Candela Isler Müther : : Positions on Shell Construction. Positionen zum Schalenbau. Posturas sobre la construcción de cascarones. / / Rainer Schützeichel, Matthias Beckh, Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes, Matthias Ludwig, Andreas Schätzke.

Die Meister der Betonschalen Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts begann die Hochphase des Betonschalenbaus. Weltweit entstanden technisch avancierte Konstruktionen von aufsehenerregender Expressivität. Mit Félix Candela, Heinz Isler und Ulrich Müther nimmt dieses Buch exemplarisch drei Protagonisten dieser B...

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Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Three Cultures and Ways of Making Reinforced Concrete Shells
  • Relations between Félix Candela, Heinz Isler, and Ulrich Müther
  • Spaces for Industry. A Comparison of Modular Shell Systems by Félix Candela and Heinz Isler
  • Candela Isler Müther. A Photographic Essay
  • Félix Candela’s Hypar Groined Vaults. Mexican Contribution to the Development of Concrete Shells
  • Beautifully Shaped Forms. The Shells of Enrique de la Mora and Félix Candela
  • The Bodily Economies of Concrete Technologies
  • Félix Candela’s Last Shells in Mexico. The Roof Structures for Mexico City’s Underground Stations
  • Félix Candela’s Legacy in the United Kingdom
  • The Formative Years of Heinz Isler
  • Heinz Isler’s Experimental Approach to Form-Finding
  • From Foam to Form. The Peculiar First Free-form Shells of Heinz Isler
  • More than Concrete. Heinz Isler’s Projects in Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastics
  • (Re)presenting Shells. Heinz Isler’s Work on Display
  • “New Constructions”. The Beginnings of Shell Building in the German Democratic Republic
  • Safe at Last? The Fate of Ulrich Müther’s Magdeburg Hypar Shell in a Changing Society
  • The Music Pavilion in Sassnitz. A Shell Structure by Ulrich Müther in Collaboration with Dietmar Kuntzsch and Otto Patzelt
  • Ulrich Müther: Quantity or Quality?
  • Zusammenfassungen
  • Resúmenes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Picture Credits
  • Indices