Rosario Candela

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 traveled in 1906 in New York, but returned back to study in Sicily in 1909 and returned back to the United States.

The Columbia University took on Rosario and 1915 he received his degree in architecture. Then Candela initially worked briefly as a draftsman for the architect Gaetan Ajello born in Palermo. After another short interlude in the office of Frederick Sterner Candela in 1920 founded his own company. His first major commission was a house at 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.

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

Works

• Rosario Candela: The Military Cipher of Commandant Bazeries - An Essay in Decrypting. Cardanus Press, New York 1938.
• Rosario Candela: isomorphism and Its Applications in cryptanalytics. Cardanus Press, New York 1946.