Luis Alberto MacGregor Krieger (1918–1997) was a Mexican

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, son of architect,

Luis MacGregor Cevallos Luis MacGregor Cevallos (1887–1965) was a Mexican architect as well as an author of book on Architecture of Mexico#Colonial Period, Colonial Mexican architecture. His son Luis MacGregor Krieger was also an architect. Architectural works MacGreg ...

. He is also the grandfather of Mexican architect Augusto Rodelo Mac Gregor. He was a professor for a period of time at the

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. One of his first projects was the design and construction of a small museum for the archeological site of

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in southern

, which still stands and operates today. His predominant architectural style was

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, with many influences from his contemporaries during the mid-century movement around the world. His college thesis was a design for the new

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, which during the time was a very innovative idea and design. Prior to his thesis, all archeological artifacts and study groups in Mexico were located in several warehouses, museums, and government facilities scattered across the country without a proper organizational system or building. His thesis revolutionized and triggered the efforts to create such an institution in Mexico City
Hotel Mexico: Dwelling on the '68 Movement

Works

* Faculty of Engineering (UNAM) ) at the Ciudad Universitaria (

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"University City"), Mexico City (collaboration with Francisco J. Serrano and Fernando Pineda), 1953 * Edificio Centro Olímpico (1967–8, together with Francisco J. Serrano and Fernando Pineda), later headquarters of Aeromexico, razed 2018,

Paseo de la Reforma Paseo de la Reforma (literally "Promenade of La Reforma, the Reform") is a wide avenue that runs diagonally across the heart of Mexico City. It was designed at the behest of Maximilian of Mexico, Emperor Maximilian by Ferdinand von Rosenzweig d ...

445,

. Set to be demolished in 2017. *

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Site Museum

* Parque Agrícola de la Ciudad de México (plan, 1930), Mexico City *

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(1940) *A garden at

Chapultepec Castle Chapultepec Castle () is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park. The name ''Chapultepec'' is the Nahuatl word which means "on the hill of the grasshopper". It is located at the entrance to Chapultepec park, at a he ...

in which a sculpture, La Madre Patria, commemorating the Niños Héroes, is located (1924; sculptor Ignacio Asúnsolo) *

Palenque Palenque (; Yucatec Maya: ), also anciently known in the Itza Language as Lakamha ("big water" or "big waters"), was a Maya city-state in southern Mexico that perished in the 8th century. The Palenque ruins date from ca. 226 BC to ca. 799 AD ...

Camp and Museum *(Book)

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: The City and the Franciscan Monastery (1934) *(Book) Actopan (1955)

References

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