Maurizio Brocato, professor of Civil Engineering at the School, passed away

The School is mourning the loss of one great civil engineering professor, Maurizio Brocato, who left us suddenly on January 16, 2023.

This great scientist, with a particularly inventive mind and great erudition, left his mark on our School by participating in numerous courses for over twenty years: the Design Workshops, Building an Arch (in the School's lobby), and above all his major contribution to the pedagogy of structure, which he reinvented and strongly developed at the School.

He has trained several generations of students who are now inspired by his teaching to design and build.

On the basis of his courses, he had recently published recognized textbooks on structural calculation and design at Presses des Ponts.

In addition, Maurizio Brocato founded and directed the GSA (Geometry Structure Architecture) laboratory at the Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture, a unique and prolific place of experimentation, at the forefront of lightweight structures and stone structures. Within the framework of this laboratory, he notably participated in the current studies for the reconstruction of the vaults of the Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Our thoughts go out to his family and friends, as well as to those who had the priviledge and pleasure to work with him and who were nourished by his innovations and experiments in France and abroad.