Casa Legorreta - San Miguel de Allende

An architectural jewel from the Starchitect Ricardo Legorreta! The historic UNESCO World Heritage village of San Miguel de Allende hosts only one Starchitect-designed residence in the entire city, and this is it — Casa Legorreta, named after the late internationally-renowned Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, the first Latin AIA Gold Medal winner. On the market for the first time ever, the owners worked directly with Legorreta on the design of this home, completing it on a double lot in 2005. Architectural aficionados know that owning a Legorreta home is like owning a Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, or Philip Johnson — they are rare architectural jewels that seldom reach the market. In fact, at time of this editorial, the only other Legorreta on the market globally is Hollywood producer Joel Silver’s Brentwood 25,000 S.F. Legorreta estate priced at $49MM USD. Legorreta’s first U.S. commission in 1985 was the L.A. home for actor