Mario Bautista O'Farril Arquitecto

Mario Bautista O'Farrill, Francisco Serrano, Federico Bautista Alonso, Miquel Adrià

Mario Bautista O'Farril (Puebla 1930) became a benchmark of modernity in a highly conservative poblano context, where architecture had to submit to the guidelines of the past. Some clients saw in their work an architecture similar to the one they were developing in El Pedregal de San Ángel in Mexico City, architects such as Francisco Artigas, the Californian Case Study Houses and, evidently, the radicality of Mies an der Rohe steel and glass boxes. His houses were located in suburban areas since the center of Puebla was always controlled by the National Institute of Anthropology and History.Founder of the Faculty of Architecture of the BUAP, he made many projects recognized nationally and internationally. Among his most outstanding works are the Lastra Building, a mixed building - a residential building with a supermarket on the ground floor - very successful. In fact it was the first...