Rogelio Salmona
Rogelio Salmona (* 1927 in Paris ; † October 3, 2007 ) was a Colombian architect .
Life
Rogelio Salmona was born in Paris in 1927 to a Spanish father and a French mother; the family moved to Colombia early. He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia .
In the early 1950s, Salmona worked with Le Corbusier in Paris on his project for the new capital in Chandigarh in the Indian state of Punjab . In the mid-1950s he opened his own office in Bogotá . Well-known works by Salmona are a house for Gabriel García Márquez in Cartagena , the Colombian National Archives Archivo General and the Biblioteca Pública Virgilio Barco .
In 2003, Salmona was the first Latin American architect to receive the Alvar Aalto Medal , among other awards .
Awards and honors
- Colombian National Architecture Prize (1986, 1988 and 1990)
- Prince Claus Prize (1998)
- Profesional Trajectory in Architecture Prize II, Iberoamerican Bienal of Architecture and Civil Engineering (2000)
- Alvar Aalto Medal (2003)
- Manuel Tolsá Medal, Autonomous University of México (2004)
literature
- Ricardo L. Castro: Rogelio Salmona , Villegas Editores 2003, ISBN 958-9393-57-8
- Lugares dentro de Lugares, El rito de la Memoria en el Centro Cultural Jorge Eliecer Gaitán. Salazar, Mauricio. (2011), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. ISBN 978-958-719-689-4
swell
- ↑ a b Website of the Fundacion Rogelio Salmona (span.)
- ^ Exhibition Hamburg Architecture Summer 2019
- ↑ "Rogelio Salmona" ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2008 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. , Prince Claus Awards 1998
- ^ "Rogelio Salmona received the Alvar Aalto Award" , Architectural Review September 2003
Web links
- Fundacionrogeliosalmona.org . Catalogo de la obra de Rogelio Salmona.
- Rogelio Salmona. In: arch INFORM .
- Lugares dentro de lugares. La Memoria en la composición arquitectónica CCJG: Rogelio Salmona.
- Biography of Rogelio Salmona (Spanish)
- New York Times: "Rogelio Salmona, Colombian Architect Who Transformed Cities, Is Dead at 78" , Simon Romero, October 6, 2007 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salmona, Rogelio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colombian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 2007 |