Agustín Landa Verdugo

Agustín Landa Verdugo (* 1923 in Mexico City; † October 3, 2009 ibid ) is a Mexican architect and urban planner.

Biography

Landa Verdugo studied architecture at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura (ENA ) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México under Mario Pani Darqui and José García Villagrán. From 1948 to 1968 he taught as a master at the ENA. He was from 1963 to 1964 director of the Housing Fund ( Fondo de Vivienda - FOVI ) and on the foundation of the Fondo de Série e Infraestructura Turística ( INFRATUR ) involved, the predecessor of the current National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism, called Fondo Nacional de Fomento al Turismo ( FONATUR ). For the design of a monastery and house of worship in Huixquilucan he received in 1990 at the First Mexican Architecture Biennial the silver medal.

Planing

Together with his brother Enrique Landa Verdugo 1945, he founded an architectural firm. Together they designed over 40 years, hundreds of public and private buildings. Its modern architecture was the model for many young architects. Among the first works included at the beginning of the 1950s, several hospitals for the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social ( IMSS ), among others, in Puebla and Delicias. Then the office was commissioned by the Mexican government with the design further 55 buildings of health care. The Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado ( ISSSTE ) needed towards the end of the 1950s needed for its members a variety of hospital buildings. First, the planning for the 600 - bed hospital Hospital 20th November and six somewhat smaller homes and 48 other hospitals was based on two standard designs. The Hospital of November 20 classified the architectural critic Miquel Adrià one as one of the 25 most significant buildings of Mexican architecture of the 20th century. After his work for the ISSSTE Landa Verdugo designed several houses. The first project emerged in the early 1960s in what is now Loma Hermosa, Mexico City, with 1,648 residential and office units, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. It included 76 four-storey blocks of flats with associated infrastructure, surrounded by a road. Within the complex there are no roads for motor vehicles. Another condominium with similar structure was built in the Lomas de Sotelo today with 2,090 apartments, followed by further projects in Mexico City. In the 1970s he designed, funded by the Instituto Nacional de la Vivienda del Fondo para los Trabajadores ( INVONAVIT ) those within Ejército Nacional and part of Pedregal de Carrasco. His other works include designs and plans of factories and bank building.

Urban planning

Agustín Landa designed development plans for several Mexican cities and neighborhoods. His first Stadtplaunungsprojekt was the town Sahagún ( Hidalgo ). Particularly noteworthy is the planning of the city Cancún, which was created in the 1970s on an almost uninhabited island in Quintana Roo. Here also his first hotel, the Cancun Caribe, which now belongs to the Hyatt chain originated. Were also planned by him Ixtapa - Zihuatanejo, Loreto and Los Cabos.