He was a fairly famous Mexican modernist, who designed Diego Riveria and Frida Kahlo's joint residence/studio in Mexico City. Very cool (utlizing a hedge-row of catci for a security fence). It was on the itierary of a SCIArc studio trip to Mexico City in the late 90's.
he was neither vaguely known nor unheard of at UT...the moment i saw the movie "frida" i could tell my wife exactly who designed that house.
the professor who taught the history course where we explored late 19th/20th c. architecture (it wasn't the 21st century yet back in 1999) was adamant about turning those footnotes about non-western-european modernists into something more. we learned not only about o'gorman and of course barragan but also gonzales leon, zabludovsky, candela (well, he was spanish but) and not only mexicans...eladio dieste (personal hero), the cuban national art schools of the early 1960s, and mendes da rocha pre-pritzker
not all architecture history courses are just recaps of theory fads since archigram
Yep, I love Eladio's work and philosophies. I worry about its preservation....when I was in Uruguay in the 90's some of it looked a little rough around the edges.
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Juan O'Gorman who?
Did you ever come accross the architect Juan O'Gorman in any of your architectural history classes? If so, where and when (school and decade)?
Just trying to get an idea about whether he's vaguely known, or completely unheard of....or both, depending on where and when you went to school.
He was a fairly famous Mexican modernist, who designed Diego Riveria and Frida Kahlo's joint residence/studio in Mexico City. Very cool (utlizing a hedge-row of catci for a security fence). It was on the itierary of a SCIArc studio trip to Mexico City in the late 90's.
as a footnote in our "history of modern architecture" - not in lectures but in the reading material. (HUT, Finland)
of course. the murals of unam
sure, in grad school at WashU in the early 90s
he was neither vaguely known nor unheard of at UT...the moment i saw the movie "frida" i could tell my wife exactly who designed that house.
the professor who taught the history course where we explored late 19th/20th c. architecture (it wasn't the 21st century yet back in 1999) was adamant about turning those footnotes about non-western-european modernists into something more. we learned not only about o'gorman and of course barragan but also gonzales leon, zabludovsky, candela (well, he was spanish but) and not only mexicans...eladio dieste (personal hero), the cuban national art schools of the early 1960s, and mendes da rocha pre-pritzker
not all architecture history courses are just recaps of theory fads since archigram
eladio dieste's brick hyperboloids and paraboloids are amazing.. a kind of austere, uruguayan GaudÃ
Yep, I love Eladio's work and philosophies. I worry about its preservation....when I was in Uruguay in the 90's some of it looked a little rough around the edges.
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