Rosario Candela

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Rosario Candela (born March 7, 1890 in Montelepre , Sicily, † October 3, 1953 in Mount Vernon (New York) ) was an Italian-American architect .

His parents were Josephine Pizzurro and Michele Candela, a plasterer .

Rosario Candela entered New York in 1906, but then went back to Sicily to study and returned to the USA in 1909.

The Columbia University took on Rosario and 1915, he graduated in architecture. Candela then worked briefly as a draftsman for the Palermo- born architect Gaetan Ajello . After another brief interlude in Frederick Sterner's office , Candela founded his own company in 1920. His first major contract was for an apartment building on the corner of West 92nd Street and Broadway . Over the next five years, Candela designed a number of residential buildings on the Upper West Side .

Candela created his most important works in the second half of the 1920s when he designed numerous residential buildings in the Upper East Side . In the year of the stock market crash in 1929, only 12 of 27 designs were completed, including buildings 740 , 770 and 778 Park Avenue and 834 and 1040 Fifth Avenue .

Works

  • Rosario Candela: The Military Cipher of Commandant Bazeries - An Essay in Decrypting . Cardanus Press, New York 1938, OCLC 814084 .
  • Rosario Candela: Isomorphism and Its Applications in Cryptanalytics . Cardanus Press, New York 1946, OCLC 708605 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Immigration Service. List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the US Immigration Officer at Port of Arrival (Ship Manifest), Immigration Service Form 500 BSS Napolitan Prince sailing from Palermo on October 22 and November 12, 1906 and arriving in Port of New York on November 08 and November 27, 1906? That would mean the trip back from NYC took only 4 days. American Family Immigration History Center (Ellis Island Archives) posted this manifest online
  2. ↑ Or was there a namesake?
  3. ↑ a b Christopher Gray: Apartments by Candela: Grandest of the Grand . In: The New York Times . September 11, 1988. Retrieved February 21, 2007.
  4. ^ A b Andrew Alpern: The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter . Acanthus Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-926494-20-1 , OCLC 46385874 . Excerpted from book review by Carter B. Horsley
  5. ↑ a b Christopher Gray: A Renowned Architect's Less Renowned Designs . In: The New York Times . February 5, 2006. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Candela, Rosario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-American architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Montelepre , Sicily
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1953
Place of death Mount Vernon (New York)