Mario Pani

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In this
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Mario Pani Darqui
Born(1911-03-29)March 29, 1911
Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco
AwardsNational Prize for Arts and Sciences (Mexico) (1986)

Mario Pani Darqui (March 29, 1911 – February 23, 1993) was a famous Mexican

National Conservatory of Music
and other big housing projects called multifamiliares. His son Knut is a well-known artist.

Career

Mario Pani was born in Mexico City. He studied architecture in France and Mexico, and later on he would found the National College of Architects (Mexico) in 1946. In 1938, he began the journal Arquitectura Mexico, which was published until 1979.

Jose Luis Cuevas), Tlatelolco, the Juárez and Miguel Alemán tower blocks, and the condominium in Paseo de la Reforma
, the first of its type in Mexico.

Works

National Conservatory of Music of Mexico

Pani's works include:

  • Hotel Reforma (Paseo de la Reforma at Paris street, Mexico City, 1936)
  • Escuela Nacional de Maestros (Mexico City, 1945)
  • National Conservatory of Music of Mexico
    (Mexico City, 1946)
  • Hotel Plaza, now Secretariat of Urban Development and Housing
  • Secretaria de Recursos Hidráulicos (Mexico City, 1946, currently
    Embassy Suites
    )
  • Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán (Mexico City, 1949)
  • Centro Urbano Presidente Juárez (Mexico City, 1950, more than 50% destroyed after the 1985 earthquake)
  • Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon
  • Ciudad Satélite (1956–1952)
  • Insurgentes 300 condiminium (Colonia Roma, Mexico City 1958)[2]
  • Torre Insignia (Mexico City, 1962)
  • Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco
    (Mexico City, 1964, severely damaged after the 1985 earthquake)
  • Port of Entry, Nogales, Sonora
  • Reforma 268 (condominium)
  • Condominium on Río Guadalquivir between Paseo de la Reforma and Río Volga,
    Colonia Cuauhtémoc

Awards

  • 1986:
    National Prize for Arts and Sciences
    "fine arts"

Tribute

On March 29, 2018, Google celebrated his 107th birthday with a Google Doodle.[3]

See also

Gallery

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mario Pani Darqui.

References

  1. ^ "Con los ojos de Mario Pani (With Mario Pani's eyes), in Spanish". YouTube.
  2. ^ Georgina Cebey, “Insurgentes 300: un fantasma de la modernidad” Letras Libres, 2014
  3. ^ "Mario Pani's 107th Birthday". Google. 29 March 2018.

Further reading

  • Mario Pani. La construcción de la modernidad/ Miquel Adrià (Ediciones G.Gilli, S.A. de C.V.-CONACULTA, México, 2005)
  • La idea del apartamento en México durante el Movimiento Moderno: El proyecto de habitación colectiva en la obra de Carlos Obregón Santacilia, Francisco J. Serrano y Mario Pani. Pérez-Duarte Fernandez, Alejandro (México: PUBLICIA, 2013).
    ISBN 3639551567

External links
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