Pedro Ramirez Vazquez - Artist Info

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Pedro Ramirez Vasquez
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    Following is The New York Times obituary of the architect and sculptor.

    Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Celebrated Mexican Architect, Dies at 94

    By SAM DILLON
    Published: April 17, 2013


    Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, the architect who led many of Mexico's landmark Modernist construction projects of the mid-20th century, including museums, the country's largest sports stadium and the shrine that attracts its most important religious pilgrimage, died on Tuesday, his 94th birthday, in Mexico City.

    His death was announced by Mexico's National Arts Council.

    Over six decades in which much of Mexico evolved from a mostly peasant society into a modern industrial state, Mr. Ramírez and his collaborators bu...

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