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List Of Mexican Architects
Following is a list of Mexican architects. A–M * Alberto Arai (1915–1959) * Angélica Araujo Lara (born 1964) * Luis Barragán (1902–1988) * Juan Carlos Baumgartner (born 1972) * Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) * Gerardo Broissin (born 1975) * Clara de Buen Richkarday (born 1954) * Fernanda Canales (born 1974) * Pedro Castellanos (c. 1902–1961) * Laura Itzel Castillo (born 1957) * Ignacio Díaz Morales (1905–1992) * Francisco Antonio de Guerrero y Torres (c. 1727–c. 1792) * Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta (born 1961) * Edgar Gonzalez (architect) (born 1972) * Fernando González Gortázar (1942–2022) * Agustín Hernández Navarro (1924–2022) * Alberto Kalach (born 1960) * Ricardo Legorreta (1931–2011) * Ruth Rivera Marin (1927–1969) * Guillermo Moreno (born 1955) * Javier Senosiain (born 1948) * Agustín Landa Verdugo (c. 1923–2009) N–Z * Enrique Norten (born c. 1954) * Juan O'Gorman (1905–1982) * Augusto Pérez Palacios (1909–2002) * Beatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Arai
Alberto T. Arai (March 29, 1915 – May 25, 1959) was a Mexican architect, theorist and writer, of Japanese descent. Born in Mexico City, the fourth son of a Japanese ambassador in Mexico, Kinta Arai, Alberto T. Arai studied also philosophy, espousing neo-Kantianism and becoming politically a socialist artist. He became a supporter of Functionalism, with its emphasis on the social applications of architecture, and was also a founder, with Enrique Yañez, of the Unión de Arquitectos Socialistas (1938), helping to draw up a socialist theory of architecture. He was one of the most active participants and attempted to put his socialist theory into practice on two unexecuted projects in the same year: the building for the Confederation of Mexican Workers and the Ciudad Obrera de México, both with Enrique Guerrero and Raúl Cacho (1937), and his social worries on the unexecuted General Hospital project (to be built in the city of Leon, Gto). He was one of the commissioners to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agustín Hernández Navarro
Agustín Hernández Navarro (February 29, 1924 – November 10, 2022) was a Mexican sculptor, poet, and architect recognized for his monumental futuristic buildings. His innovative design style garnered a multitude of awards and accolades in Mexico and internationally. Biography Agustín Hernández Navarro was born in Mexico City on February 29, 1924. His brother is architect Lamberto Hernández, and his sister is choreographer Amalia Hernández Amalia Hernández Navarro (September 19, 1917 – November 4, 2000) was a Mexican ballet choreographer and founder of the world-renowned Ballet Folklórico de México. Hernández was born to the military officer and politician Lamberto Hernández .... He also has two other sisters. He is the son of politician Lamberto Hernández and mother Amalia Navarro. At a young age, his mother exposed him to construction and building sites as a way of motivating him to pursuing a career in architecture. Inspired by the tradesmen who spoke about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Rivera Marín
Ruth Rivera Marín (18 June 1927 – 15 December 1969) was a Mexican architect. Her professional experience centered on teaching, institutional management, theory and practice related to architecture. She was the first woman student of the College of Engineering and Architecture at the National Polytechnic Institute. Biography Ruth María Rivera Marín was born in Mexico City on 18 June 1927 to parents Diego Rivera, a prominent Mexican muralist, and mother Guadalupe Marín Preciado, a well-known actress and writer. Her elder sister was Guadalupe Rivera Marín. She completed her primary education at the Escuela Alberto Correa and finished her secondary education at Secondary School N° 8. Rivera was the first woman to study architecture at the College of Engineering and Architecture of the National Polytechnic Institute and graduated in 1950 with the degree title of engineer-architect of the College of Engineering and Architecture (ESIA). Simultaneously with her studies of arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Porset
Clara Porset (May 25, 1895 – May 17, 1981) was a Cuban-born furniture and interior designer. From 1935 until her death, she lived and worked mainly in Mexico, where she is considered a pioneer in furniture design. She was educated in the United States and Cuba, and later studied in Europe in Germany and Paris. She also studied at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, in 1934. Education Born to a wealthy Cuban family in 1895, Porset later had the opportunity to travel widely, accumulating a wide range of artistic and political influences. She studied at the Manhattanville Academy, New York (1911–14) and attended technical courses in architecture and design in Cuba. In 1925, Porset returned to New York City and continued her studies in art, architecture, and design at Columbia University’s School of Fine Arts as well as the New York School of Interior Design (then named the New York School of Interior Decoration). Porset traveled to Europe in the late 1920s, where she met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenio Peschard
Eugenio Peschard Delgado was a Mexican architect. Prior to joining the faculty of the National University in 1940, Peschard was an architect in the Ministry of Communications and Public Works and a member of the Council of Architecture of the Federal District. He translated a number of architectural books, including works by Hardy Cross, S. Timoshenko, and Vanden Broek. Early life Born in Mexico sometime between 1877 and 1937, Peschard was the son of José Guadalupe Peschard and Concepción Delgado de Peschard. One of six children, Peschard's brothers were José Angel Peschard Delgado, a doctor and academic; Armando Peschard Delgado, a Mexico City doctor; and Guillermo Peschard, an orthodontic dentist and academic at the Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango. Tour of the United States Peschard traveled to the United States on a trip that was featured in the U.S. Department of State's official Bulletin in 1948, during a period of increased outreach by the U.S. government to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatriz Peschard
Beatriz Peschard Mijares is a Mexican architect. She founded the architecture firm Bernardi Peschard Arquitectura in 2000, focusing mostly on residential and corporate projects. Her designs, such as the AA315 House in Mexico City, use motifs from architects such as Mies van der Rohe. Many of Peschard’s projects, including the AA315 House, incorporate the surrounding landscape with a modernist architectural design. Peschard serves on the editorial board of Architectural Digest México. Early life and education Peschard was born in Mexico City but traveled frequently as a child. She has stated her path to architecture began when she was eight years old, when she designed a pool to be built in the empty lot next to her family's home. Peschard studied architecture in Mexico City at Universidad Anáhuac México and was taught by many of Mexico’s most important 20th century architects, including Mario Pani, José Luis Calderón Cabrera, Héctor Bracho, and Sara Topelson. Personal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusto Pérez Palacios
Augusto Pérez Palacios (1909 – August 9, 2002) was a Mexican architect and teacher. He designed various public buildings, most notably the Estadio Olímpico Universitario of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), together with Raúl Salinas Moro and Jorge Bravo Jiménez. Biography In 1933, Pérez Palacios graduated from the School of Architecture, UNAM in Mexico City. His architectural work often featured collaboration between the building structure and the fine arts, such as being covered with mosaics or reliefs. Notable work by Pérez Palacios included supervising the Hotel del Prado (1939; destroyed 1985) in Mexico City; the design of the Fibracel Factory (1948), in Ciudad Valles; and the design of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation complex (1953; with Raúl Cacho; partly destroyed 1985), in Mexico City. He was a professor of architecture in the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, from 1934 to 1938; and a professor at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan O'Gorman
Juan O'Gorman (July 6, 1905 – January 17, 1982) was a Mexican painter and architect. Early life and family Juan O'Gorman was born on 6 July 1905 in Coyoacán, then a village to the south of Mexico City and now a borough of the Federal District, to an Irish immigrant father, Cecil and Encarnación O'Gorman (née O'Gorman). His parents were distant cousins. He had three younger siblings, Edmundo, Margarita and Tomás. Despite his father's influence, O'Gorman chose to focus on architecture early in his career. In 1927, he graduated from Academy of San Carlos, the Art and Architecture school at the National Autonomous University. His first marriage was to Nina Wright, Russian-American architect. He later married Helen Fowler, an American artist with whom he had an adopted daughter. Career San Ángel houses In 1929, O'Gorman purchased a plot containing two tennis courts in Mexico City's San Ángel colonia. On the plot, O'Gorman constructed a small house and studio intend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Norten
Enrique Norten Rosenfeld (born c. 1954), Hon. FAIA, is a Mexican architect and principal of the design firm ''TEN Arquitectos'' (Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos). Norten was born in Mexico City in 1954 where he graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana with a degree in architecture in 1978. He obtained a Master of Architecture from Cornell University in 1980. In 1986, he founded TEN Arquitectos in Mexico City, initiating a lifelong commitment to architecture and design. In February 2008, Enrique Norten was presented with the "Excellence in Architecture and Design Award” by PODER - Boston Consulting Group Business Awards, and in 2007 obtained the “Legacy Award” from the Smithsonian Institution for his contributions to the US arts and culture. In 2005 he received the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts by the World Cultural Council and was the first Mies van der Rohe Award recipient for Latin American Architecture in 1998. Enrique Norten has lectured all over the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agustín Landa Verdugo
Agustín Landa Verdugo (1923 – 3 October 2009) was a Mexican architect and urban planner, born in Mexico City. He studied architecture in the National University of Mexico (now UNAM). In 1945 he established a firm with his brother Enrique, with whom he designed hundreds of public and private buildings during four decades of partnership. The firm's work distinguished itself by its modern language and the efficiency and economy of the solutions it proposed. The work of Landa Verdugo's firm was influential in many areas of architecture in Mexico, including the design of hospitals and social housing, where its pioneering designs became standards for younger architects. As an urban planner, Agustin Landa Verdugo was the author of the master plan of a number of new cities and neighborhoods in Mexico, most notably the city of Cancún, which was built in the early 1970s in an uninhabited island in the state of Quintana Roo. Hospitals Some of the earliest major projects by Landa Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Senosiain
Javier Senosiain is a Mexican architect known to be one of the first architects to design organic architecture in Mexico. He is a graduate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and has served as an architecture professor at the university. Throughout his career he has worked with different areas of architecture, but he specialized in Organic Architecture. He is the founder of the Organic Architecture firm in Mexico City, which has been responsible for designing offices, houses, factories, and co-ops. He is also the author of two books called Bioarquitectura and Arquitectura Organica. Early life Javier Senosiain was born in Mexico on 5 May 1948. His early life consisted mostly of a middle-class family. At the time he was a budding artist and was very involved in his town's small art community. Career Javier Senosiain is the most clear exponent of Organic Architecture in Mexico. He has a philosophy that seeks harmony between our natural habitat and the world. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
