"Thin shells — Three-dimensional spatial structures made up of one or more curved slabs or folded plates whose thickne…"

"[T]he early work of Lambot... was one of the first applications of , but [was] also... a form of . His patent on wire…"

"has designed some of the most striking thin shells in reinforced concrete of the second half of the twentieth century…"

"Candela did not invent the concrete shell; nor is he the first to make use of the hyperbolic paraboloid... Other peop…"

"Candela] is not just an engineer, or an architect, or a contractor and constructor, but all three... [W]hen he thinks…"

"[M]ost of Candela's structures are almost complete in themselves... the forms and proportions bear witness to his art…"

"The method of geometric modeling of multi-shell roofs depends mostly on the surface's properties forming the shell; t…"

"... all through school had a reputation of working alone and of doing his work in an unusual way. ...in 1950 he gradu…"

"Torroja was a specialist in stress analysis... and he wrote a... book on the mathematical theory of elasticity. This.…"

"With the development of advanced composites, their orthotropic and anisotropic behavior must be considered. However, …"