Augusto H. Álvarez Explained

Augusto Harold Álvarez García
Nationality:	Mexican
Birth Date:	24 December 1914
Birth Place:	Mérida, Yucatán
Death Place:	Mexico City

Augusto Harold Álvarez García (b. Mérida, Yucatán, December 24, 1914 – d. Mexico City, November 29, 1995) was a Mexican Modernist architect.

Biography

Álvarez was student of José Villagrán García. He taught at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where the computer laboratory is named after him. He was founder of the school of architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana, and was its first director.

His design works were influenced by the International style architecture of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.^[1]

He collaborated with notable Mexican Modernist architects including Juan Sordo Madaleno, Enrique Carral Icaza, and Salvador Ortega Flores.

Selected works

He participated in projects for:

• Mexico City International Airport
• Universidad Iberoamericana
• Business and administration school of the UNAM
• Bank of Valle de México
• IBM in Mexico City^[1]
• An Archbishop's residence
• Escuela Bancaria y Comercial
• Torre Latinoamericana
• Torre Altus.

See also

• Modernist architecture in Mexico

References

• Graciela de Garay: Augusto H. Álvarez. Historia Oral de la Ciudad de México: Testimonios de sus arquitectos (1940–1990), Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Mexico, 1994,
• Lourdes Cruz González Franco: [''Augusto H. Álvarez. Vida y Obra''], UNAM faculty of architecture, Mexico, 2004.

External links

• • Bilder der Werke von Augusto H. Álvarez at praella.com
• Augusto H. Álvarez at Arquitectura Moderna

Notes and References

1. Book: Curl . James Stevens . Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture . 1999 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-860678-9. 2.