Augusto H. Álvarez

Augusto Harold Álvarez García
Born(1914-12-24)December 24, 1914
Mérida, Yucatán
DiedNovember 29, 1995(1995-11-29) (aged 80)
Mexico City
NationalityMexican
OccupationArchitect

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

Biography

Torre Latinoamericana

Álvarez was student of José Villagrán García. 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 Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.[1]

He collaborated with notable Mexican Modernist architects including Juan Sordo Madaleno, Enrique Carral Icaza, and Salvador Ortega Flores.

Selected works

He participated in projects for:

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Curl, James Stevens (1999). Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860678-9.
  • 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.