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Society of American Registered Architects International Award The International Award is presented to an architect, whether or nor a SARA member, registered or licensed in any state, territory or possession of the United States or in any country in or outside of the North or South American continents and the Islands of the Western Hemisphere, who has distinguished himself or herself in the institutional, academic and/or professional field(s) and has generated a body of work and/or applied the Golden Rule materially, spiritually and intellectually towards the betterment of the profession of architecture and the unity of all architects of different cultures and countries.
SARA 2007 International Award Recipient: 
Ricardo Legorreta Prepared by Adriana Garcia, FARA
Ricardo Legorreta, internationally recognized Mexican architect has been selected to be our recipient of this year’s International Award.
Mr. Legorreta was born in Mexico City in 1931. He graduated in 1953 from the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) with a degree in Architecture. He established his own practice in 1960 after working for other architects and has since designed a very diverse group of buildings in his native Mexico and in the USA, Israel, Japan, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Nicaragua, Qatar and other countries.
He has also taught in the UNAM, the universities of Harvard, Texas, UCLA, lecturing in the universities in Mexico, Argentina, Barcelona, Chile, Costa Rica, Madrid, Toronto, Uruguay, Vancouver, etc.
His buildings are characterized by the use of bright, bold colors and solid geometric shapes. Ricardo Legorreta has mastered the interaction of walls and planes, which he reinforces with intense colors and the masterly use of light, shadows and texture with the integration of autochthonous values.
He has received many awards and recognition and two Gold Medal: in 1999 from the International Union of Architects (based in France) and in 2000 from the AIA.
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Previous International Award Recipients are:
| 1960 Oscar Neimeyer, Brazil 1994 Jaime C. Salles, FARA, Miami 1995 Sixto Duran-Ballen, Ecuador 1996 Wilfred J. Gregson, FARA, Atlanta 1998 D. Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, Mexico | 1999 Carlos Ma.della Paolera, Argentina 2000 Carlos Lazo Barreiro, Mexico 2001 Ignasi De Sola-Morales, Spain 2003 Steven P. Papadatos, FARA, NY 2004 Sidney Epstein, FARA, Chicago 2005 Douglas Cardinal, Ottawa 2006 Santiago Calatrava, New York |
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