José Luis Cuevas (architect)
Park median in Avenida Ámsterdam, the "grand avenue" of the Mexico City subdivision Colonia Hipódromo de la Condesa, designed in 1926 and inspired in part by Ebenzer's Garden City
José Luis Cuevas Pietrasanta (1881–1952) was a Mexican architect who planned the Mexico City subdivisions:[1][2]
- In 1922, Lomas de Chapultepec[3]
- In 1926, Colonia Hipódromo[4] (a.k.a. Hipódromo de la Condesa), in what is now known as the Condesa area, including its iconic parks Parque México and Parque España
The subdivisions were based on the principles of the Garden City as promoted by Ebenezer Howard, including ample parks and other open spaces, park islands in the middle of "grand avenues" such as Avenida Amsterdam in colonia Hipódromo.[1]
External links
- Biography of Cuevas in Guía de recorridos urbanos de la colonia hipódromo by Marisol Flores Garcí
- Photo of Cuevas, plans of Colonia Hipódromo on Radio Arquitectura (blog)
References
- 1 2 Manuel Sánchez de Carmona; et al., El trazo de Las Lomas y de la Hipódromo Condesa (PDF) (in Spanish)
- ↑ Gabriel Garcia del Valle (1997), "el arquitecto josé luis cuevas pietrasanta (1881-1952)" [the architect josé luis cuevas pietrasanta (1881-1952)] (PDF), Cuadernos de Arquitectura Virreinal (in Spanish) (UNAM) (18), ISSN 0185-8572, retrieved 2013-10-26
- ↑ Dorothee Brantz, Sonja Dümpelmann (1 July 2011). Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century. University of Virginia Press. p. 41. ISBN 081393138X.
- ↑ "Histoira de la Arquitectura Mexicana", Gabriela Piña Olivares, Autonomous University of Hidalgo
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