title: Luis MacGregor Cevallos
text: # Luis MacGregor Cevallos
  
  Luis MacGregor Cevallos (1887–1965) was a Mexican architect as well as an author of book on Colonial Mexican architecture.
  
  His son Luis MacGregor Krieger was also an architect.
  
  ## Architectural works
  
  MacGregor was known for buildings of Modern architecture.
  
  * MacGregor designed the garden at Chapultepec Castle in which a sculpture, La Madre Patria, commemorating the Niños Héroes, is located (1924; sculptor Ignacio Asúnsolo; note this is not the better-known, larger monument to the Niños Héroes, Altar a la Patria)
  * Parque Agrícola de la Ciudad de México (plan, 1930), Mexico City
  * Hospital Central Militar Mexico (1940)
  * Palenque camp and museum
  * Restoration works at the Convent at San Agustín de Acolman
  
  ## Books
  
  MacGregor's books included:
  
  * Huejotzingo: The City and the Franciscan Monastery (1934), with Rafael García Granados
  * Actopan (1955)
  