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This book is a collection of essays centers on Flix Candela's departure from Mexico City and arrival in Chicago during the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s. Felix Candela, one of the most important and iconic architects of the 20th century, became world-renowned for his many captivating concrete-shell structures in Latin America and across the globe. Flix Candela From Mxico City to Chicago provides a unique lens in the specific political, economic,and material conditions that always surrounded, often promoted, and occasionally inhibited his work. To understand the timeframe of the 1970s, different essays had to delve into archives and conducted interviews with his former friends, students, and colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he was teaching. Many of these findings will be presented here for the first time, aiming to illuminate this complex constellation of inventions, events, and external forces that surrounded Candela's work.

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Alexander Eisenschmidt is a scholar, architect, and Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Architecture, where he teaches courses in history and theory as well as design studios. He holds a Diploma in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Leipzig, an M.Arch. from Pratt Institute, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining UIC, Eisenschmidt taught at Syracuse University and Pratt Institute in New York, and held a visiting position at the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been published extensively, ranging in venues from the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians to Grey Room and The Architect's Newspaper New York. He is the author of The Good Metropolis (Birkhauser, 2019), editor of City Catalyst (Architectural Design, 2012), lead-editor of Chicagoisms (Park Books, 2013), and from 2012 to 2013 was the reviews editor of the Journal of Architectural Education. Eisenschmidt has exhibited and curated internationally in venues such as the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy (2012), the Bi-City Biennale on Urbanism in Shenzhen, China (2015), the 4th Architecture Triennale in Lisbon, Portugal (2016), and the Seoul Biennale on Architecture (2019).

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