![]() Candela became a professor in Mexico, which is what he did for the remainder of his career.Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Palacio de los Deportes Candela also benefited from the budget implemented by Ruiz Cortines in the area of education. Luckily for Candela, $20,300,000 (pesos) of this funding was to go towards public works. Ruiz Cortines came up with a budget to enable his construction declaration to come true, requesting $81,200,000 (pesos) more funding than was used in 1955. In 1956, Mexican President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines said "Nothing could be more serious than to sit in the shade of the buildings we are about to build," foreshadowing the many construction projects to come. Many of his larger projects were given to him by the Mexican government, such as the Cosmic Rays Pavilion. He was responsible for more than 300 works and 900 projects in this time period. Candela did most of his work in Mexico throughout the 1950s and into the late 60s. Mexico: 1950sįelix Candela worked as an architect upon his arrival in Mexico until 1949 when he started to engineer many concrete structures utilizing his well known thin-shell design. (Faber 1963) Candela has said on more than one occasion that the analysis of a structure is a sort of "hobby" to him. From this, he started questioning the behaviour of reinforced concrete with the elastic assumptions and concluded they are in total disagreement with each other. Around 1950 when Candela's company went to design laminar structures, he started researching journals and engineering articles for as much information as he could find. In regard to shell design, he tended to rely on the geometric properties of the shell for analysis, instead of complex mathematical means. He also looked to solve problems by the simplest means possible. This shape eliminates tensile forces in the concrete. Reinforced concrete is extremely efficient in a dome or shell like shape. Thin-shell structuresĬandela worked very hard during his lifetime to prove the real nature and potential reinforced concrete had in structural engineering. In his early life, Felix was active in sports, particularly rugby and skiing. After his name was selected with a few hundred other prisoners, Candela was put onto a ship bound for Mexico, where he would start his career.Ĭandela married Eladia Martin when he moved to Mexico from Spain there, they raised a family. Candela had fought against Franco therefore he could not stay in the new Spain as long as Franco was the head of state. Unfortunately, while participating in the civil war, Candela was imprisoned in the Perpignan Concentration camp in Perpignan, France until the end of the war in 1939. Candela became a Captain of Engineers for the Spanish republic after a short period of time. When Candela returned to Spain to fight, he sided with the republic and fought against Franco. His studies ended very quickly when the Spanish civil war began in 1936. When Candela was a student in Madrid, the schools taught the theory of elasticity where Candela assisted the professors and even tutored other students. Unlike many of his peers, Candela didn't show intellectual or aesthetic efforts in school. While "helping" Vegas, Candela entered many architecture competitions and won most of them. Vegas was his material strength professor, and gave Candela the honorary title of "Luis Vegas' Helper". ![]() ![]() In his junior year, his visual intelligence and his descriptive geometric and trigonometric talent helped him catch the eye of Luis Vegas. Early after he started classes, he developed a very keen sense of geometry and started teaching other students in private lessons. In 1927 Candela enrolled in La Escuela Superior de Arquitectura (Madrid Superior Technical School of Architecture), graduating in 1935 at which time Candela traveled to Germany to further study architecture. Early lifeįelix Candela was born in Madrid, Spain in 1910. Felix Candela died at the age of 87 in 1997 in North Carolina. Candela's major contribution to architecture was the development of thin shells made out of reinforced concrete. Structurae Palacio De Los Deportes Mexico Bacardi Factory Chapel Lomas De Cuernavaca Los Manantiales Restaurant View all worksįelix Candela Outerino (JanuDecember 7, 1997) was a Spanish architect known for his significant role in the development of Mexican architecture and structural engineering. ![]()
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