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Eduardo Terrazas (Guadalajara, Mexico 1936) is a Mexican architect, urban planner, graphic designer and artist. He lives and works in Mexico City. Terrazas, along with Lance Wynman, is known as the co-designer of the logo for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. He also designed the temporary urban design fixtures installed in the city for the games. As an artist, Terrazas's work is notable for it's fusion of modernist geometric abstraction with indigenous Mexican handicraft techniques. He is a recipient of the Architectural Digest Iconic Designers Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award.

Terrazas is represented by the galleries Proyectos Monclova in Mexico City, Timothy Taylor in London, and Nils Staerk Gallery in Copenhagen.

Early life and education
Terrazas was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. He received his bachelor degree in architecture from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City, (1958) and his MFA in architecture from Cornel University, (1960). In 1963 he travelled to Paris to study for a degree in prefabricated architecture from the Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment.                                                                                                                            

1968 Olympics
The concentric circular pattern of the logo for the Mexico City 1968 Olympic Games was inspired by Mexican Huicho l handcraft techniques and set a precedent for the geometric forms that define Terrazas’s visual language. The logo and corresponding printed materials for the 1968 Olympics have been featured in a number of exhibitions on graphic design including Graphics 1: New Dimensions (1970) and  at Moma, New York and in Diseñando México 68: una identidad olímpica at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City. His design for the 1968 Mexican Pavilion in Expo Milan was based on the design of the 1968 Olympics logo.

Architect
Terrazas has designed a number of architecturally significant buildings, including the remodel of Terminal 1 of the Mexico City Benito Juarez International Airport, as well as la Alianza Francesa, the Museo Tecnológico de la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (MUTEC) and the Torre del Ángel building. He also designed the architectonics for the Espacio Cultural Metropolitano (METRO) in Tampico, the Centro Cultural Nuevo Laredo in Nuevo Laredo, the Centro de Exposiciones y Convenciones (Expo Tampico) as well as the Centro de Arte y Cultura de Reynosa.

Terrazas´s architectural works have been included in various museum exhibitions including Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1950-1988 (2015) at The Museum of Modern Art (Moma) New York.

In 2008 he was named one of the 40 most influential architects in the last 40 years by architecture platform Obra.

Artist
Terrazas’s artistic practice includes decades-long bodies of work such as Possibilities of a Structure (1970-present day), an ongoing pictorial investigation based on the characteristics of geometric forms that allow a structure to be infinitely developed and transformed. Other bodies of work include or the series Tablas (70's - present day) that utilizes a handcraft technique of the Huichol community in which yarn is set in place using Campeche wax. This series is realized in the collaboration with the artisan Santos Motoaapohua de la Torres Santiago. Finally, El Museo del Cotidiano is a series of photographic and assemblage works (1987-present day)

In 2017 Terrazas was selected by curator Hans Ulrich Oberist as one eight artists working in Mexico for his book, Conversations in Mexico.

Select individual exhibitions

 * La Segunda Naturaleza at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Mexico City, (2015)
 * Posibilidades de una Estructura, Casa Barragán, Mexico City (2012)
 * Posibilidades de una Estructura, Museo de Arte de Sinaloa, Sinaloa (2010)

Select group exhibitions

 * 10th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre (2015)
 * Now! Seeking an American Present, Biennial of the Americas, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Denver (2015)
 * Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955 - 1980, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York (2015)
 * PLATFORM, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels (2014)
 * Desafío a la estabilidad, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City (2014)
 * Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2013)
 * México: Política y Poética, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco (2011)

Collections
Terrazas's work is included in a number of collections including:
 * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
 * Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
 * The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
 * Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
 * Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico
 * Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
 * Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Chile
 * Fundación-Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
 * Museum of Modern Art (MOMA- architecture and design), New York, USA

Books

 * Eduardo Terrazas: Possibilities of a Structure, Text by Jaime Repollés, Tomás Maldonado, Guillermo Fadanelli, Jim Nikas, Rafael Argullol, Raquel Tibol, Nuria Castañeda, Lorena Wolffer, TURNER, ISBN: 9788493947811 9/30/2012
 * Eduardo Terrazas: Second Nature, Text by Vania Rojas, Paola Duarte, Edward J. Sullivan, Eduardo Terrazas, RM/MACG, ISBN: 9788416282081, 8/25/2015

Notes and References
Eduardo Terrazas's new exhibition opens at Timothy Taylor, London on 4 September

Eduardo Terrazas: “Un buen arquitecto debe tener conciencia social”