Miguel Vila Luna, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Miguel Vila Luna

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1943

Place of Birth: Santiago de los Caballeros, Santiago Province, Dominican Republic

Date of Death: 01-Apr-2005

Profession: architect, artist, art educator

Nationality: Dominican Republic

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Miguel Eduardo "Micky" Vila Luna (July 7, 1943 – April 1, 2005) was an architect and painter from the Dominican Republic.
Miguel Vila Luna was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic on July 7, 1943.
His parents were Ramón Vila Piola (who led a revolt against dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina alongside Juan Isidro Jimenes Grullón in 1934) and Ana Gregoria Luna.
Vila was an individual linked to design, to aspects of decorative comfort, to pictorial work, but from the training of architecture and above all, in cultivated sensitivity that formed in the roots of his family life.
After his early training in painting with Rafael Arzeno, he took up an artistic career at an art course at the University of Puerto Rico and graduated as an architect at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.
He also attended the American University and the École Américaine des Beaux-Arts in the Palais de Fontainebleau in France.
He died in April 1, 2005 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.