At the beginning of the 90s, his son Víctor Legorreta is integrated into the team and change the name to Legorreta + Legorreta as a way of representing the change and union of new novel concepts and ideas. Throughout his professional career he taught chairs and conferences in the most important universities in the world and from 1985 to 1998, in collaboration with Charles Moore, he taught a course in the University of California.
Awards and awards
Likewise, it was also sworn for different awards and competitions of which they stand out: Pritzker Award (1983 – 1993)AGA Khan Award (2001), AIA Gold Medal (2006) and the National Prize for Sciences and Arts (2007). It has been the only Mexican architect in receiving the Praemium Imperialedelivered by the Art Association of Japan, and one of the first Latin Americans to obtain the AIA Gold Medal and the gold medal of the International Union of Architects.
We can say with certainty that Mexican architecture would not be the same without the imposing and colorful works of Ricardo Legorreta. After a career of more than 50 years and with projects around the world, he died in Mexico City in 2011 at the age of 80.
Important works
Celanese Mexicana In the 60s and with the rise of new technologies, projects that challenged the architecture of the time and that were shown as revolutionaries emerged. In the case of Celanese Mexicana, this project is considered part of a movement or style called «structuralism» in which the structure takes the predominant place being exposed and showing its qualities.
The interesting thing about this building is that its displacement consists of a mixed structure cube (reinforced concrete and steel) from which the tower begins to develop and where the nucleus of services and circulations is located. To allow each level to have a free floor, the decision was made to structure the tower through Steel tensioners that sustained the steel and slabs of each level.