Famous Candela structures include the Pavilion of Cosmic Rays at UNAM, Mexico City (1951) the Chapel Lomas de Cuernavaca, Cuernavaca (1958) Los Manantiales Restaurant, Xochimilco (1958) and the Palace of Sports for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. These curved and cantilevered forms were not only structural advancements but also brought new textural and atmospheric qualities to the social and communal spaces they shelter. His designs evolved as feats of architectural engineering, using hyperbolic paraboloid geometry to create numerous reinforced concrete shells. In the 1950s, ten years into his practice in Mexico, Candela debuted his experimental signature shell structures by designing a continuous curved surface of minimal thickness. The exhibition spotlights Félix Candela’s Concrete Shells through photographs, architectural models, and plans, as well as archival material from his time as a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1971 to 1978.Ĭandela exiled to Mexico at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, where he lived for thirty years and established his career as an architect. It originated through the research of scholar Juan Ignacio del Cueto and is curated by the architectural theorist and designer Alexander Eisenschmidt. This exhibition roots Félix Candela (1910-1997) as one of the most prolific architects of the 20th century in his advanced geometric designs and lasting influence in contemporary architecture. 27, 2009), and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (Sept. 22, 2009), MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA (Apr. thesis, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.īacardí Rum Factory model (2008), Félix Candela: Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist, exhibited at the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ (Oct. “The Thin Concrete Shells of Jack Christiansen.” M.S.E. Louis Airport Terminal.” International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Symposium, Acapulco, Mexico. “A Comparative Analysis of the Bacardí Rum Factory and the Lambert-St. “Bacardí Rum Factory.” Félix Candela: Engineer, Builder, and Structural Artist, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 154-167. “The Thin Concrete Shells of Jack Christiansen.” International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Symposium, Valencia, Spain. Abel, eds., International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, Madrid, Spain, 13-32. “The Decade 1960-1969: The First Ten Years of the IASS.” Fifty Years of Progress for Shell and Spatial Structures: In Celebration of the 50 th Anniversary Jubilee of the IASS (1959-2009), I. Abel, eds., International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, Madrid, Spain, 151-164.īillington, D. “Concrete Shell Roofs.” Fifty Years of Progress for Shell and Spatial Structures: In Celebration of the 50 th Anniversary Jubilee of the IASS (1959-2009), I. “Norfolk Scope Arena: A US Dome with a Unique Configuration of Interior Ribs and Buttresses.” International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Symposium, Wroclaw, Poland. “Norfolk Scope Arena: A US Dome with a Unique Configuration of Interior Ribs and Buttresses.” Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, 54(2 and 3), 189-198. (for conference publications, underline indicates the presenter, † indicates the paper was not presented orally, and * indicates the paper was displayed as a poster) For example, our work in this area is informing our research of suspended formwork for shell structures and mushroom biomaterial structures. Ultimately, this research is intended to lead to investigations related to new structures. Studying built works and the individuals that designed those works provides insight into how structures are influenced by material, construction, the environment, society, etc. This research focuses on the analysis of historic thin-shell concrete roofs and their designers (e.g., Jack Christiansen, Felix Candela, Pier Luigi Nervi, and Heinz Isler).
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