Jean Grimm's Mexican Art and Culture Tours

Architecture Tour

In & around Mexico City & Puebla

8 Days, October 14-21, 2010

On this brand new tour, feast your eyes on some of the world’s most dazzling eye candy of the 20th and the 21st centuries when you view uniquely creative Mexican contemporary and futuristic structures by architects who have continually reinvented themselves. We balance these new cutting edge gems with architectural gems from bygone eras.

See masterpieces designed by Mexico’s top architects, including: Luis Barragan, Felix Candela, Ricardo Legorreta, Legorreta+Legorreta, Teodoro Gonzales de Leon, Xavier Sordo Madaleno, Enrique Norton, Juan O’Gorman and Michel Rojkind.

Visit!

Barragan’s house (1947), and his last, and most perfect structure Convento de las Madres Capuchinas (1955)

Candela’s Las Manantiales (1958) with an elegant super-thin hyperbolic paraboloid shell structure

Legorreta’s Centro Nacional de Las Artes (1994) with intersecting geometric shapes

Legorreta+Legorreta’s Juarez Complex (2003) with a basement made out of “Huixquilucan Pearl“ stone and a fountain with one thousand pyramids

Gonzales de Leon’s spectacular new Contemporary Art Museum at UNAM (2008)

Sordo Madaleno’s Club de Industriales with interior rooms furnished with contemporary Mexican designer furniture, and a superb Mexican art collection

Norton’s Hotel Habita (2000), pristine white minimalism, wrapped in translucent glass

O’Gorman's UNAM Library wrapped in a mosaic mural (1952) and Diego Rivera's Anahuacalli.

Rojkind’s Mexico Nestle Chocolate Museum (2007) bright red and fantastic and just as revolutionary inside as outside.

Tour Santa Fe, Mexico City’s newest district to view futuristic buildings by Mexico’s leading contemporary architects; Plaza Santa Domingo, Mexico City’s most ancient plaza dating back to the 1500s; and downtown Mexico City with structures from the 16th through 21st centuries.

In and near Puebla, see the fabulous churches of Amatepec and Santa Maria Tonantzintla; as well as the impeccably restored 18th century Hacienda Munive with a great Mexican art collection and hand crafted furniture (some made out of antique doors).

Visit a fabulous Talavera pottery factory.

You will stay in Hotel Camino Real and Hotel La Purificadora, both designed by Legorreta.

You will dine in fabulous restaurants.

Cost: Double occupancy: $2,295. Single occupancy: $2,695. Airfare not included.