Adamo Boari

Adamo Boari (1863 to 1928) was an Italian civil engineer and architect, born in Ferrara and trained at the universities of Ferrara and Bologna, who is remembered chiefly for his work in Mexico. After periods in Brazil and in Chicago, where he was licensed to practise in 1899, he went to Mexico in 1903 at the invitation of the government of Porfirio Diaz. There he designed the Palacio de Correos in Mexico City, completed in 1907, and began the Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1901, a commission that outlasted the Mexican Revolution and was finished only after his death. His other Mexican projects include the Templo Expiatorio in Guadalajara. He returned to Italy in 1916 and died in Rome. Sources describe his style as Art Nouveau and Art Deco with historicist elements.