José Villagrán GarcÃa
José Villagrán García ( born September 22, 1901 in Mexico City, † June 10, 1982 ) was a Mexican architect and 1967, founding member of the Academia de Artes.
Biography
Villagrán studied architecture at the School of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM) and received his Master's degree in 1923 and was in 1924 a professor of design. In 1925, according to his plans, completed the Institute of Hygiene in Popotla is regarded as the first building of contemporary architecture in Mexico. In 1926 he was appointed Professor of Architectural Theory, a position he held until 1982. His works include many hospitals, institutes, colleges, hotels, movie theaters and office buildings. Between 1943 and 1946 he took over for the Republic of Mexico, the coordination of planning for hospitals and the regional planning of the Mexican school buildings.
In 1962 he published with the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura the " Teoría de la Arquitectura " ( German theory of architecture).