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Horacio Caminos, architect and formerly professor of architecture at

the School of Design, State College, has joined the faculty of the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology as Professor of Architecture in the School of

Architecture and Planning. His appointment was effective at the beginning of the 1962-63

academic year.

Professor Caminos was born in , , in 1914, and

studied at the University of Buenos Aires, receiving his degree in architecture in 1939.

In 1941 he joined the faculty of the University of Tucuman and taught there for ten years,

also maintaining an active private practice. He was designer and chief architect of the

Master Plan and of several buildings for the University City of Tucuman.

He was a member of the staff at the Architectural Association School in

London from 1951-52 and then accepted the position of professor at North Carolina State College.

Professor Caminos has also served as a consultant for projects in Puerto

Rico and has been the winner of a number of architectural competitions in the

and in Argentina, including in recent years the Carrier Corporation and the Porcelain

Enamel Competitions conducted by the Architectural Forum. With Eduardo Catalano,

another professor at M.I.T., he is architect for the University of Buenos Aires' new campus.

From 1954-1960 he worked actively on the development of two types of

membrane structures that were presented at the international conference of shell structures, held in Madrid in 1960. One type of structure would cover large spans with -more-

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a tensile membrane; the second type resulted from an attempt to eliminate completely the form work in reinforced concrete structures.

Professor Caminos is married to the former Elena Ines Chapman and they have six children. They live at 83 Fairmont Avenue, Newton.

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