"Like Candela, Isler has concentrated his practice on thin s... Isler derives his forms not from analytical geometry (as were Candela's hypars) but directly from physical and funicular models - flexible membranes that assume the least energy, or minimal surface, for a specific boundary and force patterns. In the mid-1950s Isler invented two new form-making techniques, the first by using pneumatic models and the second by experimenting with hanging cloth models sprayed with water and put out to freeze in wintertime. Later, in 1965, he added a third technique that made shapes "by the flow method, by... the advancing velocity of a liquid inside a tube... At the wall, velocity is zero because of friction, whereas in the center there is maximum velocity... and forms a dome shape." While the frozen cloths conform to the funicular shape given by gravity, the other methods, pneumatic and flow, are hydraulic."
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, "Constellations," in Seven Structural Engineers: The Felix Candela Lectures (2008) ed., Guy Nordenson
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