Candela, Felix, 1910- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

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Candela, Felix, 1910- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/196920052

The folder may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral items.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6967261

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Candela, Félix, 1910-1997

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Félix Candela was born in 1910 in Madrid, Spain, and trained there as an architect. In 1939, during the Spanish Civil War, he emigrated to Mexico. Candela specialized in the design and construction of thin concrete shells. Among his many projects are the cosmic ray laboratory at the Ciudad Universitaria, the church of the Miraculous Virgin in Mexico City, and the Sports Palace used in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. During the 1970s he resided in the United States and became and citizen ...