Legorreta – Architecture to Serve the People

I enjoyed reading about Legoretta’s work, his love for his heritage and how that translates into his work.  His philosophy of architecture to serve the people is a very simple one and reminds us that ultimately, it is the end user we are designing for.  Not the client or the developer, but the worker.  In the interview he described his approach to the design of the IBM factory and how he focused on the worker instead of creating some grand statement about IBM.  The design of the Children’s Museum was also the same, with the main user, the children in mind.  His exuberance for “Viva La Mexico” is apparent not just in the color or forms that he uses but in the scale of his projects and in his understanding of movement through spaces.  Or more importantly as the Introduction describes, he allows the viewer to fully understand a space before moving on to the next.  This discovery of a sequence of spaces also adds to the  mystery of his architecture.