Carlos Obregón Santacilia

Carlos Obregón Santacilia (born November 5, 1896 in Mexico City , † September 24, 1961 ) was a Mexican architect and is considered one of the pioneers of modern Mexican architecture.

biography

Obregón was the seventh of ten children of the doctor Lauro Obregón and his wife María Santacilia y Juárez , the eldest granddaughter of the President Benito Juárez . From 1916 he studied architecture at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes . In 1924 he graduated with honors from Carlos Lazo , Manuel Ortiz Monasterio , Manuel Ituarte , Eduardo Macedo y Arbeu and Martínez del Cerro on the subject of "Education Center" .

As an architect, he planned around 150 buildings at home and abroad until his retirement in 1960, including some famous buildings in Mexico City, including the Monument of the Revolution . Later well-known architects worked under Obregón, such as José Villagrán García , Enrique del Moral and Juan O'Gorman . He was three times president of the Mexican Association of Architects and has also received awards from the Brazilian , Chilean and Cuban governments.

Works (selection)

• Mexican pavilion at the 1922 World's Fair, Rio de Janeiro
• Secretaría de Salubridad y Asistencia (1925)
• Monumento a la Revolución , Mexico City (1938)
• Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (1940)
• Guardiola Building (1941)

Web links

• Carlos Obregón Santacilia. In: arch INFORM .
• Images of the works of Carlos Obregón Santacilia at praella.com
• Literature by and about Carlos Obregón Santacilia in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/sn/sn-146(034).htm (Spanish)

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1. ↑ Carlos Obregón Santacilia (Spanish), Arqhys.com.
2. ↑ Karla Garcia: Nitica del Día: Carlos Obregón Santacilia, Pionero de la Arquitectura Mexicana, Memoria de un Artista que hizo Frente al Academicismo y dio sentido al Espacio urbano , February 21, 2002.
3. ↑ Monumento a la Revolución. ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), accessed September 15, 2007.