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{{short description|Cuban-born American architect (1918–2009)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Max E. Borges Jr.
| image =
| caption = Tropicana Arcos de Cristal. Havana, Cuba.
| birth_name = Max Borges Recio
| birth_date = July 24, 1918
| birth_place = [[Havana]], [[Cuba]]
| death_date = January 18, 2009 (aged 90)
| death_place = [[Falls Church]], [[Virginia]], United States
| citizenship = Cuba<br /> United States
| education = [[Georgia Tech]], [[Harvard Graduate School of Design]]
| occupation = Architect
| spouse = Mignon Olmo-Garrido (married 1944)
| children = 2
| father = [[Max Borges del Junco]]
}}

'''Max Borges Jr.''' (born '''Max Borges Recio'''; July 24, 1918 – January 18, 2009),<ref>Belmont Freeman. "Max Borges, 1918-2009". "The Architect's Newspaper" {{cite web|url=http://www.archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID%3D3248%26PagePosition%3D1 |title=The Architect's Newspaper |accessdate=2009-07-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090314000139/http://archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=3248 |archivedate=2009-03-14 }}, March 4, 2009</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=January 21, 2009 |title=Max E. Borges Obituary |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/max-borges-obituary?id=5631471 |work=[[The Washington Post]] |via=Legacy.com}}</ref> was a [[Cuba]]n-born [[architect]], best known for his work in [[Havana]] in the 1940s and 1950s. He moved to the United States in later life.

==Biography==
[[File:Tropicana Arcos de Cristal. Havana, Cuba.jpg|thumb|[[Tropicana Club]]. 1951]]
Borges Jr. was born in Cuba, the son of [[Max Borges del Junco]], an architect. He later studied in the United States, earning his bachelor's degree at [[Georgia Tech]] and a master's degree at the [[Harvard Graduate School of Design]]. Borges Jr. returned to Cuba and joined his father's firm, together with his brother Enrique.

Borges' style was influenced by his work with Spanish structural engineer [[Félix Candela]] who practiced in Mexico and was a specialist in lightweight concrete parabolic structures. Borges invited Candela to work with him in Cuba, and they both developed extraordinary projects.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/337532511/Los-cabarets-de-Max-Borges-y-Felix-Candela-estructuras-laminares-compartidas#from_embed|title=Los cabarets de Max Borges y Félix Candela: estructuras laminares compartidas|access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref> His best known work is the [[Tropicana Club]] of 1951, for which he later designed expansions. Other unique buildings like the 1943 Apartment Building of Max Borges-del Junco at Jovellar St. and the [[Club Náutico]] place Borges among a few modern architects of the Americas with a recognizable, original style.

After 1959 his family moved to the United States, where he remained active well into the 1980s, along with his brother Enrique, designing and building many residential and commercial buildings in the [[Washington Metropolitan Area]].<ref>[http://www.legacy.com/WASHINGTONPOST/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=123080600 Obituary, The Washington Post, January 21–23, 2009]</ref>

==Awards==
[[File:1953_Max_Borges_Jr._Colegio_de_Arquitectos_Tropicana_Night_Club.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Colegio de Arquitectos Premio, 1953.]]
He twice won the Cuban [[Colegio Nacional de Arquitectos de Cuba|National College of Architects]] Award. First, for his "Medical and Surgical Center" built in 1948 in El [[Vedado]] and, the second time, for the [[Tropicana Club]] in 1953. In 2006, he was awarded the [[Oscar B. Cintas|Cintas Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lifetime Achievement Award |url=http://www.cintasfoundation.org/fellows_lifetime.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511155431/http://www.cintasfoundation.org/fellows_lifetime.htm |archive-date=May 11, 2009 |website=Cintas Foundation}}</ref>

==Family==
He was son of architect [[Max Borges del Junco]], a well-known Cuban architect. His brother was architect [[Enrique Borges Recio]], with whom he authored many works as partner. He married Mignon Olmo-Garrido (March 18, 1923–May 6, 2007) on February 5, 1944 at San Juan de Letrán Catholic Church in Havana, Cuba and they had two sons, Philip M. and [[Max M. Borges Olmo]] (also an architect).

==Notable projects==
[[File:Max Borges Jr. Centro Médico Quirúrgico. 1948.jpg|thumb|Centro Médico Quirúrgico. 1948]]
[[File:Club Náutico - Max Borges Recio 1953.jpg|thumb|[[Club Náutico]]. 1953]]
[[File:Max Borges Jr. Edificio Anter, La Habana, 1954.jpg|thumb|Edificio Anter, La Habana, 1954]]
[[File:Max Borges Jr. House 1958.jpg|thumb|Max Borges Jr. House_1958]]
* House of Santiago Claret (1941)
* House of Martin Fox (1941)
* Apartment Building of Max Borges del Junco (1943)
* House of Paula Maza (1946)
* House of Max Borges Recio (1948)
* Medical and Surgical Center (Centro Medico Quirurgico) (1948)
* [[Tropicana Club]] (1951), Havana, Cuba
* [[Club Náutico]] (1953), Havana, Cuba
* Partagas Building (1954)
* Anter Building (1954)
* Nunez Bank (1957)
* House of Alberto Borges (1957)
* House of Humberto Tous (1957)

== See also ==
{{Portal|Cuba}}
* [[Mario Girona]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
* ''The Havana Guide - Modern Architecture 1925-1965'', Eduardo Luis Rodriguez (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000) {{ISBN|1-56898-210-0}}
* ''La Habana'', Eduardo Luis Rodriguez, Pepe Navarro (photographer), Blume 1998.
* ''Directorio Internacional de Familias Cubanas, Volumen XI 1996-1997'' {{in lang|es}}
* ''The Washington Post'', May 8, 2007

== External links ==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz6vc0hhXeM&t=84s Arcos de Cristal]

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