page_title: Agustín Landa Verdugo
section_title: Other Notable Projects
hierarchical_section_title: Agustín Landa Verdugo / Other Notable Projects
caption_attribution_description: English: French Parish in Mexico City, by architects Enrique and Agustín Landa Verdugo, finished in 1967. Español: Parroquia Francesa en la Ciudad de México, obra de los arquitectos Enrique y Agustín Landa Verdugo, inaugurada en 1967
context_page_description: Agustín Landa Verdugo was a Mexican architect and urban planner, born in Mexico City. He studied architecture in the National University of Mexico. In 1945 he established a firm with his brother Enrique, with whom he designed hundreds of public and private buildings during four decades of partnership. The firm's work distinguished itself by its modern language and the efficiency and economy of the solutions it proposed.
  The work of Landa Verdugo's firm was influential in many areas of architecture in Mexico, including the design of hospitals and social housing, where its pioneering designs became standards for younger architects.
  As an urban planner, Agustin Landa Verdugo was the author of the master plan of a number of new cities and neighborhoods in Mexico, most notably the city of Cancún, which was built in the early 1970s in an uninhabited island in the state of Quintana Roo.
context_section_description: Other notable projects by architect Agustín Landa Verdugo include the French Parish in Mexico City, for the French Catholic Community, the original facilities of the National Free Textbook Commission (CONALITEG) of the Secretariat of Public Education, and an unbuilt proposal from 1967 to build a new international airport for Mexico City in the town of Zumpango.
caption: French Parish in Mexico City, from 1967
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