death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
falls church , virginia january 18 , 2009 -lrb- aged 90 -rrb- havana , cuba july 24 , 1918 max borges , jr. .
 max e. borges , jr. .
max borges , jr. .

max borges , jr. , born max borges-recio -lrb- july 24 , 1918 -- january 18 , 2009 -rrb- , was a cuban architect exiled in the united states .
he studied in the united states , earning his bachelor degree at georgia tech and a master 's degree at the harvard graduate school of design .
borges ' style was highly influenced by his work with spanish structural engineer félix candela who practiced in mexico and was a specialist in lightweight concrete parabolic structures .
borges invited candela to work with him in cuba , and they both developed extraordinary projects .
his best known work is the tropicana club of 1951 , for which he later designed expansions .
other unique buildings like the 1943 apartment building of max borges-del junco at jovellar st. and the club náutico place borges among one of few modern architects of the americas with a unique recognizable original style .
after 1959 his family moved to the united states , where he remained active well into the 1980s , along with his brother enrique , designing and building many residential and commercial buildings in the washington metropolitan area .
