Candela, Felix

La Manantiales restaurant, Xochimilco, Mexico,1958 The almost hallucinogenic forms of Iberian baroque coincide with Felix Candela s investigation of double-curved surfaces. He made shapes definable by differential equations. Solved by consideration of the boundary conditions, these formulations produced elegant forms with light, feathered edges. 

Felix Candela, Hacia Una Nueva Filosophia De Las Estructuras (1962). The pursuit of elegance permeates the work soluble partial-differential equations yield beautiful simple edge profiles. 

Guy Nordenson, Seven Structural Engineers The Felix Candela Lectures (2008), p. 170. At the first congress of the International Association for Shell Structures, Isler presented a short paper entitled New Shapes for Shells. His proposition that free forms could be legitimately generated from analogues raised a storm of discussion. 

Nordenson, G. ed. (2008) Seven Structural Engineers The Felix Candela Lectures. New York Museum of Modern Art. 

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