Luis MacGregor Cevallos

Luis MacGregor Cevallos (1887–1965) was a Mexican architect as well as an author of book on Colonial Mexican architecture.^[1]

His son Luis MacGregor Krieger was also an architect.

Architectural works

MacGregor was known for buildings of Modern architecture.^[1]

• MacGregor designed the garden at Chapultepec Castle in which a sculpture, La Madre Patria, commemorating the Niños Héroes, is located (1924; sculptor Ignacio Asúnsolo; note this is not the better-known, larger monument to the Niños Héroes, Altar a la Patria)^[2][3]
• Parque Agrícola de la Ciudad de México (plan, 1930), Mexico City^[4][5]
• Hospital Central Militar Mexico (1940)^[6]
• Palenque camp and museum^[7]
• Restoration works at the Convent at San Agustín de Acolman^[8]

Books

MacGregor's books included:

• Huejotzingo: The City and the Franciscan Monastery (1934), with Rafael García Granados^[9]
• Actopan (1955)^[10]