Agustín Landa Verdugo

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Agustín Landa Verdugo (* 1923 in Mexico City ; † October 3, 2009 there ) is a Mexican architect and urban planner .

biography

Landa Verdugo studied architecture at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura (ENA) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México under Mario Pani Darqui and José Villagrán García . From 1948 to 1968 he taught as a master at the ENA. From 1963 to 1964 he was director of the housing fund ( Fondo de Vivienda -FOVI) and was involved in the establishment of the Fondo de Promoción e Infraestructura Turística (INFRATUR), the predecessor of the current National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism, called Fondo Nacional de Fomento al Turismo (FONATURE). In 1990 he received the silver medal at the 1st Mexican Architecture Biennale for the design of a monastery and prayer house in Huixquilucan .

Construction planning

Parroquia Francesa in the Colonia Chapultepec-Morales

Together with his brother Enrique Landa Verdugo , he founded an architecture office in 1945. Together they designed hundreds of public and private buildings for over 40 years. Its modern architecture became the model for many young architects. The first work in the early 1950s included several hospitals for the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), including in Puebla and Delicias . As a result, the office was commissioned by the Mexican government to design another 55 health care buildings. The Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE) needed a large number of clinic buildings for its members in the late 1950s. First of all, the planning for the 600-bed hospital on November 20, as well as six somewhat smaller hospitals and 48 other hospitals, was based on two standard drafts. The November 20th hospital was rated by architecture critic Miquel Adriá as one of the 25 most important buildings in Mexican architecture of the 20th century. After working for the ISSSTE, Landa Verdugo designed several residential buildings. The first project arose in the early 1960s in what is now Loma Hermosa, Mexico City, with 1,648 residential and office units, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank . It comprised 76 four-storey apartment blocks with associated infrastructure, surrounded by a traffic road. There are no traffic routes for motor vehicles within the facility. Another residential complex with a similar structure was built in today's Lomas de Sotelo with 2,090 apartments, followed by further projects in Mexico City. In the 1970s, with funding from the Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores (INVONAVIT), he designed the facilities in Ejército Nacional and part of Pedregal de Carrasco. His other work includes the design and planning of factories and bank buildings.

Urban planning

Development plan for Cancun

Agustín Landa designed development plans for several Mexican cities and neighborhoods. His first urban planning project was the city of Sahagún ( Hidalgo ). Particularly noteworthy is the planning for the city of Cancún , which arose in the 1970s on an almost uninhabited island in Quintana Roo . His first hotel, the Cancun Caribe , which is now part of the Hyatt chain, was built here. Ixtapa - Zihuatanejo , Loreto and Los Cabos were also planned by him .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Proof of death dates
  2. ↑ Mexico. in Bauwelt 35/1992, Bertelsmann, Berlin, 1992.
  3. ↑ Chacón, M .: Centro Hospitalario '20 de Noviembre ', (Spanish), in Revista Arquitectura México , No. 75, September 1961.
  4. ↑ Aguilera, A. Ed .: Arquitecturas finiseculares en México , (Spanish) Mexico City, Universidad Iberoamericana , 2000, pp. 102-103.
  5. ↑ Barragán, JI: 100 años de vivienda en México, Historia de la vivienda en una óptica económica y social (Spanish), Monterrey: URBIS International SA de CV, 1994, pp. 82-83.
  6. ↑ INFONAVIT, 15 años. (Spanish), Mexico City, INFONAVIT, 1988, pp. 90-93.
  7. ↑ translated to Agustín Landa Verdugo in the English language Wikipedia in the version of Oct. 21, 2008, 5:28 pm , based on the sources given there.
  8. ^ Cancún, un desarrollo en la costa turquesa (Spanish), Mexico City, FONATUR. Pp. 68-73.
personal data
SURNAME Landa Verdugo, Agustín
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 2009
Place of death Mexico city