Enrique de la Mora

Enrique de la Mora y Palomar (16 June 1907 – 9 May 1978) was a Mexican architect who designed prominent university buildings and Roman Catholic churches in which he experimented with hyperbolic-paraboloid roofs.

[8] Thus began De la Mora's demand in giving several newer churches a sense of modernity that no other Mexican architect had done previously.

He felt that the modern nature of the blueprints were rather unseemly, but eventually agreed to it due to the encouragement of his Generalissimo who saw it as a way to strengthen bonds between the Spanish and Mexican government.

The building then transforms into a body as its main entrance tunnels the viewer's line of sight towards the heart of this private space located down a set of stairs.

In an interview, modern-day architect Enrique Lastra admitted that he considered De la Mora to be one of the artists during the Modernism Movement he found "heroic," specifically his Seguros Monterrey building constructed circa 1960.