The Most Famous

ARCHITECTS from Mexico

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This page contains a list of the greatest Mexican Architects. The pantheon dataset contains 518 Architects, 1 of which were born in Mexico. This makes Mexico the birth place of the 39th most number of Architects behind Syria, and Estonia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Mexican Architects of all time. This list of famous Mexican Architects is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Luis Barragán (1902 - 1988)

With an HPI of 61.36, Luis Barragán is the most famous Mexican Architect.  His biography has been translated into 41 different languages on wikipedia.

Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín [ˈlu.is raˈmi.ɾo βa.raˈɣan moɾˈfin] (March 9, 1902 – November 22, 1988) was a Mexican architect and engineer. His work has influenced contemporary architects visually and conceptually. Barragán's buildings are frequently visited by international students and professors of architecture. He studied as an engineer in his home town, while undertaking the entirety of additional coursework to obtain the title of architect. Barragán won the Pritzker Prize, the highest award in architecture, in 1980, and his personal home, the Luis Barragán House and Studio, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Mexican architects born between 1902 and 1902. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Mexican architects include Luis Barragán.

Deceased Mexican Architects

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