Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potpourri of fields which the University considers to belong among music, the arts, or literature. This winter's speaker is architect Felix Candela, who entered the profession on the theory that it "sounded as good as any other" and is now one of the most skillful designers of thin-slab concrete structures in the hemisphere...
Thin sheets of saddle-shaped concrete typify Mr. Candela's architecture; a geometrician would describe them as sections of a hyperbolic paraboloid. Their most common application is in roofs for large buildings, since an inch-and-a half thick slab shaped in this way requires only one support for every 2500 square feet, far fewer than a flat surface would require...
...story luxury hotel, a 34-story office building, and parking facilities for 3,000 cars. Only the sub-street-level waiting room and the train concourse will be kept of the old Penn Station. In order not to interrupt train service, the builders will install a reinforced concrete slab at street level before razing the superstructure of the station...
20th Century City. Architect Gruen, famed for spacious shopping centers (Eastland in Detroit) and a well-publicized zeal for turning downtown areas into car-free malls (Kalamazoo, Mich.), designed the slab-shaped buildings slim and high to take advantage of the island's Manhattan view and allow for landscaping. The lower buildings, varying in height and snaking along the island's length, would be topped with gardens and windbreaks for recreational facilities. The air-conditioned pedestrian concourse below would be sunlit (through glassed holes in the roof) and undulating to kill the monotony of long straight corridors...
...that survived two decaded of Stalinist criticism as anti-esthetic to become, now, much admired. Then Le Corbusier flew to Brazil (in the old Graf Zeppelin), to advise a team that included Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa on the designing of Rio's 1936 Ministry of Education, a slab on pilotis with a new feature: a honeycomb of sun-shading breeze-admitting vanes at the windows, called brises-soleīl. That single example spread to give all the major cities of Latin America, notably Brasilia, their present look of clean, high, colorful, modern business buildings...