<div>Exhibition of Félix Candela in Berlin</div>

Last year, an exhibition was held in Madrid to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of their native, engineer and architect Félix Candela. The exhibition titled “Künstler der Konstruktion” (Artist of Construction) has now moved to Berlin, where it can be viewed from January 13 to February 28, 2011, at the Institute of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. The exhibition is accompanied by a lecture series “Félix Candela – What Remains of His Concrete Shells?” Both the exhibition and the lectures are open to the public and free of charge.
Candela won the national skiing championship in 1932 and two years later the title of Spanish rugby champion. He studied architecture but primarily worked as a construction entrepreneur and engineer. Today we admire his deep understanding of the relationships between structure and shape. Candela's shell creations were greatly influenced by the work of Spanish civil engineer Eduardo Torroja (1899-1961). In 1936, Candela received a scholarship to further his education in Germany, but this journey was hindered by the Spanish Civil War. On June 13, 1939, he arrived in Mexico, where he founded his own construction company in Acapulco and later worked in the USA. Candela's work includes more than 300 reinforced concrete shells and 900 projects created during the 1950s and 60s in Mexico. Among his most famous buildings are the Xochimilco restaurant in Mexico City and the bottling hall for Bacardi & Co.

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