Eminent Structural Engineer: Felix Candela—Structural Artist of Thin Shell Concrete Forms (1910-1997)

摘要

From all these works, the same pattern emerges. Candela the builder makes a simplified analysis to jus-tify the engineering design and then takes the overall form, which sometimes comes from somewhere else, and plays with it to make it structural art. This art can only arise when that play is disciplined by efficiency and economy. As Candela explained: "But an efficient and economical structure has not necessarily to be ugly. Beauty has no price tag and there is never one single solution to an engineering problem. Therefore, it is always possible to modify the whole or the parts until the ugliness disappears".