Paul Weidlinger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 22-Dec-1922
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: structural engineer
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Paul Weidlinger
- Paul Weidlinger (22 December 1914 – 5 September 1999) was a Hungarian structural engineer. Paul was born in Budapest on December 22, 1914.
- 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 László Moholy-Nagy.
- He decided to cold call him and was successful in being taken on as a draftsman.
- 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.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.
- He started his own practice, Weidlinger Associates, in 1949.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.He and his first wife, Madeleine (nee Freidli, d.
- mid-1970s), had a son Tom, born c.
- 1953, and an older daughter.Paul Weidlinger died in 1999.
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