Enrique de la Mora Architect

Enrique de la Mora y Palomar (16 June 1907 – 9 May 1978) was a Mexican architect who designed prominent university buildings and Roman Catholic churches in which he experimented with hyperbolic-paraboloid roofs. He is generally regarded, along with the Spaniard Félix Candela, as one of the most famous structural expressionists in Mexico.De la Mora was distinguished with the National Prize for Architecture in 1947 and some of his works, particularly his Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico's Ciudad Universitaria, is now part of a UNESCO's World Heritage Site since 2007.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)Mora y Palomar Enrique de la (Spanish)
Birth dateJune 16, 1907
Birth place
Guadalajara , Mexico
Nationality
Mexico
Date of deathMay 09, 1978
Place of death
Mexico City , Mexico

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Significant building
Monterrey
Mexico

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