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[spaceforrent]

did you know that there’s a tunnel under the lederle graduate research center

35mm

October 2022

[macthebearguy]

“This power is uncontrollable but immense. Say hello to super saiyan 5.” Amazing artwork by lederle on twitter!

[the-mandolorian]

Smashingly gorgeous

Iris Lily and Cattail Window , Lederle and Geissler c1904

[dd20century]

Felix Candela: Maestro of Geometry and Concrete

The work of Spanish-Mexican architect Felix Candela can only be classified as Mid-century Modern due to the period in which his structures were designed. One of the most prolific architects of the Twentieth Century, he was responsible for “more than 300 works and 900 projects” (1). His curvaceous work is closer in spirit to the work of more recent architects like Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Santiago Calatrava. In fact, Candela’s work greatly influenced many contemporary architects and designers.

Felix Candela, c. 1950. Image source.

Candela’s Student Years

Felix Candela Outeriño was born on January 27, 1910, in Madrid, Spain. (1, 2) As a young man he was very athletic; he enjoyed both skiing and rugby. (1) Candela studied at the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura (Madrid Superior Technical School of Architecture) there, he developed “a very keen sense of geometry” (2). This allowed him to assist his professors and tutor other students. He won several competitions as well. (1) Candela graduated in 1935, the year before the Spanish Civil War began.

Candela’s Life During the Spanish Civil War

Candela fought with the Republicans against General Francisco Franco.  He served as “Captain of Engineers for the Spanish Republic after a short period of time” (3). Later he was imprisoned in a concentration camp in France until the war’s end in 1939. Since Candela had backed the republic, he couldn’t go back to Franco’s Spain. He emigrated to Mexico and found himself in Mexico City.

Candela's New Life in Mexico

Arriving in Mexico City Felix Candela found himself among other artists and intellectuals who were forced to flee Spain.  At the time, Mexico was “emerging from a decade of revolution and another of reconstruction. Mexican architects and structural engineers were being called to envision and construct innovative, multifunction structures on the city’s unstable subsoil. Candela flourished in this environment” (2). In Mexico, he met and married Eladia Martin in 1941, and the two raised a family together. (1, 3)

Felix Candela, Cosmic Rays Pavilion (1953), Mexico City . Image source.

Candela’s Architectural Breakthrough

In 1950 Felix Candela, along with his siblings, Antonio and Julia, established the firm, Cubiertas ALA (2) which benefited from work from the Mexican Government, especially large projects like the Cosmic Rays Pavilion in 1953. It was at this time that Candela “debuted his experimental signature shell structures” of very thin reinforced concrete, some as thin as 1.5 centimeters. (4) He relied on his advanced knowledge of geometry regarding "shell design, he tended to rely on the geometric properties of the shell for analysis, instead of complex mathematical means” (1).

Candela’s Work with Geometry and Concrete

“Felix Candela attracted international attention in 1950 with his design (in collaboration with Jorge Gonzáles Reyna) for the Cosmic Rays Pavilion, Ciudad Universitaria (the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Villa Obregón, near Mexico City)” (4). Meanwhile, his firm completed over 800 industrial projects, most notably for Bacardi and Company (1953-55), Ciba Laboratories (1953) and Lederle Laboratories (1955). (4)

Felix Candela, Iglesia de la Medalla Milagrosa (1953-55), Mexico City. Image source.

Not all of Candela’s works were industrial. His masterwork “the Iglesia de la Medalla Milagrosa, or Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church, [was built] between 1953 and 1955” (5). The clients had envisioned a traditional Gothic church, but Candela “reinterpreted Gothic by using the hyperbolic paraboloid form to minimize material over a large space.” It was not until the construction started, the church committee realized they were not getting a traditional church. (5). The most impressive feature of the building is its interior with its “dramatic play of light and shadow that envelops and transports the worshiper” (2). Candela remarked, "It's about attaining an expressive interior space, a surrounding sculpture that one admires from the inside. But this sculpture cannot be capricious and arbitrary, since one has to respond to the external laws of structural equilibrium" (5).

Felix Candela, Las Manantiales Restaurant (1958), Xochimilco, Mexico. Image source.

Other notable designs from this period include Las Manantiales Restaurant (1958), “consisting of an octagonal groined vault” (2) that appears to float like a lily-pad float on the waters at Xochimilco. In 1957 Candela collaborated with architect Juan Sordo Madeleno on the La Jacaranda Night Club in Acapulco, Mexico. The structure was demolished during the 1970s. (6) Unlike his contemporaries in post-revolutionary Mexico, “Candela did not believe that architecture could rectify complex social problems” (2).

Candela’s Later Career

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Candela worked on several church projects: Chapel Lomas de Cuernavaca (1957), San José Obrero Church in Monterrey (1959), and the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Madrid (1962). Architect Enrique de La Mora worked on the later two projects with Candela. (3,4)

In 1960 Felix Candela was awarded the IStructE Gold Medal by the British Institution of Structural Engineers. (1)

Candela’s last projects in Mexico city were Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, built for the 1968 Summer Olympics, and several Metro Stations built in 1969.

The Enduring Influence of Felix Candela

Candela taught architecture in Mexico, influencing a generation of architects there. In 1971 Candela emigrated to the United States to teach architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago. He was on the faculty there from 1971 until he retired from teaching in 1978. The same year Candela became a naturalized United States citizen. (2)

Felix Candela, L’Oceanogràfic (1998), Valencia, Spain. Image source.

Felix Candela’s approach to using concrete and geometry to break with traditional vertical and horizontal forms influenced almost every architect in the latter part of the Twentieth Century. Candela’s influence can be clearly seen in fellow countryman Santiago Calatrava’s Llonja de Sant Jordi, Alicante, Spain (1995) and Bodegas Ysios Winery in Laguardia, Spain (2001).

Candela's last major project was in his homeland of Spain, L’Oceanogràfic in Valencia was completed in 1998 after the architect's death. (6) Felix Candela died on December 7, 1997 at the age of 87 in Durham, North Carolina. His drawings, papers, and “writings are held in the permanent collection of the Department of Drawings & Archives in the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in New York City” (1).

References

Wikipedia, (15 August 2024). “Felix Candela”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Candela.

Olsen, P., (n.d.). Felix Candela. 20th Century Architecture website. http://architecture-history.org/architects/architects/CANDELA/biography.html

Architectuul.com, (n.d.). “Felix Candela”. https://architectuul.com/architect/felix-candela

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Felix Candela". Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Feb. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Felix-Candela.

Architectuul.com, (n.d.).  “Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church”. https://architectuul.com/architecture/church-of-our-lady-of-the-miraculous-medal.

Wikiarquitectura.com, (n.d). “The Jacaranda Nightclub”. https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/building/the-jacaranda-nightclub/

Formliner Magazine (13 October, 2020). “The Man Who Made Waves”. https://www.formlinermag.com/en/the-man-who-made-waves/

[hermannlederle]

Hermann Lederle

Critically admired german artist Hermann Lederle is most prominent for his PIXEL and BLOTS painting and more recent ADAPTATION series. His works have shown in numerous exhibitions around the world, and his artistic production is particularly unique and recognizable. Although initially the impression is abstract, Lederle's works feature geometric elements that compose, as a whole, figurative elements, bringing to mind that of the abstract expressionists.

Los Angeles artist Hermann Lederle is known for his innovative BEAUTIFUL CHAOS abstract canvas scapes and unique BREAKAWAY layered PIXEL painting. Blurring the boundaries between paint-scape and landscape reality, and between the paint and its intended object, the work combines geometric abstraction and pure color concept to explore a new ethereal thematic. Through a PILLING of dotted lines and multitude of hyper-glow colors - as if the artist intends to assault the surface with micro-nuclear forces, Lederle constructs a next generation art-scape.

Upon graduating from Karl Friedrich School Mannheim for humanist and classic studies in Germany, Lederle re-directed his career path. His early apprenticeship training in photography inspired him to seek a formal continued education in the Fine Arts, namely filmmaking and painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco became his new residency for the next years until graduating with a BFA, followed by five years establishing himself as a painter in the thriving arts district of Tribeca in downtown New York City. It was there, Lederle began to formulate his own visual language to express his concepts and ideas through the lens, on canvas and on the film screen. Exemplifying the artist’s interest in the interaction between art and film and creating an additional link to 21st century web based digital art, Lederle's painting strives to wipe clean the slate of conventional notions of image construction.

Lederle's PIXEL series, first shown at Media Rare Gallery in Hollywood  suggests a kind of Cubism for the digital age. His work as a filmmaker cross-pollinates in subtle, oblique ways. The idea of pixel paintings originated when working with digital images. “It was a discovery. We may have been seeing this way unconsciously since human beings had eyes, but now that we know we can zoom in on something, and then zoom out and see the whole picture, it becomes an awareness we can use to appreciate the pixilated version. Kind of like a primal, pre-conscious experience that relates to the era of technology."

Lederle's FOOTPRINTS ON SNOW series entails a two stage process, where a graduated color is applied with a tractional brush allowing for the distinct qualities of its stroke to emerge. The second stage is executed with a painter's knife often with ostensibly contradictory linear shapes and lines, imbuing it with the properties of rival perceptions, irreversible  like footprints, taking place within the canvases.

More recently, in his so-called ADAPTATION series, those vertical bands consist of the vivid and expressionistic decades-old paintings that Lederle has painstakingly hand-cut and then collaged onto the canvas, leaving just enough space for original marks to show through as interstices of the canvas. Punctuated with a stop and go rhythm, the work reigns in the artist’s prior unbidden flourishes and lays bare the source of artistic inspiration, simultaneously suggesting themes of evolution as they relate to Lederle's own practice and reflections on art history.

His latest works in submission on the occasion of IN SPRING Exhibition 2024, recall the BLOTS-pointillism of the neoimpressionists. When purposely set against a SCHIENA SCURA - dark FOAM bubbles, the painting is calling out a messy, un-ordered free floating imagery of some scenery not quite in focus and frozen in a still frame, although its kinetic forces relentlessly pushing up against its limits. The experimental composition of primal shapes and lines striving for a creative expression of artificial, nearly molecular spaces in another dimension and direction. These images take time to absorb, asking you to invest and trust, not speed through in a frenzy. A new-dimensional structure slowly emerges transcending past traditional geometrics.

Hermann Lederle's work has been exhibited in the United States in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Canada, Germany, Italy, France and Hungary. A body of his work is in consignment at galleries, including DSV Kunstkontor Stuttgart, HPH Siebdruck Echterdingen Germany, Media Rare Gallery Los Angeles, Court Gallery New York, Lawson Galleries San Francisco, Friedman Guinness Gallery Heidelberg, and in private collections of Ringo Starr, Eric Stolz, Cal Zecca, Gabor Csupo.

Lederle lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Previous notable exhibitions took place at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery ANDRENOCHROMO FOR DINNER Milan Italy 2022, ART KARLSRUHE HPH Special Serigraph Exhibition Germany 2020, Silverman Studio Hollywood 2017, Vertiva Stuttgart Germany 2015, Arthea Galerie Mannheim Germany 2015, Frank Pictures Gallery Santa Monica 2012, Solaris Gallery Los Angeles 2005, FP Gallery Los Angeles 2005, Media Rare Gallery Hollywood 2001, Lawson Galleries San Francisco 1987 and Court Gallery New York City 1986.

[umassupdates]

they almost had the resonance cascade in lederle again

[asrarblog]

Leadership Tales I – Blog Post #430 by Asrar Qureshi

Leadership Tales I – Blog Post #430 by Asrar Qureshi

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #430. Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi onWordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Leadership is probably more fantasized than understood. Everyone seems…

[rocklandhistoryblog]

In light of the health emergency impacting all of us, we thought we’d dust off this interview with Pearl River author Mary Beth Keane. Keane discussed her book FEVER about Mary Mallon, better-known as Typhoid Mary. Mallon’s story brings up the pertinent question of how we strike a balance between personal civil liberties and public health.

We hope you enjoy this 30-minute podcast from 2013.

About the book: Mary Beth Keane, named one of the 5 Under 35 by the National Book Foundation, has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first person in America identified as a healthy carrier of Typhoid Fever.

On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life she'd aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Then one determined medical engineer noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman.

The Department of Health sent Mallon to North Brother Island, where she was kept in isolation from 1907 to 1910, then released under the condition that she never work as a cook again. Yet for Mary, proud of her former status and passionate about cooking, the alternatives were abhorrent. She defied the edict.

Bringing early-twentieth-century New York alive, the neighborhoods, the bars, the park carved out of upper Manhattan, the boat traffic, the mansions and sweatshops and emerging skyscrapers, Fever is an ambitious retelling of a forgotten life. In the imagination of Mary Beth Keane, Mary Mallon becomes a fiercely compelling, dramatic, vexing, sympathetic, uncompromising, and unforgettable heroine.

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PS: Elisabeth Moss is Developing 'Fever' Miniseries for BBC America... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/live-feed/elisabeth-moss-developing-fever-miniseries-1006696

[jeannepompadour]

"Les Anthuriums" by Janick Lederle, 1917

[unavidamoderna]

Vista de la entrada y pasarela cubierta durante la construcción, Lederle Laboratories, calz. de Tlalpan 3092, Ex-Hacienda Coapa, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México 1956 (destruido)

Arqs. Félix Candela y Alejandro Prieto Posada

View of the entrance and covered walkway during construction, Lederle Laboratories, calz. de Tlalpan 3092, Ex-Hacienda Coapa, Coyoacan,  Mexico City 1956 (destroyed)

[evolutionofchinatown]

Worked Cited

How It Started: 

“San Francisco Chinatown History: the Good..and the Grim.” Inside Guide to San Francisco Tourism, www.inside-guide-to-san-francisco-tourism.com/chinatown-history.html.

Chinese Exclusion Act:

“Chinatown | The Story of Chinatown.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/kqed/chinatown/resourceguide/story.html#mother.

Angel Island Immigration Station and Earthquake: 

Lederle, Cheryl. “Tragedy and Transformation: Looking at San Francisco's Chinatown with Primary Sources.” Tragedy and Transformation: Looking at San Francisco's Chinatown with Primary Sources | Teaching with the Library of Congress, 5 Mar. 2015, blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2015/03/tragedy-and-transformation-looking-at-san-franciscos-chinatown-with-primary-sources/. 

How People View Chinatown: 

Elaine Joe, "American Communities Built on Multiculturalism," Neighborhood    Bulletin, A Newsletter of the Chinatown Resource Center and Chinese                Community Housing Corporation vol.17, no.4 (Fall 1995). 

[michelagiulia]

Romy Schneider photographed by Franz Xaver Lederle. . . . . . . . .#movie#cinémafrançais#frenchmovie#romyschneider❤️❤❤❤❤#franzxaverlederle#blackandwhite#blackabdwhitephotography#noirerblancphotographie Romy profil...de l'autre côté....en plein jour... https://www.instagram.com/p/B168G1uC2G3/?igshid=e7x3szu3is93

[hermannlederle]

FACTORY STUDIO

FALSETTO

Hermann Louis Lederle

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Color-changing sparks

Sparks are a fascinating phenomenon well-known from campfires, flint stones and electric sparklers and other pyrotechnic articles. Looking at sparks more closely reveals the limited colors in which they appear. Dark red-orange sparks are known from charcoal, iron powder leads to yellow/golden sparks, and hot burning elemental metal powders such as aluminum and titanium can form bright white sparks.

The color of sparks is dominated by black body radiation. Consequently, the temperature of the spark controls its emitted wavelength. Differently colored sparks, e.g. green, blue, bright red/pink are not possible in the solid state. To achieve sparks in these colors, gas phase combustion is required. In the gas phase, element-specific emission takes place. In principle, the full spectrum of colors could be achieved, as known from the flame colors of various elements. Unfortunately, although few metals that burn in the vapor phase are known, the resulting sparks are very short, thick and the visual appearance is poor. This is readily explained by the fast evaporation of the metal.

Researchers from the Clausthal University of Technology (Germany) headed by Prof. Eike G. Hübner searched for long-burning and intensively colored sparks. After considering the theoretical background, first author Felix Lederle and Eike Hübner found one metal that should form long-burning green sparks: erbium. Using erbium powder of an appropriate grain size around 80 microns unexpectedly led to the first description of color-changing sparks burning in three phases and final branching of the sparks. The findings have recently been published as very important paper and cover feature in the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry.

Read more.

[evilbuildingsblog]

Lederle graduate research tower

[totallyhussein-blog]

Will Priti Patel’s Rwanda plan stop human trafficking?

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued an urgent order on Tuesday, preventing the removal of an Iraqi asylum seeker hours before his scheduled deportation from the UK to Rwanda.

The individual, who is reportedly a victim of torture, had claimed his life was in danger in Iraq and had left the country for Türkiye, from where he reached the UK after crossing the English Channel by boat.

On May 24th, British authorities rejected his asylum claim as “inadmissible” and served a “notice of intent” to relocate him to Rwanda. The Court noted the risk to the human rights of the Iraqi national in Rwanda, a country outside the jurisdiction of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Just last month, fighting erupted at the Grande Synthe camp in Dunkirk, after gangs quarreled over territory for launching their small boats into the English Channel. A witness told Le Parisien that they “heard gunshots,” which sounded like “bursts of Kalashnikovs.” Adding: “Everyone got down on the ground.”

The camp, the largest in France, is reportedly controlled by gangs, who organize territory and allocate migrants spaces on small boats. UK Border Force officials told The Times that migrants were regularly facing threats of violence, often at gun or knifepoint, if they questioned the seafaring quality of the small boats.

Richard Lederle, from the crime and financial investigations unit at the UK's Home Office, said: “It often isn’t an option of choosing to get into the boats. It will affect profit margins and business models as gangs are competing with each other.”