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Carlos Mijares Bracho was born in Mexico City on April 26, 1930 and graduated from the National School of Architecture in 1952. In 100×100, architects of the 20th century in Mexico, Fernanda Canales wrote that his architecture arises from the patient and stubborn work on the compositional and structural possibilities of a single material and a single element: fired red clay brick. Mijares combined practice with teaching, which he had practiced since 1954: he was a teacher recognized and appreciated by several generations. His work stood out—according to Canales—in three fields: industrial architecture, sacred architecture, and residential architecture. “The Boerg and Beck factories in Vallejo and the Automotive.
Vehicles of Mexico factories, in Toluca and the Federal District, contrast by being eminently functional works, in opposition to the temples he made, predominantly symbolic, based on the almost C Level Contact List playful repetition of elements. such as arches and buttresses and in the laborious design of different ways to let in natural light. This conception is also reflected in the design of houses such as his family's, from 1959, the Fernández and the Diaz Barreiro. In 1965 he built the Champion spark plug factory, with murals by Carlos Mérida and a tower and fountain designed by Mathias Goeritz.” In a text published in number 82 of Architecture magazine, in June 1963, Mijares already spoke about “the appearance.
Of regional, formal, psychological or emotional trends” and “the more or less frank inspiration in architectures of the past; the search for originality, the enthusiasm for expression through fantastic structures and the possibilities that technique lends to new and even old materials.” So, at 33 years old and reacting to the then surprising expressive ramblings of some masters of the first generations of modern architects—he mentions Le Corbusier in Ronchamp and Chandigarh, but also Rudolph, Kahn, Saarinen and Tange—Mijares takes position regarding his own work to come: the parishes of Ciudad Hidalgo—begun in 1968 and completed in 1983—and that of Junganpeo, in Michoacán, or the Chist Church in Mexico City. In an interview with his good friend Humberto Ricalde, Mijares says that “when you think you 'invent' something in architecture, you don't know, because sooner.
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