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Name
  
Luis Cevallos


Children
  
Luis MacGregor Krieger

Role
  
Luis MacGregor Krieger's father

Luis MacGregor Cevallos (1887–1965) was a Mexican architect as well as an author of book on Colonial Mexican architecture.

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His son Luis MacGregor Krieger was also an architect.

Architectural works

MacGregor was known for buildings of Modern architecture.

  • MacGregor designed the garden at Chapultepec Castle in which a sculpture, La Madre Patria, commemorating the Niños Héroes, is located (1924; sculptor Ignacio Asúnsolo; note this is not the better-known, larger monument to the Niños Héroes, Altar a la Patria)
  • Parque Agrícola de la Ciudad de México (plan, 1930), Mexico City
  • Hospital Central Militar Mexico (1940)
  • Palenque camp and museum
  • Restoration works at the Convent at San Agustín de Acolman

    • Books

    MacGregor's books included:

  • Huejotzingo: The City and the Franciscan Monastery (1934), with Rafael García Granados
  • Actopan (1955)

    • References

    Luis MacGregor Cevallos Wikipedia
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