (Rome)
1949
Patents the Sistema Morandi
1959 - 1969
Professor of forms and structures of bridges at the architecture faculty in Florence
1969 - 1972
Professor of bridge construction at the engineering faculty in Rome

Participation in the following structures
Role, name of structure (year of completion)Structure part
 
Carpineto Bridge (1977)
Design 
Ansa della Magliana Bridge (1967) 4
Boeing 747 Hangar (1970)
DC 9 Hangar (1962)
Favazzina Viaduct (1966)
Fiumarella River Bridge (1961) 2
Kinnaird Bridge (1960) 1
Lussia Bridge (1953) 5
Maracaibo Bridge (1962) 2
Paul Sauer Bridge (1956) 3
Polcevera Viaduct (1968) 1
Ponte sul Lago di Paola (1964)
Ponte sul Vella (1962)
Puente de la Unidad Nacional (1968)
Puente Puerto Unzué - Fray Bentos (1976)
Rio Magdalena Bridge (1974) 1
Rio Tuy Bridge (1951)
Viaducto Nueva República (1954)
Wadi Kuf Bridge (1971)
Engineer 
Amerigo Vespucci Bridge (1956)
Chiesa Santa Maria Madre del Redentore (1985)
Cinema Bologna (1948)
Cinema Teatro Giulio Cesare (1939)
Cinematografo Alcyone (1947)
Cinematografo Augustus (1934)
Cinematografo Maestoso (1957)
FATA Headquarters (1977)
Fiumicino Airport Terminal (1960)
Mercato Coperto Metronio (1957)
San Niccoló Bridge (1949) 2
Santuario della Madonna delle Lacrime (1989)

Bibliography
* MORANDI, Riccardo   Centre de maintenance pour boeing 747 de l'Alitalia à l'aéroport de Rome-Fiumicino, in "La Technique des Travaux", July 1971, n. 7-8 v. 47 .

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External LinkarchINFORM: Riccardo Morandi English German French Spanish Italian
External LinkBernd Nebel: Die Brücke über den Maracaibosee German
External LinkWikipedia: Riccardo Morandi Italian
External LinkWikipedia: Riccardo Morandi English

Relevant Literature
* Imbesi, Giuseppe   Riccardo Morandi, Gangemi Editore, Rome (Italy) , ISBN 887448626X, 1991.
* Picon, Antoine   L'art de l'ingénieur, Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France) , ISBN 2858509115, 1997; pp. 316-7.

 
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