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This contribution explores the constructive and formal potential of the laminar structures in the work of three prominent figures of Modern Architecture. Unlike the most memorable constructions of this type, the roof structures here considered are not the main and only protagonist element of the building. Conversely in these cases they have been designed as parts of the building more inconspicuous and integrated. The study excludes therefore the most important realizations and also more known, made by authors as Maillart, Candela, Isler, Torroja, Saarinen, Niemeyer, etc. which have been widely treated in the specialized literature. The paper is focused in architects as Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto and Louis Kahn, for whom the study of their approach to the laminar seems not to have been made adequately as a whole till now. Are important too, the considerations resulting from the comparative analysis, shedding some light on the idiosyncratic way in which this type of structures was adopted by each architect. Resumen En este articulo se explora el empleo realizado por tres figuras destacadas de la arquitectura moderna de la potencialidad formal y constructiva de las estructuras laminares. A diferencia de como ocurrio en la mayoria de las construcciones memorables de este tipo, la estructura de cubierta no es necesariamente el gran y unico elemento protagonista, proyectandose mas bien por el contrario, como partes del edificio mas discretas e integradas. Se excluyen, por tanto, las realizaciones mas importantes, pero tambien mas conocidas, de autores como Maillart, Candela, Isler, Torroja, Saarinen, etc. ya ampliamente tratadas en la literatura dedicada al tema. Contrariamente, en este trabajo se centra la atencion en arquitectos como Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Louis Kahn, cuya aproximacion menos evidente a lo laminar entendemos que no ha sido en conjunto suficientemente tratada hasta ahora. Son importantes tambien las conclusiones derivadas de los analisis comparativos, las cuales arrojan alguna luz sobre las particulares formas en que se adopto este tipo de estructuras por cada arquitecto.

Laminar ceilings? Shell construction in the work of some masters of modern architecture