Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis is a Mexican architect. He was born in Mexico City on May 7, 1931. He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He was awarded the prestigeous UIA Gold Medal in 1999.
Legorreta is a disciple of Luis Barragan and carried Barragan's ideas to a wider realm. Barragan, in the 1940s and 1950's amalgamated tradition and the modern movement in architecture yet his work is mostly limited to domestic arc...
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Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis is a Mexican architect. He was born in Mexico City on May 7, 1931. He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He was awarded the prestigeous UIA Gold Medal in 1999.
Legorreta is a disciple of Luis Barragan and carried Barragan's ideas to a wider realm. Barragan, in the 1940s and 1950's amalgamated tradition and the modern movement in architecture yet his work is mostly limited to domestic architecture. Legorreta uses elements of Barragan's architecture in his work including bright colors, play of light and shadow, and solid Platonic geometric shapes. One of the important contributions of Legorreta has been the use of these elements in other building types such as hotels, factories as well as in commercial and educational buildings. His most famous works are the Camino Real Hotel, the IBM Factory in Guadalajara and the Cathedral of Managua. He now also has a strong presence outside of Mexico, particularly in the southwest of the...
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