Carlos G. Mijares Bracho (April 26, 1930 – March 19, 2015) was a Mexican architect and founder of the "grupo Menhir".
(Spanish), Espacios de Creación, 2004. Mijares studied at the

Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura The School of Architecture at UNAM is one of the leading schools of architecture and design in Mexico. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate studies in architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism and industrial design. History The sch ...

of the

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

(UNAM) from 1948 to 1952. After 1954 he lectured in architecture at the

Universidad Iberoamericana The Ibero-American University ( es, Universidad Iberoamericana), also referred to by its acronym ''UIA'' but commonly known as ''Ibero'' or ''La Ibero'') is a private, Catholic, Mexican higher education institution, sponsored by the Mexican provi ...

(UIA). He was considered to have been a master of brick wall work.Carlos González Lobo: ''„un maestro del uso sabio del ladrillo“'' His works include religious, industrial and residential architecture. An influence of the Finnish architect

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is quite distinctive in several of his works. Later he taught at the UNAM. He was a member of the

Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte The Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA; ''National System of Art Creators'') is program developed by the former Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, and founded per presidential decree on September 3, 1993. Its goal is the advancem ...

(SNCA). Mijares Bracho died on March 19, 2015, aged 84.

Selected works

* „Mijares“ house, „Fernández“ house and „Díaz Barreiro“ house, Mexico City * Governmental computer center building,

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* Several ''Fertilizantes del Bajío'' buildings,

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area,

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* "Perpetuo Socorro" church, Ciudad HidalgoMijares Bracho Carlos
Sistema de Información Cultural. * "San José" church,

Jungapeo Jungapeo is a municipality in the eastern part of the Mexican state of Michoacán. The municipality has an area of 265.98 square kilometres (0.45% of the surface of the state) and is bordered to the north by the municipality of Tuxpan, to the east ...

* "San José Obrero" church, La Coyota * Christ Church, Distrito Federal *

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, Colombia * Espacio Lúdico,

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, Colombia

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Carlos Mijares
in the

Ibero-American Institute The Ibero-American Institute or IAI (german: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, es, Instituto Ibero-Americano Patrimonio Cultural Prusiano) is an interdisciplinary institution located in Berlin, Germany, for academic and cultural exchange between Ger ...

's catalogue

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mijares Bracho, Carlos Mexican architects National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Universidad Iberoamericana faculty National Autonomous University of Mexico faculty People from Mexico City 1930 births 2015 deaths

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