Title & Author:

Poetic Structures / [presented by] Félix Candela.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1992.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (23 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Felix Candela, 1992 -- Hyperbolic Parabola -- Four Paraboloids -- Testing Hyperbolic Parabola Structure -- Three Umbrellas, Dallas Fort Worth -- Acoustic Shell For Bandstand, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Architect Mario Pani -- Church In A Poor Area -- Church, Monterrey. Architect Enrique de la Mora -- Cosmic Rays Pavilion For University Of New Mexico -- Restaurant In Xochimilco -- Bacardi Bottling Plant, Mexico City -- Church, Lomas De Cuernavaca. Architects G. Rosell & M. de la Rosa -- Hall For Olympic Sports Palace, Mexico. Sketch -- Olympic Sports Palace, Mexico. Architects: Candela, E. Castaneda & A. Peiri.

Summary:

In October 1992, the late Felix Candela was invited to London by the British Cement Association to talk at the RIBA about his work. Extracts from this comprise our recording. Introducing him, Professor Happold said: "In the 1960s and 1970s Candela's thin shell structures in Mexico demonstrated a mastery of daring and imagination, built in an economical way and designed for minimum cost". He was a pioneer in developing geometrics which (for example the hyperbolic parabola), were easier to build than most shell structures of the time. Born in Madrid, Candela trained as an architect, graduating in 1936. After serving in the Republican army he escaped to Mexico. There he worked as a designer and constructor and since then in various universities. He was the Charles Elliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard in 1961 - 1962. His list of honours and awards is enormous and worn with typical modesty, among them Gold Medallist of the Institute of Structural Engineers (UK).

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Hyperboloid structures.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Structures hyperboloïdes.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Candela, Félix, 1910-1997, narrator.