Manuel Rocha Díaz

In 1960 he spent three months in Japan where he had a big influence on Japanese traditional architecture. In 1962 he married Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, with whom he had two sons, Manuel and Mauricio, and one daughter, Claudia who died at the age of six in 1970. He won a contest in 1970 to build the Bella Vista Golf Club in México City, and from there on he had a successful career. At the end of the 1970s he became a strong supporter of Postmodern architecture and claimed to be a follower of the internationally acclaimed Mexican architect Luis Barragán. His buildings became then a mixture of traditional Mexican and modern architecture. Rocha Diaz built in that period important works such as: the SACM recording studios (the first ones in Latin America capable of having a full orchestra with choir), the SACM cinemas that later became the Cineteca Nacional de México, the conventions center in Morelia México, etc. In 1988 he became numbered academic from the Colegio Nacional de Arquitectos.

• Club de Golf Bella vista, Mexico City, 1971. • Casa redonda en tabachines, Mexico City, 1973. • SACM recording studios, Mexico City, 1977. • SACM cinemas, Mexico City, 1978. • Morelia Conventions center, Morelia Mexico, 1981. • Perinorte commercial center, México City, 1990.

The following is established of the heading itself.

On origins, the institutional record states the following. Díaz died in 1996 at Mexico City. Institutional cataloguing adds that manuel Rocha Díaz was born in 1936 at Mexico City.