Adamo Boari
Adamo Boari was an Italian Art Nouveau and Art Deco civil engineer and architect, he had a very active career in Mexico and he is known for the construction of notable Historicist architectural works in this country.
Boari was born in Ferrara. He studied at the University of Ferrara and afterwards at the University of Bologna where he graduated in 1886. After he had done several works for the National Exhibition of architecture in Turin. He went to Brazil in 1889 where he works as Project Manager for a Universal Exhibition. After visiting the country and some other cities in different countries of South America like Buenos Aires and Montevideo and after recovering from yellow fever he went to the United States where he lived in Chicago. In 1899 he got permission to work in the United States as an architect. In 1903 he went to Mexico, where under the regime of President Porfirio Díaz, and for which he is invited, he carries out several projects, among which it highlights: the Cathedral of Matehuala (1898), the Templo Expiatorio del Santísimo Sacramento in Guadalajara (1899) and a monument to Porfirio Díaz (1900). It is very probable that he designed the Church of San Antonio Limón in the state of Veracruz. He also designed his house, which was located in the Colonia Roma of Mexico City and was demolished in 1940.
