Architect

Felix Candela

1910-1997 · Spanish, Mexican · 2 places

Felix Candela built reinforced-concrete thin shells, known as cascarones. The best known is the roof of the Los Manantiales restaurant in Xochimilco, Mexico City, which sources date to 1957 or 1958: an eight-sided groined vault of four…

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