Ricardo Legorreta, Outstanding Mexican Architect Dies at 80
Ricardo Legorreta, the award-winning Mexican architect has died at age 80. Inspired by the great Mexican architect Luis Barragan, Legorreta was best known for bright colors, massive masonry walls, courtyards and facade cutouts that interacted with the bright sunlight of Mexico. Some wonderful examples of his use of bright color can be seen in the purple bell tower in the middle of Pershing Square in Los Angeles, the pink and yellow walls of the Camino Real Hotel in Mexico City, the San Antonio library in Texas colored in his famous "enchilada red" to the outstanding color combination on the Hotel Sheraton in Bilbao. He will be greatly missed not only by the art and architectural communities, but all who knew this gentle man.
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