Enrique de la Mora

Infobox Architect


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name = Enrique de la Mora
nationality = Mexican
birth_date = birth date|1907|06|16
birth_place = Guadalajara, Jalisco
death_date = death date and age|1978|05|09|1907|06|16
death_place = Mexico City, Mexico
alma_matter = National Autonomous University of Mexico
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significant_buildings= "La Purísima" (Monterrey, Mexico)
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awards = National Prize for Architecture (Mexico, 1947)

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. [cite web|url=http://www.alvaraalto.fi/conferences/universal/finalpapers/raquel.franklin.rtf|title=Transformations of Modernity: The Mexican Case|last=Franklin|first=Raquel|accessdate=2008-07-01] He is generally regarded, along the Spaniard Félix Candela, as one of the most famous structural expressionists in Mexico. [cite web|url=http://es.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761586708_2/Arquitectura_mexicana_contempor%C3%A1nea.html#p12|title=Arquitectura mexicana contemporánea|publisher=Microsoft Encarta Online|language=Spanish|accessdate=2008-07-01]

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.cite web |auhtor = Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | url=http://www.unam.mx/patrimonio/autores.html |title=Los autores del Campus central Ciudad Universitaria |language=Spanish |accessdate=2008-06-30]

elected works

* "La Purísima" (Monterrey, 1939)
* Master plan of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Monterrey, 1945)
* Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, (Mexico City, 1947)
* Rectorate building of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Monterrey, 1952)
* Mexican Stock Exchange (Mexico City, 1955)
* "Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe" (Madrid, 1965)

References

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NAME = Mora, Enrique de la
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Mora y Palomar, Enrique de la (Spanish)
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Mexican architect distinguished with the National Prize for Architecture in 1947
DATE OF BIRTH = 1907-06-16
PLACE OF BIRTH = Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
DATE OF DEATH = 1978-05-09
PLACE OF DEATH = Mexico City, Mexico