Rafael Guastavino
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Rafael Guastavino Moreno was a Spanish building engineer and builder who immigrated to the United States in 1881; his career for the next three decades was based in New York City.
Portrait of Rafael Guastavino
Guastavino tile vaulting at the Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant
Bridgemarket, under Queensboro Bridge
Inside dome of the Basilica of St. Lawrence, and final resting place of Rafael Guastavino in Asheville, North Carolina.
Catalan vault
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The Catalan vault, also called thin-tile vault, Catalan turn, Catalan arch, boveda ceiling, timbrel vault or timbrel arch, is a type of low brickwork arch forming a vaulted ceiling that often supports
Rafael Guastavino
…building engineer and builder who immigrated to the United States in 1881; his career for the next three decades was based in New York City. Based on the Catalan vault, he created the Guastavino tile, a "Tile Arch System", patented in the United States in 1885, which was used for constructing robust, self-supporting…
A Catalan vault in a house in Barcelona
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