Enrique del Moral is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Enrique del Moral as Mexican architect (1906-1987).
Enrique del Moral was born at Irapuato in 1906. His recorded nationality is Mexico. He trained at National Autonomous University of 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.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: National Prize for Arts and Sciences and Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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.
Enrique del Moral died in 1987, aged 81. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- National Prize for Arts and Sciences
- Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Trained at National Autonomous University of Mexico
