Born on September 22, 1901, Jose Villagran Garcia was a Mexican architect. He studied at Academy San Carlos for 4 years. After graduation, Villagran Garcia was one of the many hired by the government under President Alvaro Obregon to design structures that "carried meaning". During that period he designed the National Stadium, in Mexico City, a huge neo-Colonial structure in the eighteenth century style. The building seated over 30,000 and was constructed of concrete and native stone.
Villagran Garcia became the chair of Architecture at his alma mater and was responsible for designing the master plan for the University. He also developed numerous theories for Modernist Architecture. He received prizes and awards for his work, including the National Prize of Architecture, in 1980.
Monument to the Mother
photos by Carlos Tomasini
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