Carlos Mijares Bracho practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Carlos Mijares Bracho as Mexican architect (1930-2015).
Carlos Mijares Bracho was born at Mexico City in 1930. His recorded nationality is Mexico. He trained at National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect, painter and university teacher.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Mexico shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Carlos Mijares Bracho died in 2015, aged 85. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at National Autonomous University of Mexico
