Alexandre Gustave Eiffel,
the biggest architect of all time, was born in December 15, 1832 in the
city of Dijon.
After graduating the Chemistry University in Paris, he worked for a company which
produced railway equipment, which encouraged him to give up chemistry for
civil engineering. When he was almost 25 years old he was charged with the
construction of a bridge over the river Garonne, at Bordeaux. He adopted a new strategy for
the guiding of the pillars and the success gained for finishing one of the
biggest iron structures of that time gave him a world reputation hard to
get.
Next
he became independent consulting engineer and soon founded in Paris a factory of
iron workings. His rising reputation brought him contracts in Peru, Algeria
and Indochina and also some viaducts and railway bridges in Europe.
His
craftsmanship has manifested in every aspect of the engineering: a harbor
in Chile; churches in Peru and Filipinas; gas factories, some
steelworks and a dam in France;
the gates of harbor lock in Russia
and for the Panama Channel.
Eiffel
died at the age of 91, on December 27, 1923 in his villa on street Rabelais
in Paris.
