Carlos Mijares Bracho

Carlos G. Mijares Bracho (born April 26, 1930 in Mexico City ; † March 19, 2015 there ) was a Mexican architect and founder of the "grupo Menhir".

biography

Mijares studied architecture at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) from 1948 to 1952 and was professor of architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) from 1954 . He is considered a master of artisanal brick masonry. His constructions include religious, industrial, and residential architecture. The influence of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto is in part unmistakable. Later he worked as a university teacher at the national architecture school of the UNAM, where he shaped the architecture of the 20th century in a comparable way alongside Jaime Ortiz Monasterio .

Mijares is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA).

Buildings (selection)

• Mijares House, Fernández House and Díaz Barreiro House, Mexico City
• State Government Data Center Building, Morelia
• Various industrial buildings of the “Fertilizantes del Bajío”, Salamanca
• Plant of the Vehículos Automotores Mexicanos , Toluca
• “Perpetuo Socorro” parish church, Ciudad Hidalgo
• “San José” Church, Jungapeo
• “San José Obrero” Church, La Coyota
• Christ Church, Federal District
• Catedral de Sal , Zipaquirá , Colombia
• Espacio Lúdico, Bogotá , Colombia

Awards

• 2001: UNAM Prize for Architecture and Design

Web links

• Carlos Mijares Bracho. In: arch INFORM .
• Works by and about Carlos Mijares in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fallce el arquitecto mexicano Carlos Mijares Bracho
2. ↑ grupo Menhir ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), Exhibition Catalog Espacios de Creación , 2004.  
3. ^ Carlos González Lobo (architect): "un maestro del uso sabio del ladrillo"
4. ^ Instituto Nacionales de Bellas Artes ( CONACULTA ): Arquitectura-Contrastes - Creación y enseñanza. Dos arquitectos universitarios: Ortiz Monasterio y Mijares Bracho. ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.