A few weeks after the end of the year, The architect Agustín Hernández He died on Thursday, November 10 in his favorite city, at the CDMX. He went out every morning to work at his study in the form of a spacecraft, which he designed in 1975. Shortly before saying goodbye to this world, He kept working a project involved a new enrarted to the heroíco school militaA probably his most recognized work.
In we said goodbye to the teacher of the mergers, mainly, the pre -Hispanic and the Bauhaus with a well -deserved and sense tribute to his life and work.
The architect Agustín Hernández with the model of his workshop and home in Mexico City.Courtesy of Agustín Hernández
Each project of Agustín Hernández (Mexico, 1924) – Located of unexpected volumes and capable of stopping traffic – is a tactile interpretation of the Deep study of pre -Hispanic life turned to contemporaneity; A modern and absolutely personal architectural practice.
In 1954 he entered the ring as a graduate of the National Architecture Schoolwith a thesis that challenged the conventional. However, their proposals, no matter how quietly they seem, had well -rooting bases. “You have to know how to find those roots of our past, drip them and extract what we can use. Not only in architecture, but in life itself, ”he said Agustín Hernández Navarro.
This Mesoamerican influence It becomes evident in the structural, space and function design of the Heroic Military College, whose reminiscences to Teotihuacán and Monte Albán are clear.
Workshop and home of the architect (1970), Mexico City.Courtesy of Agustín Hernández