National Center for the Arts
Item
- Title
- National Center for the Arts
- Alternative Title
- National School of the Visual Arts, "La Esmeralda"
- Creator
- Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis (Mexican architect and furniture designer, born 1931)
- City
- Mexico City, Distrito Federal, México
- Country
- México
- Date Created
- 1994
- Century
- 20th century
- Classification
- Architecture and City Planning
- Style/Period
- Mexican Minimalism/ Modernism
- Cultural Context
- Mexican
- Materials
- Concrete
- steel
- glass
- Description
- Detail of exterior projections around fenestrations of the twelve-story Adminstrative and Research Tower comprised of two linked volumes, a triangular form containing vertical ciculation and a cylindrical form containing the research centers.
- Source
- Javier Gomez
- Photographer
- Javier Gomez
- Rights Holder
- © Javier Gomez
- Texas Tech University Libraries
- Access Rights
- Users must request permission from the copyright holder for all use in publications, including theses and dissertations.
Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis (Mexican architect and furniture designer, born 1931), “National Center for the Arts”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed July 16, 2026, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/35081