Rogelio Salmona (1929–2007) was a French-Colombian architect, born in Paris and raised in Bogotá, known for red brick and for spirals, curves and radial plans drawn from nature. Invited by Le Corbusier during his 1947 visit to Colombia, he worked as a draughtsman in Le Corbusier's Paris studio for about ten years, and the brickwork he saw in Granada had a lasting influence on him. Late in life he won the Alvar Aalto Medal (2003).
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His first major project, Torres del Parque in Bogotá (1970), is a group of three brick residential towers around a park at the centre of the city. The General Archive of the Nation (1994) is also in Bogotá, and the Centro Cultural de Cali (1990) is in the south-west of the country. The Virgilio Barco Library (2001), set in Bogotá's Simón Bolívar Metropolitan Park, is noted for its handling of water, with pools around the building; it is one of seven sites Colombia has put forward to UNESCO as "The architectural legacy of Rogelio Salmona". Rogelio Salmona's buildings are studied for brick, landscape and public space.
Torres del Parque1970 · Bogotá
Centro Cultural de Cali1990 · Cali
Virgilio Barco Library2001 · Bogotá
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO)1985 · Bogotá
Museo del Oro Quimbaya1986 · Armenia
General Archive of the Nation1994 · Bogota
Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Center2008 · Bogotá