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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 VI: Office Records

The calculations and drawings in this section are drawings about structural problems, not for specific buildings. They function as technical exercises for the development of Candela's ideas. There are several files concerning Candela's business collaboration with Emilio Pérez Piñero, a promising Spanish architect known for his work on deployable, and in some cases mobile, reticular structures; including a dome at Salvador Dali's Theatre-Museum. Pérez Piñero died in a car accident at age 37.

Subseries 1: Calculations


Box 30 Folder 01 Calculation Tables, undated

Includes negatives, book photocopies


Box 30 Folder 02 Calculation Tables, 1967

Includes printed material


Box 30 Folder 03 Calculation Tables for Long Cylindric Domes, undated

Includes book photocopies


Box 30 Folder 04 Calculation Tables HYPAR (Hyperbolic Paraboloid Shape), undated


Box 30 Folder 05 Calculation Tables-Originals, undated

Includes printed material


Box 30 Folder 06 Calculations Concrete Shells for Domes, undated

Includes printed material


Box 30 Folder 07 Calculo del Area del Paraboloide (intentos), undated

A note in the folder suggests these calculations were located in front of the folder: Centro Electrónico de Calculo 24-40-00 apt. 420 inf. Bertrar


Box 30 Folder 08 Cálculos, undated

Includes calculations for Pinedo Deportes, Macorra, Casa en Cautla, Guardería Pinedo, Loma Bonita


Box 30 Folder 09 Cálculos - Almacenadora S.A., undated


Box 30 Folder 10 Cálculos ALA (5 placas), undated


Box 30 Folder 11 Cálculos ALA Aerobloque, undated

Includes the Calculation Report of Proyecto de Bodega en la Calle de Lago Xochimilco - Col. Xochimancas. Memoria de los Cálculos de Estructura.


Box 30 Folder 12 Calculos Brown Roof, 1969

Structural calculations for the Brown roof


Box 30 Folder 13 Casa de la Cultura Honduras, undated

Structural calculations for the "Casa de la Cultura" Honduras


Box 30 Folder 14 Cubierta Colgante, undated

Structural calculations for the hanging roof


Box 30 Folder 15 Diversas Losas Prismaticas, undated

Miscellaneous calculations


Box 30 Folder 16 Drawings and calculations of roof structure, undated


Box 30 Folder 17 Hampstead School / Hypars, undated

Miscellaneous calculations (In Collaboration with Praeger-Kavanagh-Waterbury Engineers - Architects)


Box 31 Folder 01 Memorias de Cálculos Desconocidas de Paraguas, undated


Box 31 Folder 02 Memorias de los calculos de la Estructura de la Cubierta, 1958


Box 31 Folder 03 Miscellaneous, undated

Business card, art show invitation and unknown structural calculations


Box 31 Folder 04 Miscellaneous Calculation Reports, 1950, undated

Memoria de Cálculos: "Bodegas en la Aduana de Mexico D.F.," "Auditorio de Maracaibo en Venezuela," "Ciudad Universitaria - Pabellón de Rayos Cósmicos," "Cubierta de Concreto Armado Para el Casino del Hotel San Juan de Puerto Rico"; other miscellaneous


Box 31 Folder 05 Miscellaneous Calculations, undated

"Isosonal Domes"


Box 31 Folder 06 Miscellaneous documents, 1961-1962

Calculations, drawings and payrolls from ALA S.A.


Box 31 Folder 07 Primeras Hojas para las Memorias de Calculo del Depto. Central de los Paraguas, 1963


Box 31 Folder 08 Reprints Removed, undated

Drawings (6) Structural Calculations; "Cubierta de Cascaron para el Restaurant de la Casa de la Radio en Dinamarca."


Oversize 01 Folder 03 Structural Calculations, undated

Miscellaneous structural calculations


Box 31 Folder 09 Torsion Calculation Tables, undated

Subseries 2: Drawings


Box 31 Folder 10 Drawings, undated

Photocopies


Box 31 Folder 11 Drawings, undated

Photocopies


Box 31 Folder 12 Drawings, calculations of roof, undated

Includes sketches and calculation tables


Box 31 Folder 13 Figuras Paraboloides, undated


Box 31 Folder 14 Paraboloide Triangular de Esquina, undated

Subseries 3: Emilio Pérez Piñero


Box 31 Folder 15 Candela, Felix. Obituary for Emilio Perez Piñero., 1972 Jul 17


Box 31 Folder 16 Emilio Pérez Piñero; Arquitectura, 1972

(Madrid), Jul-Aug 1972 (number dedicated to Pérez Piñero). The magazine includes the article: Candela, Félix, "Emilio Pérez Piñero." The folder includes Newspaper clippings about the death of Emilio Pérez Piñero


Box 31 Folder 17 Emilio Pérez Piñero, 1968-1970

Correspondence Emilio Pérez Piñero and Félix Candela. Cost estimates. Correspondence Caltécnica, Yves de Vestel, Jacinto Pazos de Provens, Fernando Cassinello, J.V. Tyrrell, Elliot Mesnick, R.W. Hutchings, Jaime Moreno, Roger H. Corbetta and James Vann.


Box 31 Folder 18 Emilio Pérez Piñero / NASA Houston, 1970

Miscellaneous documents, papers and pictures related to NASA; includes correspondence with Charles Halkinshaw


Box 32 Folder 01 Emilio Pérez Piñero, 1969-1972, undated

Miscellaneous geodesic dome drawings. Pérez Piñero's obituary by Felix Candela (Draft). Reply of Candela to an Obituary of Pérez Piñero written by Salvador Dalí. Correspondence with the US Navy Engineer J.V. Tyrell. Letter from Pérez Piñero to Candela.


Box 32 Folder 02 Emilio Pérez Piñero / Anoeta Velodrome, 1965-1972, undated

Photographs, calculations Anoeta Velodrome. U. S. Patent, reticular structure, May 25, 1965. "Estructuras..." Revista Arquitectura 1968; "Expandable..." P. Architecture June 1962. Obituary for Pérez Piñero by Candela. Correspondence with R. Celestino.


Box 32 Folder 03 Emilio Pérez Piñero / Gallasfarra (Murcia), 1972, undated

Photographs Anoeta Velodrome Model, Terragona Necropolis (including one with Salvador Dalí), 2 Photographs Vidriera Hipercubica Desplegable. Miscellaneous drawings. Pérez Piñero, Emilio, "Estructuras Reticulares Tridimensionales," Revista Arquitectura, 1968.

Subseries 4: Files


Box 32 Folder 04 Design for New Roof for Existing Stadium, undated

Includes drawings and photocopies of drawings


Box 32 Folder 05 Expenses Sports Palace, 1968

Includes bills, receipts


Box 32 Folder 06 Hughes Research Laboratories / Concrete Antenna Project, 1963-1964


Box 32 Folder 07 Project Concrete Shell Roof for Tennis Court, Chicago, 1974

Includes budgets and cost proposals, calculations, correspondence, 4 drawings, 1 article


Box 32 Folder 08 Project Records, 1959

Includes contract between La Compania Ciudad Labor, S.A. and Felix Candela, Ricardo de Robina, Leonardo Marti, and Jaime Crofton


Box 32 Folder 09 Proposed New Stadium for Real Madrid, 1973

Includes drawings, correspondence, calculations


Box 32 Folder 10 Proposed New Stadium for Real Madrid, 1973

Includes invoices, drawings, calculations, invoices, capacity analysis, photographs


Box 32 Folder 11 Real Madrid Stadium ("Bob Ward"), 1973

Presentation expenses. Correspondence with C. de Miguel, R. Rush and R. Ward

Subseries 5: Miscellaneous


Box 32 Folder 12 Cover project for Bull Ring, 1969

Estimates. Plaza se Toros, Orizaba


Box 33 Folder 01 Bill/Receipts, 1947-1971


Box 33 Folder 02 Indexes, undated

Índice de Artículos sobre Estructuras y Cálculos; Superficies Alabeadas, Paraboloides, Cilíndricas Largas, Losas Planas, Plasticidad Estructuras, Historia, Matemáticas, Elasticidad, Presas, Plasticidad Secciones, Estereo Estructuras, Cables; Microfilms.


Box 33 Folder 03 Shell Norms, 1973, undated


Box 33 Folder 04 Untitled, undated

Liste des Ouvrages Concernant Les Voiles Minces


Box 33 Folder 05 Untitled, undated

"Procedimiento de construccion de zapatas de cimentacion de concre to armado, mediante el acoplamiento de cuatro losas alabeadas para pro ducir una forma pseudo-piramidal."