May '13 - Feb '16
Felix Candela was a Spanish architect-engineer who fled to Mexico after fighting Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Like his Italian contemporary, Pier Nervi, Candela made structure architecture. Louis Kahn asked a brick what it wanted to be- Candela asked concrete what it could be. In 1958, on top... View full entry
Urban and architectural explorations from Mexico City to Stuttgart Germany through the eyes of a iterant architectural designer