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...structural element of building design which used to be dismissed as "a necessary evil" has been recognized by modern architects as a primary means of creative expression, Felix Candela said last night in the first of this year's Charles Eliot Norton lectures...
...Candela, who is a professor at the National School of Architecture in Mexico City as well as a designer and builder, is the first of the three prominent architects who are sharing this year's Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry...
...Candela, professor at the national School of Architecture in Mexico City, will lecture in November and December and reside in Leverett House for the two months. In his later lectures, the architect will discuss "Comments on the Collaboration Between Architects and Engineers" and "The Creative Process and the Expressiveness of Inner Space...
President of Geodesics, Inc., and President and Chairman of the board of Synergetics, Inc, Fuller lectured at the University in 1960 also. Fuller, Nervi, and Candela are known for the enclosure of column-free space...
...Candela, a native of Spain who studied at the University of Madrid, has designed and constructed a number of dramatic buildings in Mexico with thin concrete roofs in the form of hyperbolic paraboloids, umbrellas, folded slabs, elliptical domes, and undulating curves. His works include the cosmic ray pavilion of Mexico's University City and a number of churches, warehouses, and restaurants...