ArchitectureMcAllen, TXYear Built - 1959 Architects -Merle A. Simpson Text - Stephen FoxMcAllen artist and art collector Ann Maddox Moore built this amazing modern house, designed by Merle A. Simpson, in 1959. Nestled at the end of a cul-de-sac that backs up to the...
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1950, 1951, 1956 Architects -Enrique León de la Barra, Augustín Reyes Escobar, Sergio Paredes Rangel, Ignacio López Bancalari, Frank Lloyd Wright Text and Photos - Stephen FoxAcross the border from Brownsville, Texas, is Matamoros,...
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1963 Architects -Mario Pani, Hilario Galguera Text and Photos - Stephen FoxDuring a recent lecture for the Lower Rio Grande Valley chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Stephen Fox presented this information about “La...
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1969 Architects - Mario Pani Text and Photos - Stephen FoxThe Centro Artesanal in Matamoros, built in 1969 in the second phase of PRONAF development, after Mario Pani ceased to be affiliated with PRONAF, was as dramatic in its use of...
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1941-46, 1953 Architects - Enrique de la Mora e Ing. Armando Ravizé Rodríguez Text and Photos - Stephen FoxBasílica de la Purísima, Monterrey, 1941-46, Arq. Enrique de la Mora e Ing. Armando Ravizé Rodríguez Although proponents of the...
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1958 Architects - Luis MacGregor KriegerAeropuerto Internacional General Servando Canales, Matamoros (1958) Arq. Luis MacGregor Krieger Matamoros attracted a second young architect from Mexico City, Luis MacGregor Krieger, who was...
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1958 Text and Photos - Stephen FoxPani’s plan regulador for Matamoros was consistent with the modernist planning logic of Nueva Ciudad Guerrero. It aimed to transform the edges of a 19th-century Creole city into an exemplar of...
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1940s Architects - Jorge ElizaldeThe Lázaro Cárdenas administration began construction in the 1930s of a network of flood protection levees, diversion dams, and irrigation canals that, as historian Casey Walsh demonstrates, converted...
ArchitectureMatamorosSergio Paredes designed the Casa López Padrón not in Colonia Jardín but in Matamoros’s Zona Centro on Calle Sexta, the city’s principal north-south thoroughfare. Matamoros architects were called on to insert modern houses into mixed-use, urban...
ArchitectureMatamorosYear Built - 1964 Architects -Arqs. Mario Pani y Hilario GalgueraThe most publicized modern architecture built along the lower Río Grande in the 1960s was produced in conjunction with a Mexican government initiative, the Programa Nacional...