Religious · Modernism
Open Chapel of Lomas de Cuernavaca (Palmira Chapel)
Félix Candela, with Guillermo Rosell and Manuel Larrosa · Cuernavaca, Mexico · 1959
Key featuresA single 4 cm hyperbolic-paraboloid saddle that opens 30 m wide at the front and rises to a 21 m point.
- Architect
- Félix Candela, with Guillermo Rosell and Manuel Larrosa
- Place
- Cuernavaca, Mexico
- Year
- 1959
- Typology
- Religious
- Movement
- Modernism
- Region
- Americas
