José Luis Cuevas Pietrasanta (1881–1952) was a Mexican architect and urban planner.
He designed the Mexico City subdivisions,[1][2] including the Lomas de Chapultepec (1922),[3] and Colonia Hipódromo (1926, 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.[4] 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]
Cuevas was also responsible for the design of La Escuela de las Artes del Libro (The School of Book Arts) in Mexico City, from 1944 to 1946.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Manuel Sánchez de Carmona; et al., El trazo de Las Lomas y de la Hipódromo Condesa (PDF) (in Spanish), archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29
- ^ 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) (18), UNAM, 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 978-0-8139-3138-8.
- ^ "Histoira de la Arquitectura Mexicana", Gabriela Piña Olivares, Autonomous University of Hidalgo
- ^ Burian, Edward R. (2010-06-28). Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico. University of Texas Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-292-79166-4.