Arquitecto Fray Gabriel Chávez De La Mora
Resumen del Libro
Edition is dedicated to priest, designer and architect Chávez de la Mora (b. Guadalajara, México 1929), a Benedictine friar and the first graduate in architecture of the University of Guadalajara. The edition celebrates his prolific career that started in 1956 when he started designing innovative Catholic churches and chapels that reflect his sensibility and relationship with the environment perfectly combined with a sense of austerity and simplicity. His architecture was considered audacious as he got rid of the aggregated elements of traditional churches, leaving the praying spaces clean of the basic religious images and ornamentations. He collaborated with architects Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and José Luis Benlliure in the new Basílica of Guadalupe. The book is a catalogue of his architectural production as well as presenting his paintings, drawings, sculpture, and innovative liturgical furniture, furnishings, silversmith chalices, garments, stain glass, mosaics, calligraphy and iron creations and his dances for the liturgical popular celebrations, publications, textile banners, heraldic and logo designs.
