Ricardo Legorreta

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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 National Autonomous Universtiy of Mexico. His work is easily recognized for its brightly-colored, cubist approach. As such, Legorreta's architecture is often difficult to place into any particular style category.

[edit] Notable works

• Hotel Camino Real México, 1965, (Col. Azures, Mexico City, Mexico)
• Casa Montalbán, 1985 (Hollywood, California, United States)
• Museo de arte contemporáneo de Monterrey, (Monterrey, Mexico)
• Tustin Market Place, 1988 (Tustin, California, United States)
• Pershing Square, 1994 (Los Angeles, California, United States)
• Cathedral,1994 (Managua, Nicaragua)
• The Tech Museum of Innovation, 1998 (San Jose, California, United States)
• Max Palevsky Residential Commons, 2001 (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
• San Antonio Public Library, Texas
• Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (Torre Tlatelolco), (Mexico City, Mexico)
• UCSF Mission Bay Bakar Fitness and Recreation Center, 2005 (San Francisco, California, United States)
• Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar), 2007 (Education City, Doha, Qatar)

[edit] Books

• Mutlow, John (1997). Legorreta. Rizzoli. ISBN 0-8478-2023-8. 
• Legorreta, Ricardo (2004). Legorreta + Legorreta. Rizzoli. ISBN 0-8478-2598-1.