Felix candela

Felix Candela, an architect by training but an engineer and a sculptor by choice. His following works will take you through his journey from simple forms to complex geometries and why he is rightly branded as the magician of structural expressions. Let’s see his 15 worthy projects:....

This exhibition presents nearly fifty photographs by Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903–93), who played a critical role in Mexico’s modernist wave through her work as a photographer, educator, and curator. Picturing Mexico focuses on her personal artistic practice from the 1930s to the 1970s, when Álvarez Bravo traveled across the country producing iconic portraits of her fellow artists […]

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Completed in 1958 in Mexico City, Mexico. This article was originally published on April 14, 2014. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD...

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Image 23 of 26 from gallery of AD Classics: Los Manantiales / Felix Candela. Design drawing showing roof plan (left) foundation plan (right), "V" bracing and footing design

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Image 5 of 5 from gallery of Spotlight: Félix Candela. Image via candelastructures.org

Studio Steyn designed a chapel for the Bosjes Estate in South Africa drawing on a multitude of sources of inspiration ranging from the Bible to Dutch colonial architecture and the surrounding landscape, creating an apparently lightweight simple form and structure.