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==Early life and family== Juan O'Gorman was born on 6 July 1905 in [[Coyoacán]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Juan O'Gorman|url=https://www.latinamericanart.com/en/artist/juan-ogorman/|access-date=2020-10-12|website=Latin American Art}}{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Danes2">{{cite journal|last1=Danes|first1=Gibson|date=1942|title=Juan O'Gorman|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43466639|journal=Southwest Review|volume=28|issue=1|pages=1–10|jstor=43466639|issn=0038-4712|access-date=12 October 2020}}</ref> then a village to the south of [[Mexico City]] and now a [[Boroughs of Mexico City|borough]] of the city, to an [[Irish immigration to Mexico|Irish immigrant]] father, [[Cecil Crawford O'Gorman]] and Encarnación O'Gorman Moreno. His parents were distant cousins. He had three younger siblings, [[Edmundo O'Gorman|Edmundo]], Margarita and Tomás.<ref name="Murray">{{cite web|last1=Murray|first1=Edmundo|title=O'Gorman, Edmundo (1906-1995), historian|url=http://irlandeses.org/dilab_ogormane.htm|access-date=12 October 2020|website=Dictionary of Irish Latin American Biography}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Canales|first=Francisco Gonzales de|date=2015-06-12|title=Juan O'Gorman (1905-1982)|url=https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/reputations/juan-ogorman-1905-1982|access-date=2020-10-12|website=Architectural Review|language=en}}</ref> Despite his father's influence, O'Gorman chose to focus on architecture early in his career.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Juan O'Gorman|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-OGorman|access-date=2022-07-12}}</ref> In 1927, he graduated from [[Academy of San Carlos]], the Art and Architecture school at the [[National Autonomous University of Mexico]].<ref name="Danes2" /> His first marriage was to Nina Wright, Russian-American architect. He later married [[Helen Fowler]], an American artist with whom he had an adopted daughter.<ref name=":0" />
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