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Series V: Personal Papers
Series VI: Reference Publications

Félix Candela architectural records and papers, 1950-1984

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Series III: Professional Papers

Candela maintained a high professional profile throughout his career through lecturing, publication, and teaching. For correspondence regarding any of these activities, it is also good to check the correspondence series. Information about Candela's various teaching assignments could be found in a folder of correspondence under the dean of a particular school. In order to promote his company Candela wrote frequently and sought publicity for his works. For his own professional development, Candela translated engineering and socio-political works.

Subseries 1: Exhibitions


Box 18 Folder 07 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute / O'Neil Ford exhibition, 1967-1968

Includes brochures, photographs of Candela's work

Subseries 2: Faculty Papers


Box 18 Folder 08 Cornell University, 1964-1973

Faculty Papers, Course Materials, obituary for Martin Domínguez, Administrative papers (Professor-at-large annual reports 1968-9 and 1970-71, correspondece), Schedules.


Box 18 Folder 09 Cornell University, 1968-1970


Box 18 Folder 10 Cursos y Seminarios, undated

Teaching related material


Box 19 Folder 01 Escuela de Arquitectura / Cursos, 1955

Course description: "Curso de Resistencia de Materiales"; includes "56/85 Calcules de Caseta de Calderas …"


Box 19 Folder 02 Faculty Papers, 1981

Includes invitation and alumni newsletter


Box 19 Folder 03 International Association of Hispanic College Professors, 1968

Correspondence, includes 1 clipping


Box 19 Folder 04 Miscellaneous Documents, 1955, undated

"U.I.C.C. Shell Theater" Miscellaneous Magazine articles; "Plan de Estudios de la Escuela Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid Aprobado por Real Decreto de 23 de Octubre de 1914"; Course Syllabi


Box 19 Folder 05 School of Architecture, Mexico, 1954

Includes receipts

Subseries 3: Financial Records


Box 19 Folder 06 Contracts, 1957, 1959

Includes contract between Great Southwest Corporation and Felix Candela, and Producciones Vayda, S.A. and Felix Candela


Box 19 Folder 07 to 10 Robina


Box 20 Folder 01 to 02 Robina, 1972

Papers, documents, bills, cost estimates and correspondece of the Robina project. Apartment renovation for Miguel Aleman, 455 E. 51st St #4-A, New York. Letters to and from Dorothy Candela and Miguel Aleman, and Dorothy Candela and Javits attorneys.

Subseries 4: Lectures by Felix Candela


Box 20 Folder 03 "Estereoestructuras.", undated

Transcript of lecture given at La Casa del Arquitecto, Mexico, D.F. Unidentified publication, n.p.


Box 20 Folder 04 "La obra de Pier Luigi Nervi y su influencia en la arquitectura contemporanea.", undated

Includes lecture on "Personalidad y obra de Pier Luigi Nervi" delivered at Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, pp. 1-7. And published speech on "Arquitectura y estructuralismo"


Box 20 Folder 05 "La obra de Pier Luigi Nervi y su influencia en la arquitectura contemporanea.", undated

Includes lecture on "Personalidad y obra de Pier Luigi Nervi" delivered at Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, pp. 1-7. Speech delieved on the occasion of Ove Arup's 70th Birthday. Typescript. And unidentified speech translated into English.


Box 20 Folder 06 "Piccoli Volte per Grandi Coperti.", undated

Lecture presented before unidentified Italian audience, pp. 1-5. Includes text of speech "Structurral Form in the Service of Eloquent Architecture" and speech deliverd to the World Aquatic Association.


Box 20 Folder 07 Resumen de la conferencia dictada por el arq. Felix Candela dentro del ciclo del "Architecto de hoy y el arquitecto de manana.", 1969 Jul 02


Box 20 Folder 08 "Arquitecto de Hoy y El Arquitecto de Manana"


Box 20 Folder 09 "Structural applications of hyperbolic paraboloidical shells.", 1955 Jan

Presented at the ACI 50th annual convention, Denver, Colo., Feb. 24, 1954. Journal of the American Concrete Institute, 26, no. 5. Includes other articles.


Box 20 Folder 10 "Structural digressions around style in architecture." Pp. 1-5., undated

Includes article "Influence of Technology on Architectural Creativity", Prologue for book on Frei Otto, and article written with R. Fernandez.


Box 20 Folder 11 "Structural form in the service of eloquent architecture.", 1964 Apr 07

Photocopy. Lecture delievered by Felix Candela before the 25th National Conference on Church Architecture, pp. 1-7.


Box 20 Folder 12 Unidentified speech by Candela., undated

Includes manuscript and typescripts.


Box 20 Folder 13 Unidentified speech by Candela., undated

Typescript.

Subseries 5: Translations by Felix Candela


Box 21 Folder 01 Cálculos Viladoms, undated


Box 21 Folder 02 Candela's Translations, 1956-1979


Box 21 Folder 03 Girkmann, Karl. "Estructuras Laminares", undated

Translated from German by Félix Candela


Box 21 Folder 04 Hiperboloide por diferencias, 1958

Pucher, Adolf "El Calculo de Cascarones de Doble Curvatura, Mediante Ecuaciones en Diferencias Finitas." Translated from German by Félix Candela (1958)

Subseries 6: Writings about Felix Candela


Box 21 Folder 05 Candela in the Press / Interviews / Letters Regarding Exhibitions and Publishing, 1958

Articles from Archtiectural Record, Architectural Forum, Architectural Design, Architectural Review, Constructors and Engineers, Time, Concrete Quarterly, Arquitectos de Mexico, Bauen + Wohnen, other miscellaneous including newspaper clippings.


Box 21 Folder 06 Candela in the Press / Interviews / Letters Regarding Exhibitions and Publishing, 1959

Articles fromArchitectural Forum, Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, Liturgical Arts, Concrete Quarterly, Lecture by Felix Candela in London 1959, other miscellaneous including newspaper clippings.


Box 21 Folder 07 Candela in the Press / Interviews / Letters Regarding Exhibitions and Publishing, 1960

Articles fromConcrete Quarterly, Cement, Baukunst und Werkform, Calli, Arquitectura Cuba, L'Architecture d'Ajourd'hui, Current Biography Who's News and WhyVol. 21 No.7 July 1960 (entry on Felix Candela), other miscellaneous, newspaper clippings.


Box 21 Folder 08 Candela in the Press / Interviews / Letters Regarding Exhibitions and Publishing, 1961

Articles fromArchitecture Formes + Functions, AA, Artes de Mexico, Construccion Mexicana, Arquitectos de Mexico, Nouvelles de Mexique, Arquitectura, Calli Mexico, Scientific American, Cuadernos de Bellas Artes,other miscellaneous, newspaper clippings.


Box 22 Folder 01 Candela in the Press / Interviews / Letters Regarding Exhibitions and Publishing, 1962

Articles fromProgressive Architecture, L'Architecture d'Ajourd'houi, L'Oeil, Construcción Moderna, Arquitectura(Madrid), other miscellaneous. Interview to Candela inCalliCirca 1962. Brochure on the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Madrid.


Box 22 Folder 02 Candela in the Press, 1963

Articles fromCalli, Bauen + Wohnen, L'Architecture d'Ajourd'hui,other miscellaneous including newspaper clippings.


Box 22 Folder 03 Candela in the Press / Interviews / Letters Regarding Exhibitions and Publishing, 1964

Articles fromDomus, Arquitectos de Mexico, Architectural Forum, Concrete Construction, Construccion Mexicana, Architekten, L'Architecture d'Ajourd'hui,other miscellaneous including newspaper clippings.


Box 22 Folder 04 Candela in the Press / Interviews / Letters Regarding Exhibitions and Publishing, 1965

Articles fromZodiac, The Mexico Quarterly, Calli,other miscellaneous including newspaper clippings.


Box 22 Folder 05 Candela in the Press / Interviews / Letters Regarding Exhibitions and Publishing, 1966-1967

Articles fromArquitectura Mexico, Progressive Architecture, Construccion Moderna, Architectural Review, Architectural Record, New Yorker, other miscellaneous including newspaper clippings.


Box 22 Folder 06 Candela in the Press / Interviews / Letters Regarding Exhibitions and Publishing, 1961, undated

Miscellaneous including newspaper clippings.


Box 22 Folder 07 Candela in the Press / Interviews / Letters Regarding Exhibitions and Publishing, 1968

Articles fromBuilding Construction, Time, Architectural Design, AIA Journal, Arquitectura Mexico, Bauen + Wohnen, Calli,other miscellaneous including newspaper clippings.


Box 22 Folder 08 Candela in the Press / Interviews / Letters Regarding Exhibitions and Publishing, 1969

Articles from Archtiectural Record, Civil Engineering, Bauen + Wohnen,other miscellaneous, including newspaper clippings.


Box 22 Folder 09 Arquitecto del "Nuevo Estadio" del Real Madrid, undated


Box 23 Folder 01 Article about Candela in Progressive Architecture, Jul 1955


Box 23 Folder 02 Articles, 1956-1964

Includes drawing and photograph from Roundtable on Urbanism in Bogota 1956, and fliers from conferences and seminars


Box 23 Folder 03 Articles, 1965


Box 23 Folder 04 Articles, 1971


Box 23 Folder 05 Articles / Clippings / Fliers, 1961-1981


Box 23 Folder 06 Articles about Candela, 1956-1957


Box 23 Folder 07 Articles about Candela, 1959-1967


Box 23 Folder 08 Articles about Candela, undated

Includes the publicationsStructure, Iglesia de Medalla Milagrosa, Architectura/Mexico


Box 23 Folder 09 Articulos sobre Candela, 1953-1958, undated

Pamphlets, clippings, and articles fromFelix Candela: Shell Froms, Business Week, Architectural Forum, Progressive Architecture, Concrete Quarterly, Arts & Architecture, Bauwelt,other miscellaneous.


Box 23 Folder 10 Articulos sobre Candela, 1953-1962, undated

Pamphlets, clippings, and articles fromCasabella, Holiday, Architectural Review, Instituto Tecnico de la Construccion y del Cemento, Architectural Forum, Concrete Quarterly, Domus,other miscellaneous.


Box 23 Folder 11 Articulos sobre Candela, 1955-1962, undated

Pamphlets, clippings, and articles fromNew Mezico Quarterly, Progressive Architecture, Arquitectura (Madrid), Concrete Quarterly, L'Oeil, Life, L'a, Architecture d'Ajourd'hui, Ajourd'hui,other miscellaneous.


Box 23 Folder 12 Articulos sobre Candela, 1961-1968

Miscellaneous pamphlets, clippings, and articles fromEl Sol de Mexico, Passport' 68(American Express Guide to Mexico City),Informes de la Construccion, Design in Steel, Scientific American, Architectural Forum.


Box 23 Folder 13 Bibliographies, undated


Box 24 Folder 01 Buschiazzo, Félix E. Félix Candela, 1961

Buenos Aires: Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 1961 (2 copies)


Box 24 Folder 02 Dibujos de Paraboloides / Memoria de Calculos Iglesia de San Pedro Martir, Arquitecto G. Escudero, 1952-1965, undated

Drawings and texts including blueprints of the "Crystal Palace" project in London dated Sep. 1965, letter to the director of the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura U.N.A.M. Jul. 1963, other miscellaneous including sketches and structural calculations.


Box 24 Folder 03 "Le Superficie Rigate Nelle Strutture Architettoniche.", 1964-1965

Study written by Luigi Margani on Felix Candela


Box 24 Folder 04 Metro (Work by Felix Candela), 1969

Articles from Fortune, Life, other miscellaneous


Box 24 Folder 05 Mexico City Subway, 1969

"El Metro" Excelsior; "Estación San Lázaro" Excelsior; "Sistema Metropolitano de Transporte de la Ciudad de Mexico" (Félix Candela worked in the "San Lázaro" Station which appear in these documents).


Box 24 Folder 06 Miscellaneous "Iberica"

Spanish Politics. Includes articles by and about Candela.


Box 24 Folder 07 Miscellaneous Articles on Félix Candela, 1953-1955

Progressive Architecture,other miscellaneous.


Box 24 Folder 08 Miscellaneous Articles on Félix Candela (Picture of Candela et. al.), 1957

"Félix Candela"Concrete Quarterly33, Apr-Jun 1957; "Félix Candela"Team News - British Commonwealth Games,Edmonton '78 Vol. 1, No. 1: Castiglioni, Enrico. "Che Cos'e Una Chiesa" Domus 403 Giugno 1963; Ocho Columnas, Guadalajara, 6 de Junio de 1975.


Box 24 Folder 09 Miscellaneous magazines, newspaper clippings on Candela, 1955-1966, undated

Articles from Excelsior, Engineering News Record, The Dallas Morning, El Sol de Mexico, The New York Herald Tribune,other miscellaneous including newspaper clippings. Many duplicated.


Box 24 Folder 10 Miscellaneous magazines, newspaper clippings on Candela, 1959, undated

Articles fromThe Sphere, Building Materials, The Manchester Guardian,other miscellaneous including newspaper clippings. Many duplicated.


Box 25 Folder 01 Miscellaneous magazines, newspaper clippings on Candela, 1959-1963, undated

Articles fromEl Sol de Mexico,other miscellaneous including newspaper clippings. Many duplicated.


Box 25 Folder 02 Miscellaneous magazines, newspaper clippings on Candela, 1973, undated

Articles fromPueblo, Ya, Nuevo Diario,other miscellaneous including newspaper clippings. Many duplicated.


Box 25 Folder 03 Miscellaneous Pamphlets and Articles, 1968,-1971, undated

Mexico '68, "Geodetic Gymnasium Sags in Severe Weather", "Structural Steelwork of the "Ahoy" Sports Hall at Rotterdam (Holland)", "Estructuras Reticulares Tridimensionales" Emilio Pérez Piñero, other miscellaneous.


Box 25 Folder 04 Newspaper clippings, 1958-1959

Miscellaneous clippings from Excelsior, The Times, Novedades.


Box 25 Folder 05 Newspaper clippings, 1968

Miscellaneous clippings from Venezuelan newspapers. Two small photographs of Félix Candela.


Oversize 01 Folder 01 Palacio de los Deportes, 1967-1968, undated

Articles fromPalacio de los Deportes, Bauen + Wohnen, Tiempo, Nouvelles du Mexique, Calli, Saturday Review,other miscellaneous including newspaper clippings.


Oversize 01 Folder 02 Palacio de los Deportes, 1967-1968, undated

Articles fromHoliday, Life, Construccion Mexicana, db, Pace, Calli, Construccion Noticias, Arquitectura, Copper, Cuprum,other miscellaneous including newspaper clippings.


Box 25 Folder 06 Piso, 2007

Article on El Pabellon de Rauos Consmicos


Box 25 Folder 07 Miscellaneous Clippings, 1954-1978

4 items


Box 26 Folder 01 Real Madrid Stadium/Madrid's Urbanism, 1973-1975

Folder only with clippings and articles, includes 3 aerial photographs


Box 26 Folder 02 Saturday Review, June 22, 1968, 1968 Jun

Articles on Mexico Olympics. Herrera, Philip "The Daring Designers" (Palacio de los Deportes). Includes photocopy of description of the Palacio, clipping about Montreal Stadium


Box 26 Folder 03 Speech by Lydian Redondo, undated

Subseries 7: Writings by Felix Candela


Box 26 Folder 04 Arquitectura (España), año 13, n. 145, Enero 1971, 1971 Jan

Candela, Felix "La Explosion Demografica."


Box 26 Folder 05 "Arquitectura y estructuralismo.", Oct 8 1964-Oct 13 1964

Jornadas Internacionales de Arquitectura,doc. no. 20, pp. 1-20.


Box 26 Folder 06 Articles, 1952-1957

Miscellaneous drafts. Candela, Félix. "La Crisis del Estilo Internacional."


Box 26 Folder 07 Articles, 1955-1961

Includes drafts, articles and an annotated list of projects from Félix Candela.


Box 26 Folder 08 Articles, 1952-1963

"Hacia una Nueva Filosofia de las Estructuras" and republications in misc. journals


Box 26 Folder 09 Articles, 1971


Box 26 Folder 10 Articles, undated

Miscellaneous drafts including "Articulos Iniciados" and "Practical analysis of hyperstatic arches."


Box 26 Folder 11 Articles, undated

Miscellaneous drafts. "Articulos iniciados, 1950"


Box 26 Folder 12 Articles, undated

Miscellaneous drafts. Candela, Félix. "The Architect and the Structural Design."


Box 26 Folder 13 Articles and Correspondence, 1965-1974, undated

Candela, Felix "Dictadura No, Democracia Si"; Candela, Felix "España Democracia Constitucion" Sep 15 1965 and correspondence with Rafael de la Hoz and Maria Perez Sheriff.


Box 26 Folder 14 Articles by Candela, 1953

"Espacios/Estereoestructuras - conferencia y articulo 1953", incl. some original drawings


Box 27 Folder 01 Articles by Candela, 1953-1954

"Divagaciones Estructurales en Torno al Estilo", "Stereo-Structures" and letters to the editor in response


Box 27 Folder 02 Articles by Candela, 1953-1955

"Hangares de Concreto en el Aeropuerto de Marsalla/Espacios - 1953", "Estereoestructuras", "Encusta Espacios/Iglesia de la Virgen Milagrosa"


Box 27 Folder 03 Articles by Candela, 1954-1956

"Les Voutes Minces et L'espace Architectural", "Il Guscio sinonimo della Delimitazione dello Spazio" and "Estoreostructuras"


Box 27 Folder 04 Articles by Candela, 1958

articles on the hyperbolic papraboloid fromArchitectural Record,sketches on original folder


Box 27 Folder 05 Articles by Candela, 1959

"Cascarones de Concreto Armado". "Estereostructuras"


Box 27 Folder 06 Articles by Candela, 1959

DialogosMay-June 1971,Bulletin of the International Association of Forced Shell Structuresno.40,Planificacion Espacios4142


Box 27 Folder 07 Articles by Candela, 1967

articles on the Sydney Opera House


Box 27 Folder 08 Articles, Manuscripts, 1965-1970

"La Contaminacion del Medio Ambiente" (2 copies), "Espanaa Democracia Construction" Iberica vol.13 no.9 15 Sept. 1965, "El Construcionalismo" Iberica vol.14 no. 11 15 Nov. 1966, "Dictadura No. Democricia Si" Iberuca vol.15 no.4 15 Abril 1967.


Box 27 Folder 09 Booklets written by Felix Candela, 1953, undated

Candela, Felix, "Skew Shell Utilized in Unusual Roof" (3 copies)


Box 27 Folder 10 Booklets written by Felix Candela, undated

Candela, Felix, "Formulas Generales para el Calculo de Esfuerzos en Cascarones Paraboloides-Hiperbolicos" (3 copies)


Box 27 Folder 11 Booklets written by Felix Candela, undated

Candela, Felix, "General Formulas for Membrane Stresses in Hyperbolic Paraboloidical Shells" (3 copies)


Box 27 Folder 12 Candela, Félix, "Notes on The Design of hyperbolic Paraboloidical Concrete Shells.", undated

Draft


Box 27 Folder 13 Candela, Felix: "La Crisis Ecologica Mundial.", 1970 Oct

Arquitectura(España), año 12, n. 142, Octubre 1970


Box 27 Folder 14 Candela, Felix: "La Crisis Ecologica Mundial.", 1971 Jan

Devenirn. 2, Enero 2 de 1971


Box 27 Folder 15 Candela, Felix: "La Explosion Demografica.", 1971 May

Dialogos n. 39, Mayo-Junio 1971. 2 copies


Box 27 Folder 16 Drafts, 1959, undated

Miscellaneous drafts of conferences, Candela, Félix. "La Psicosis Sísmica y sus Consecuencias," 2 portraits of Félix Candela. Notebook on what appears to be a draft for an autobiography.


Box 27 Folder 17 "El paraboloide hiperbolico." Manuscript., undated


Box 27 Folder 18 Escuela de Arquitectura / Cursos, 1964-1965, undated

Folio: "Resumen de Características y Recomendaciones para el "Centro de Investigaciones Arquitectónicas," U.N.A.M. Miscellaneous university related documents. Candela, Félix "El Paraboloide Hiperbólico. Geometría, Posibilidades Constructivas y..."


Box 27 Folder 19 Espana Democracia Constitucion, 1954-1978

Including version published in Iberica Vol.13 no. 9 15 Sept. 1965


Box 28 Folder 01 Estereoestructuras, undated

"Estereoestructuras" Booklet printed by Cubiertas Ala S.A. with their work. (3 copies)


Box 28 Folder 02 IASS Symposium, Calgary July 1972., 1972

Paper presented in the IASS Symposium: Candela, Felix "Shell Structures and Climatic Influences" Calgary July 1972 and correspondence related to the symposium.


Box 28 Folder 03 Iglesia de la Virgen Milagrosa Examen Profesional E.N.A. Félix Candela 1967, 1967

Includes Candela, Félix. "Hacia una Nueva Filosofía de las Estructuras." and blueprints of the church. 2 copies


Box 28 Folder 04 "La forma estructural al servicio de una elocuente arquitectura religiosa.", Apr 7 1964

Lectured delievered at before National Conference in Church Architecture in Dallas, typescript, pp. 1-9.


Box 28 Folder 05 "Las Structuras de Futuro", 1969

Calli 44


Box 28 Folder 06 Manuscripts and notes, 1971


Box 28 Folder 07 Manuscripts and notes, undated

handwritten


Box 28 Folder 08 Manuscript, Article, undated

handwritten


Box 28 Folder 09 to 10 Miscellaneous, 1951-1967, undated

Candela, Félix, "El Escándalo de la Opera de Sydney", Candela, Félix. "Stereo-Structures," miscellaneous architectural magazine articles and structural papers.


Box 28 Folder 11 Miscellaneous documents, 1964-1972

Candela, Félix, "New Architecture" The Maillart Papers, 2nd Nat. Conference on Civil Engineering: Oct. 1972, Princeton U.;Acta del Concurso Internacional de Ante- Proyectos Euro-Kursaal-San Sebastián 24 de Mayo, 1965.Correspondence with E. de Oteyza.


Box 28 Folder 12 Miscellaneous documents, 1962

Candela, Félix, "La Explosión Demográfica" Cuadernos del Seminario de Historia (Devenir) UNAM; Leaflet for the World Conference on Shell Structures, Sept. 30 to Oct. 4, 1962 San Francisco, California


Box 28 Folder 13 Miscellaneous structural booklets, 1959-1978, undated

Candela, Félix, "Simple Concrete Shell Structures" (3 copies); "Folded Hypar Shells"; " Formulas Generales para el Calculo de Esfuerzos..."; "Skew Shell Utilized in Unusual Roof" (2); "Structural Applications of Hyperbolic..." (2); other miscellaneous.


Box 28 Folder 14 Newspaper Clippings and Drawings, 1964-1966


Box 28 Folder 15 Notebook, undated


Box 28 Folder 16 Pamphlets written by Felix Candela, 1955, undated

"Simple Concrete Shell Structures" Booklet printed by Cubiertas Ala S.A. with their work; Candela, Felix "Structural Applications of Hyperbolic Paraboloidical Shells" (3 copies); Candela, Felix "Folded Hypar Shells" (3 copies)


Box 28 Folder 17 Paraboloides, Carpeta No. 2, undated

Letter from John Zerning, 08/27/1969; Zerning, J. "Structural Froms..."; 35 mm negatives (images of a text from A.L.A. s.a.); Candela, F.. "Estudio del Paraboloide Hiperbólico Sometido a su Propio Peso" 1956; Miscellaneous structural calculations.


Box 28 Folder 18 "Past and future of shell structures."

"Past and future of shell structures", "La Contaminacion del Medio Ambiente", and other misc. articles


Box 29 Folder 01 "Polemica sobre arquitectura.", 1975 Mar-1975 Apr

Dialogo con el Arq. Felix Candela y Arq. Francisco Carbajal de la Cruz. Calli no. 65, pp. 11-17.


Box 29 Folder 02 Political Writings, 1965, 1970-1971

"Cuando Espana sea Espana"Tiempo25 Oct. 1965, include volumes ofIberica


Box 29 Folder 03 Political Writings, undated, 1965-1966

"Spain Democracy Constitution"IbericaVol.13 no. 9 Sept. 15 1965,IbericaVol.14 no.10 Oct 15 1966, unidentified fragment.


Box 29 Folder 04 "Proyecta de centro de Desportes en Kuwait", 1969 Dec

Arquitecturan.132 Diciembre 1960 (3 copies)


Box 29 Folder 05 Published Articles by Candela, undated, 1970-1972

"La Explosion Demografia," republishedDiagolosno.39 mayo-junio 1971, "La Crisis Ecologica Mundial" (2 versions)


Box 29 Folder 06 "Spain Democracy Constitution", 1965

Iberica for a Free SpainVol.13 no.9 Sept 15, 1965


Box 29 Folder 07 Text and drawings of Hyperbolic Parabolids., 1958-1963, undated

Candela, Félix. "Stress Analysis for Any Hyperbolic Paraboloid."Architectural RecordJuly, 1958; "Stress Analysis for Any Hyperbolic Paraboloid Part 2."Architectural RecordAugust, 1958. Articles fromArchitectural Record. Miscellaneous drawings.


Box 29 Folder 08 "The different shapes of roof construction over swimming and sports establishment.", undated

Lecture presented by Candela at the World Aquatic Congress in Sindelfingen, Germany.


Box 29 Folder 09 The Phillips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, 1958

Includes a letter from Alvaro Sánchez, Secretary of the School of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, who gave the catalog as a gift to Candela. Estudio del Paraboloide Hiperbólico Sometido a su Propio Peso (handwritten article).


Box 29 Folder 10 "Understanding the hyperbolic paraboloid.", 1958 Jul

Architectural Record,pp. 191-216. (3 copies)


Box 29 Folder 11 Unidentified manuscripts., undated


Box 29 Folder 12 Untitled, 1972, undated

Tedesko, Anton. "Unusual Solutions"; Unknown writing in Candela's handwriting; newspaper clipping of the church of in Becerril de la Sierra


Box 29 Folder 13 Writing, Correspondence, 1974-1975

Candela, Félix. "Influencia de la Tecnología en la Creatividad Arquitectónica."; "Influence de la Technologie sur la Creativite Architecturale."; "The Influence of Technology in Architectural Creativity." Correspondence with R. de la Hoz, L. Bakhtiar.


Box 29 Folder 14 Writings by Candela, 1959-1964

Candela, Felix "Structural Form in the Service if Eloquent Architecture." for the 25th National Conference on Church Architecture, Dallas, April 7, 1964 / Laminas de hormigon armado" in Arquitectura (Madrid) October 1959 (2 copies)


Box 29 Folder 15 Writings by Candela, 1972 Oct

The Maillart Papers from the National Conference on Civil Engineering: History, Heritage and the Humanities. "New Architecture" by Felix Candela (3 Copies)


Box 29 Folder 16 Writings by Candela and Brochure, 1970, undated

Candela, F. "The Application of Shell Structures" Bulletin of the Int. Association for Shell Structures n. 40; Candela, F. "La Explosion Demografica" Arquitectura n. 142 Oct 1970 (3 copies); "The Association of Prager-Kavanagh-Waterbury & Felix Candela" (3)


Box 29 Folder 17 Writings; Reference about Candela, 1954-1978


Box 29 Folder 18 to 19 XII World Congress of the International Union of Architects, 1975, undated

"Reporter's Meeting" XII World Congress of the IUA, F.C. "Influencia de la Tecnología en la Creatividad Arquitectónica," J.L. Sert, "Stimulating Architectural Creativity," Correspondence with F. Otto, R. Gutbrod, Other miscellaneous.Separated into 2 fol.