Word: paraboloid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have finally learned what Rupp modestly calls "the Kentucky system." Freely translated, it means run, run, run and never, never miss. A perfectionist rather than an innovator, Rupp decries such newfangled tactics as the zone press defense which he sometimes uses but insists on calling a "stratified, transitional hyperbolic paraboloid." He relies on ten offensive plays, which his team practices with a devotion to duty unseen since the Spartans of ancient Greece...
...Dish engineering--The study will contemplate novel designs for the antenna beyond the usual paraboloid construction...
...prisoner of geometry." Candela is usually content to let the soaring geometry speak for itself, but with churches, he admits with a grin, "we refine a little." One of his most beautiful is the chapel in Lomas de Cuernavaca, done with Architect Guillermo Rosell. It is a pure hyperbolic paraboloid whose slender edges seem to float free and whose roof slopes from each end down to a skylight. Guarded by a tapering cross, it stands upon a lonely hill, surging toward the sky-a modern version of the mighty Gothic reach...
...first became interested in the hyperbolic paraboloid about ten years ago," Mr. Candela says. "Before then, some French engineers had experimented with the surface briefly (during the 1930's) and even built a few structures using it. But they failed to realize either the artistic possibilities, or the economic ones...
...mention of the economic aspects of hyperbolic paraboloid design is characteristic of Mr. Candela, an essentially pragmatic man. He rarely mentions one of his work's objects-aesthetic appeal, without bringing up the other-practicality. One cannot talk with Mr. Candela for more than about ten minutes without sensing the balance between these goals: 'We can build out of shell concrete cheaper than any other material in Mexico," he will say. And two minutes later, while drawing complex curves and surfaces on the back of an envelope, "I like that...