Carlos Obregón Santacilia belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Carlos Obregón Santacilia as Mexican architect (1896-1961).
Carlos Obregón Santacilia was born at Mexico City in 1896. His recorded nationality is Mexico.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect and painter.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
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 Obregón Santacilia died in 1961, aged 65. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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