Antonio Rivas Mercado
Antonio Rivas Mercado (born February 26, 1853 in Tepic , † January 3, 1927 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican architect and civil engineer.
Life
Rivas, son of Luis Rivas Góngora and Leonor Mercado , first completed school in Mexico City and then, at the age of eleven, at the request of his parents, moved to the English Stonyhurst College . He then completed his high school education in Bordeaux, then studied art and architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1878 and also explored Italy and Spain before returning to Mexico in 1879, where he taught architecture and civil engineering. In 1894 he married Matilde Castellanos Haff and had five children with her, including the later writer Antonieta Rivas Mercado , who was born in 1900 . He himself was director of the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (ENBA) from 1903 to 1912 . After completing the Ángel de la Independencia, which he designed in Mexico City, he went to Paris again until 1926, before he died back in Mexico a year later.
Designs and constructions
- Teatro Juarez in Guanajuato
- Convento de San Diego
- Wax Museum in Mexico City
- Customs clearance building of the railway in Tlatelolco
- Municipal Palace , Tlalpan
- Calle de Londres 6 , Mexico City
- Calle de Héroes 45 , Mexico City
- Houses for Manuel del Refugio González Flores , Serapio Rendón , Antonio Caso and his sister Juana Rivas de Torres in Juárez 18 as well as their tomb at Panteón Francés
- Project drafts for the Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro (one in English and one in French)
- Design of the "El Ángel de la Independencia" in Mexico City
- Commissioned by Porfirio Díaz
- Sculptures by Enrique Alciati
- Construction supervision: Gonzalo Garita and Manuel Gorozpe
- Completion: September 16, 1910
More work
- Restoration of the facade of the old city hall in Mexico City
- Decoration work in the rooms of the Palacio Nacional , especially in the Sala Panamericana
- Renovation of the main building of the Hacienda de Chapingo , Texcoco (since 1923 Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo )
- Conversion of the Hacienda de Santa María Tecajete , Hidalgo
- Building conversion of the Espejel-Ranch, Hidalgo
- Conversion of the Hacienda de San Antonio Ometusco , México
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rivas Mercado, Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican architect and civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tepic |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1927 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |