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Félix Candela

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Félix Candela Outeriño (January 27, 1910 – December 7, 1997) was a Spanish and Mexican architect who was born in Madrid and at the age of 26, emigrated to Mexico, acquiring double nationality. [1]

48 relations: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Architect, Architecture, Architecture of Mexico, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Azcapotzalco, Bacardi, Casino de la Selva, City of Arts and Sciences, Colonia Narvarte, Colonia San Rafael, Columbia University, Coyoacán, Cuautitlán, Cuernavaca, Dome, Durham, North Carolina, Eduardo Torroja, Force, Institution of Structural Engineers, L'Oceanogràfic, Madrid, Metro Candelaria, Metro San Lázaro, Mexican Stock Exchange, Mexicans, Mexico, Mexico City Metro, Monterrey, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Palacio de los Deportes, Reinforced concrete, Rugby union, Santiago Calatrava, Skiing, Solid mechanics, Spain, Spaniards, Spaniards in Mexico, Structural engineering, Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, Tacuba, Tension (physics), Thin-shell structure, University of Illinois at Chicago, Valencia, Xochimilco, 1968 Summer Olympics.

Adolfo Ruiz Cortines

Adolfo Tomás Ruiz Cortines (December 30, 1890 – December 3, 1973) was President of Mexico from 1952 to 1958, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

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Architect

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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Architecture of Mexico

Many of Mexico's older architectural structures, including entire sections of Pre-Hispanic and colonial cities, have been designated World Heritage sites for their historical and artistic significance.

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Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library is a library located in Avery Hall on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University in the New York City.

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Azcapotzalco

Azcapotzalco (Āzcapōtzalco,, from āzcapōtzalli “anthill” + -co “place”; literally, “In the place of the anthills”) is one of the 16 municipalities (municipios) into which Mexico's Mexico City is divided.

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Bacardi

Bacardi Limited is the largest privately held, family-owned spirits company in the world.

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Casino de la Selva

The Hotel Casino de la Selva (Forest Casino Hotel) was a hotel and casino located in the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico.

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City of Arts and Sciences

The City of Arts and Sciences (Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències; Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias) is an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain.

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Colonia Narvarte

Colonia Narvarte is the commonly used name for an area in the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City.

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Colonia San Rafael

Colonia San Rafael is a colonia of the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City, just west of the historic city center.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Coyoacán

Coyoacán is a borough (delegación) of Mexico City and the former village which is now the borough’s “historic center.” The name comes from Nahuatl and most likely means “place of coyotes,” when the Aztecs named a pre-Hispanic village on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco which was dominated by the Tepanec people.

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Cuautitlán

Cuautitlán is a city and municipality in the State of Mexico, just north of the northern tip of the Federal District (Distrito Federal) within the Greater Mexico City urban area.

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Cuernavaca

Cuernavaca (kʷawˈnaːwak "near the woods") is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico.

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Dome

Interior view upward to the Byzantine domes and semi-domes of Hagia Sophia. See Commons file for annotations. A dome (from Latin: domus) is an architectural element that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.

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Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Eduardo Torroja

Eduardo Torroja y Miret, (27 August 1899 – 15 June 1961) was a Spanish structural engineer and a pioneer in the design of concrete shell structures.

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Force

In physics, a force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object.

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Institution of Structural Engineers

The Institution of Structural Engineers is a professional body for structural engineering based in the United Kingdom.

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L'Oceanogràfic

L'Oceanogràfic (El Oceanográfico, "The Oceanographic") is an oceanarium situated in the east of the city of Valencia, Spain, where different marine habitats are represented.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole.

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Metro Candelaria

Metro Candelaria is a station on the Mexico City Metro.

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Metro San Lázaro

San Lázaro is a station on the Mexico City Metro.

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Mexican Stock Exchange

The Mexican Stock Exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores), commonly known as Mexican Bolsa, Mexbol, or BMV, is one of two stock exchanges in Mexico, the other being BIVA - Bolsa Institucional de Valores.

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Mexicans

Mexicans (mexicanos) are the people of the United Mexican States, a multiethnic country in North America.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mexico City Metro

The Mexico City Metro (Metro de la Ciudad de México), officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, often shortened to STC, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City, including some municipalities in Mexico State.

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Monterrey

Monterrey is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico.

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National Autonomous University of Mexico

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, - literal translation: Autonomous National University of Mexico, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico.

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Palacio de los Deportes

Palacio de los Deportes is an indoor arena located in Mexico City, Mexico.

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete (RC) (also called reinforced cement concrete or RCC) is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are counteracted by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is a Spanish architect, structural design and analyst engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms.

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Skiing

Skiing can be a means of transport, a recreational activity or a competitive winter sport in which the participant uses skis to glide on snow.

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Solid mechanics

Solid mechanics is the branch of continuum mechanics that studies the behavior of solid materials, especially their motion and deformation under the action of forces, temperature changes, phase changes, and other external or internal agents.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spaniards

Spaniards are a Latin European ethnic group and nation.

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Spaniards in Mexico

Spanish Mexicans are citizens or residents of Mexico who identify as Spanish as a result of nationality or ancestry.

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Structural engineering

Structural engineering is that part of civil engineering in which structural engineers are educated to create the 'bones and muscles' that create the form and shape of man made structures.

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Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid

The Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, ETSAM) is the superior school of architecture of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain.

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Tacuba

Tacuba is a municipality in the Ahuachapán department of El Salvador.

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Tension (physics)

In physics, tension may be described as the pulling force transmitted axially by the means of a string, cable, chain, or similar one-dimensional continuous object, or by each end of a rod, truss member, or similar three-dimensional object; tension might also be described as the action-reaction pair of forces acting at each end of said elements.

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Thin-shell structure

Thin-shell structures are also called plate and shell structures.

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University of Illinois at Chicago

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is a public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Valencia

Valencia, officially València, on the east coast of Spain, is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona, with around 800,000 inhabitants in the administrative centre.

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Xochimilco

Xochimilco (Xōchimīlco) is one of the 16 ''mayoralities'' (Spanish: alcaldías) or boroughs within Mexico City.

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1968 Summer Olympics

The 1968 Summer Olympics (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico, in October 1968.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félix_Candela

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