Pedro Ramirez Vazquez
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Pedro Ramirez Vazquez (born 1919 in Mexico City) is a late twentieth century Mexican architect known for having built some of Mexico's most significant buildings in the 1960s and 1970s. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from UNAM in 1943. He built a lot of the most recognizable buildings in Mexico, including the Aztec Stadium, the Museum for National Antropology, and the Tijuana Cultural Center. He was the architect in charge of coordinating the Mexico City Olympics in 1968 and the World Cup in 1970. He is known to be a modern architect with influences from the European modern movement and Latin American modern architects as well. Concrete is the material he uses most often.
