Rafael Mijares Alcérreca

Rafael Mijares Alcérreca (23 September 1924 – 9 November 2015) was a Mexican architect and painter.[1][2]

Rafael Mijares Alcérreca
Born(1924-09-23)23 September 1924
Mexico City
Died9 November 2015(2015-11-09) (aged 91)
NationalityMexican
Alma materUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México
OccupationArchitect
AwardsOrder of Leopold II, Belgium

Biography

Mijares studied at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM),[2] and designed a lot of notable buildings, amongst others fifteen markets in Mexico City between 1955 and 1957, together with Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Juan José Díaz Infante Núñez and Javier Echeverría. Together with Ramírez Vázquez he also designed the Estadio Azteca in 1962, and the Museo de Arte Moderno in 1964. Also with Ramírez Vázquez and Jorge Campuzano, he designed the Museo Nacional de Antropología. He participated in the Mexican pavilion at World's fair exhibitions in Seattle, Washington and New York. In 1970, he designed the office building of the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. Together with J. Francisco Serrano Cacho he reconstructed the buildings of the Universidad Iberoamericana's university campus buildings, which were destroyed due to an earthquake in 1979.

Mijares was multiple awarded, amongst others with the Belgian Order of Leopold II.[2]

He also visited courses in José Lazcarro's atelier in the “Molino de Santo Domingo”, and started abstract painting in 1978.[3]

  • Former foreign ministry building Designed by Mijares Alcérreca and Pedro Ramirez Vazquez
  • Estadio Azteca, together with Ramírez Vázquez

References
  1. Noelle, Louise (1993). Arquitectos contemporáneos de Méxic. Louise. p. 100. ISBN 9682446031.
  2. "Muere el arquitecto Rafael Mijares". www.reforma.com (in Spanish). 9 November 2015. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
  3. Artista: Rafael Mijares (1924 -) Archived 2007-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, Universidad de Guadalajara.


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