Alberto Arai
Arai (March 29, 1915 – May 25, 1959) was a Mexican architect, theorist and writer, of Japanese descent. Alberto Arai was born in Mexico City, the fourth son of a Japanese ambassador in Mexico, Kinta Arai, Alberto T. Arai studied also philosophy, espousing neo-Kantianism and becoming politically a socialist artist. He became a supporter of Functionalism, with its emphasis on the social applications of architecture, and was also a founder, with Enrique Yañez, of the Unión de Arquitectos Socialistas (1938), helping to draw up a socialist theory of architecture.
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Alberto Arai
- Born
- 1915 · Mexico City.
- Died
- 1959
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Occupation
- architect · painter
- Languages
- Spanish
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Arai (March 29, 1915 – May 25, 1959) was a Mexican architect, theorist and writer, of Japanese descent. Alberto Arai was born in Mexico City, the fourth son of a Japanese ambassador in Mexico, Kinta Arai, Alberto T. Arai studied also philosophy, espousing neo-Kantianism and becoming politically a socialist artist. He became a supporter of Functionalism, with its emphasis on the social applications of architecture, and was also a founder, with Enrique Yañez, of the Unión de Arquitectos Socialistas (1938), helping to draw up a socialist theory of architecture.
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Born at Mexico City in 1915, died in 1959.
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1915
Alberto Arai born at Mexico City.
1959
Alberto Arai died.
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- 1.Arai, Alberto T., La Arquitectura de Bonampak, INBA, México, 1960.
- 2.Arai, Alberto T., Caminos para una Arquitectura Mexicana, Conaculta-INBA, México, 2001.
- 3.Arai, Alberto T., "Regionalismo Arquitectónico" en Regionalismo, Conaculta.INBA, México, 2003.
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