Enrique Yáñez

Enrique Yáñez (né Enrique Yañez de la Fuente; June 17, 1908 – November 24, 1990) was a Mexican architect. He was a theorist of functionalist architecture, and specialized in Mexican hospital architecture.

Early life and education Enrique Yañez de la Fuente was born on June 17, 1908, in Mexico City.

He studied architecture at the then National School of Architecture (now School of Architecture, UNAM) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, he graduated in 1938.

His building for the (or Mexican Union of Electricians) was completed in 1940 in cooperation with artists David Alfaro Siqueiros and Fermín Revueltas Sánchez, was one of the first buildings in the country with integrated fine art reliefs. Siqueiro's mural "Portrait of the Bourgeoisie" (1940) for Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas headquarters was completed with the help of six assistants, and was politically controversial.

From 1945 to 1952, Yáñez worked on the construction of the , and a series of other hospital buildings followed. La Raza National Medical Center's design was used as a model for other hospitals across Mexico. The National Medical Center for the Secretariat of Health (called Secretaría de Salubridad y Asistencia at the time) was built between 1954 and 1961, with artwork by José Chávez Morado, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Luis Ortiz Monasterio, and Luis Nishizawa.

Yáñez was a "numbered member" (or miembro de número) of the Academia de Artes since 1984.

Works San Cosme School Center (1936), Mexico City, Mexico; now the Escuela Secundaria Anexa a la Normal Superior (ESANS) SME headquarters building (1938), 45 Antonio Caso Street, Tabacalera neighborhood, Mexico City, Mexico; part of the bachelor's thesis (1945), Mexico City, Mexico Escuela Nacional de Maestros (1945), Mexico City, Mexico; designed with Mario Pani National School of Chemical Sciences (1950), Mexico City, Mexico; now the Faculty of Chemistry in Ciudad Universitaria National Medical Center for the SSA (1954), and later sold to the IMSS, affected by the 1985 earthquake Gynecology and Obstetrics Hospital of the ISSSTE of Tlatelolco (1964), Mexico City, Mexico ISSSTE Regional Hospital Lic. Adolfo Lopez Mateos (1967), Mexico City, Mexico ISSSTE Hospital Regional Gral. Ignacio Zaragoza (1973), Mexico City, Mexico HG from the IMSS in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico HG from the IMSS in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico HG of the ISSSTE in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico Mexican Petroleum Institute, Mexico City, Mexico