Mathias Goeritz

Mathias Goeritz was born in Danzig, German Empire (now Gdańsk, Poland) in 1915[citation needed] and spent his childhood in Berlin.

[3] In the summer of 1948, Goeritz and Ferrant traveled to visit the prehistoric paintings of the Cave of Altamira in the north of Spain, along with writer Ricardo Gullón and others.

[5] In 1953, he first presented his "Manifiesto de la Arquitectura Emocional" (Emotional Architecture Manifesto) at the pre-inauguration of the Museo Experimental El Eco in Mexico City, which he designed in 1952–53.

During the 1950s, Goeritz also collaborated with Luis Barragán to make monumental abstract sculptures in reinforced concrete, including El animal del Pedregal (The Animal of the Pedregal, 1951) and the Torres de la Ciudad Satélite (Towers of Satellite City, 1957).

[citation needed] Goeritz exhibited widely in Mexico and beyond throughout his life, and had a significant influence on younger Mexican artists such as Helen Escobedo and Pedro Friedeberg.

Torres de Satélite , México, D. F., by Luis Barragán with Mathias Goeritz
Yellow wall at El Eco's patio
El pájaro de fuego (The fire bird) by Goeritz. In Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. View from south.
Las Torres , the main emblem of the School of High Studies (FES) Aragón of the National Autonomous University of Mexico