Carlos Obregón Santacilia

This promoted designs that would give better quality and spatial conditions for the proletariats to which a Juan Legaretta won first prize and his modernistic pueblo-styled buildings came to fruition in 1934.

[11] Despite having professors that pushed the European style like most art academies, Obregon Santacilia used an unorthodox and more indigenous approach to his work that gave Mexico a new identity.

[12] His designs were not particularly French like his past professors had trained him to produce but instead he decided to use the tapered and organic styles of pre-colonized Mexico and apply that to modernist architecture.

[6] Santacilia himself had collaborated with Rivera for his unique structure Hotel del Prado to which the artist painted the dining room with a piece Museo Mural.

He has an entire book dedicated to the influences in his career in Mexico City titled Carlos Obregon Santacilia: A Foreunner of Mexican Modernity by Victor Jimenez.