Corporate Architecture Mexico. As I was completing my degree in Architecture my professor and mentor Arq. Enrique Carral Icaza†, invited me to join him in a new firm as a Junior Partner. He had ended his previous firm “Alvarez y Carral” a firm that had been considered by many the best, including building such as the IBM Headquarters building at Campos Eliseos Mexico City as well as many other corporate architecture designs. It was an honor I was not expecting.
We had no funds and really had to start from the bottom, although he was well know, the times were very difficult, so it was good I was young as I became the manager and leader, except when it came to design, he was the master. My mentor and I did learn from him everything I hadn’t at school.
The partners were Enrique and I, as well as Arnold W. Tucker† head of Knoll Furniture in Mexico, and who would direct our interiors, and Enrique’s nephew Arq. Javier Carral Escalante† who’s brother Jose (Pepe) was the Vice President of bank of America in Mexico.
