Carlos Mijares Bracho

Carlos G. Mijares Bracho (b. Mexico City, April 26, 1930) is a Mexican architect and founder of the „grupo Menhir“.^[2]

Biography

Mijares studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) from 1948 to 1952. After 1954 he lectured in architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA). He is considered as master of brick wall work.^[3] His works include religious, industrial and residential architecture. An influence of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto is quite distinctive in several of his works. Later he taught at the UNAM.^[4] He is member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA).

Selected works

• „Mijares“ house, „Fernández“ house and „Díaz Barreiro“ house, Mexico City
• Governmental computer center building, Morelia
• Several Fertilizantes del Bajío buildings, Salamanca
• Vehículos Automotores Mexicanos area, Toluca
• "Perpetuo Socorro" church, Ciudad Hidalgo^[5]
• "San José" church, Jungapeo
• "San José Obrero" church, La Coyota
• Christ Church, Distrito Federal
• Catedral de Sal, Zipaquirá, Colombia
• Espacio Lúdico, Bogotá, Colombia
• Reconstruction of the university campus of the Universidad Iberoamericana, together with J. Francisco Serrano Cacho

Further reading

• SantaMaria, R. and S. Palleroni, "La Obra de Carlos Mijares: Tiempo y otra Construcciones" (Escala, Bogota, Seville, 1989, 1991, 2000). 202 pp

External links

• Carlos Mijares Bracho at the archINFORM database
• Carlos Mijares in the Ibero-American Institute's catalogue

References