O'Gorman, Juan

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O'Gorman, Juan (1905–82). Mexican architect. He designed houses and schools, influenced by Le Corbusier, regarded as paradigms of Functionalism in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1950s, he had a very public change of heart concerning International Modernism, and began to incorporate Pre-Columbian and vernacular motifs into his designs (e.g. the National Library, State University of Mexico, Mexico City (1952–3—covered with colourful mosaics), and the O'Gorman House II, Mexico City (1953–6—destroyed)).

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