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Augusto Harold Álvarez García (b. Mérida, Yucatán, December 24, 1914 – d. Mexico City, November 29, 1995) was a Mexican Modernist architect.


Biography

Álvarez was student of
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. He taught at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where the computer laboratory is named after him. He was founder of the school of architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana, and was its first director. His design works were influenced by the International style architecture of
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and
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. He collaborated with notable Mexican Modernist architects including
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, and Salvador Ortega Flores.


Selected works

He participated in projects for: *
Mexico City International Airport Mexico City International Airport ( es, link=yes, Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México, AICM); officially ''Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez'' (Benito Juárez International Airport) is the main international airport serving ...
*Universidad Iberoamericana *Business and administration school of the UNAM *Bank of
Valle de México The Valley of Mexico ( es, Valle de México) is a highlands plateau in central Mexico roughly coterminous with present-day Mexico City and the eastern half of the State of Mexico. Surrounded by mountains and volcanoes, the Valley of Mexico wa ...
* IBM in Mexico City *An Archbishop's residence * Escuela Bancaria y Comercial * Torre Latinoamericana * Torre Altus.


See also

*
Modernist architecture in Mexico Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...


References

* Graciela de Garay: ''Augusto H. Álvarez. Historia Oral de la Ciudad de México: Testimonios de sus arquitectos (1940–1990)'', Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Mexico, 1994, * Lourdes Cruz González Franco: ''Augusto H. Álvarez. Vida y Obra'' UNAM faculty of architecture, Mexico, 2004.


External links

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Bilder der Werke von ''Augusto H. Álvarez''
at ''praella.com''

at ''Arquitectura Moderna'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Alvarez Garcia, Augusto Harold Modernist architects from Mexico International style architects 1914 births 1995 deaths Artists from Yucatán (state) Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Academic staff of Universidad Iberoamericana People from Mérida, Yucatán 20th-century Mexican architects