Felix Candela From Mexico City to Chicago
40,00€
Rise and Fall of Experimentation in Concrete
Alexander Eisenschmidt
Candela’s move from Mexico City to Chicago, despite his professional success, is rarely discussed. This book investigates the political and economic conditions that influenced his work and motivated his departure, offering a more nuanced understanding of his contributions to mid-20th-century architecture. Unlike existing literature, it examines Candela’s work in both Mexico and the US, highlighting his role as an architect who shaped new architectural spaces with smooth curves and rough concrete.
Combining historical research, oral histories, contemporary theories, construction photographs, essays, interviews, and translations of Candela’s writings, this book reveals his unique position in Latin-American and US architecture. It explores the conditions in both countries, such as Mexico’s low wages and cheap timber fostering concrete experimentation in the 1950s, and how the 1968 student demonstrations in Mexico City and Chicago’s architectural legacy influenced Candela.
The book also delves into Candela’s “Chicago period” through essays based on archival research and interviews with his colleagues and students at the University of Illinois at Chicago, presenting new findings to illuminate the complex factors shaping his work during the 1970s.
With Contributions of
Alexander Eisenschmidt, Juan Ignacio del Cueto, Nader Tehrani, Kathryn O’Rourke, Jonathan Miller, George F. Flaherty, Stuart Cohen, Geoff Goldberg, Ero Aggelopoulou-Amiridis, William Baker, Bob Bruegmann, Elisa María Teresa Drago Quaglia, Stanley Tigerman (in the order of appearance).
Description
Cover: Hardcover
Publication date: May 2024
ISBN: 9781638400424
Price: $44.95/ 40€/ £40
Additional information
Weight | 1 kg |
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Authors | Alexander Eisenschmidt |
excerpt | Felix Candela, one of the most important and iconic architects of the 20th century, became world-renowned for his many captivating concrete-shell structures in Latin America and across the globe. |
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