Rogelio Salmona

Rogelio Salmona (* 1929 in Paris; † 3 October 2007) was a Colombian architect.

Life

Rogelio Salmona was born in Paris in 1929 as a Spanish father and a French mother child; the family moved to early to Colombia. He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Salmona worked in the early 1950s along with Le Corbusier in Paris at the project for the new capital, Chandigarh in Indian state of Punjab. The mid-1950s he opened his own office in Bogotá. Famous Works Salmonas are a house for Gabriel García Márquez in Cartagena, the Colombian National Archives " Archivo General " and the " Virgilio Barco Library ".

Among other honors, received the Alvar Aalto Salmona medal was the first Latin American architect 2003.

Awards and honors

• Colombian National Architecture Prize ( 1986, 1988 and 1990)
• Prince Claus Prize (1998 )
• Profesional Trajectory in Architecture Prize II, Ibero American Biennial of Architecture and Civil Engineering ( 2000)
• Alvar Aalto Medal ( 2003)
• Manuel Tolsá Medal, Autonomous University of México (2004)