description Eduardo Catalano Overview
Eduardo Catalano was an Argentine-born architect and educator associated with modernist architecture and experimental structural design. He is particularly known for the Catalano House in Raleigh, North Carolina, completed in 1954 with a dramatically curved hyperbolic-paraboloid roof formed from timber. Catalano taught architecture in the United States, including at North Carolina State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his work joined geometric research with practical building design.
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What building made Eduardo Catalano famous?
His 1954 Catalano House in Raleigh, North Carolina became famous for its hyperbolic-paraboloid roof, a doubly curved form made from straight structural elements. House and Home magazine later called it the House of the Decade in 1956. [North Carolina Architects archive](https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000046)
How was the Catalano House roof built?
The roof covered roughly 4,000 square feet and used wood only about 2.5 inches thick, sheltering a glass-enclosed house. Two corners met the ground while the other two rose into the air, creating the dramatic warped surface. [North Carolina Architects archive](https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000046)
Where did Eduardo Catalano teach?
He led architecture at North Carolina State College from 1951 to 1956 and then taught at MIT from 1956 to 1977. His academic work on warped surfaces helped explain the structural ideas behind the Raleigh house. [North Carolina Architects archive](https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000046)
Does the Catalano House still exist?
No, the Raleigh house was demolished in 2001 after falling into disrepair. Catalano also designed a later house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, so photographs labeled simply Catalano House can refer to two different buildings. [North Carolina Architects archive](https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000046)
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