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Palmas 555, Mexico City
1975 · Gelatin silver prints
7 7/8 x 9 13/16" (20 x 25 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Juan Sordo Madaleno
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WA-00034905
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2
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5
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11
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The Architecture of Luis Barrag�n
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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Latin American Architecture Since 1945
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955–1956
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Juan Sordo Madaleno was a Mexican architect whose postwar practice synthesized modernist principles with vernacular Mexican spatial traditions. Operating primarily in Mexico City from the 1940s onward, he designed residential, institutional, and commercial buildings that balanced international modernism with regional material and cultural specificity. His work helped establish a distinctive Mexican modernist idiom distinct from North American or European models.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 28d ago
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5 published of 10 catalogued · 6 with image
- MoMA5 publishedof 10 catalogued6 img
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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