Agustín Hernández Navarro

Agustín Hernández Navarro (born February 29, 1924 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican architect and sculptor .

biography

Hernández studied at the National School of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and received his diploma in 1954. He then designed numerous residential and office buildings and lectured at UNAM until 1968. In 1968 he founded the Escuela de Ballet Folklórico for sculptural architecture and went on some study trips. In 1970 he designed the Mexican pavilion in Osaka . His architecture training workshop, which was run from 1972 to 1975, was very well known. Between 1975 and 1980 he designed the Mexican military college, the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa , the Heroico Colegio Militar for the architectural firm Manuel González Rul . His buildings also include the meditation center completed in Cuernavaca in 1984 , the "Hernández House" from 1990 in his hometown and the 1995 Casa en el Aire . The current focus of his work is on sculpture and the design of furnishings.

He was a professor at the teaching workshops I and II of the Universidad Anáhuac and professor at the UNAM. Hernández has been a "numbered member" (Miembro de Número) of the Academia de Artes , a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA) and the International Academy of Architecture (IAA) since 1991 .

Model of the architect's studio and apartment, 'Praxis', in Mexico City.

New seat for the Senate of the Republic
(project 2003)

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

• Pratt Institute , New York City
• International building exhibition, Berlin
• Architecture Biennale 1989, Buenos Aires
• Chicago Athenaeum , Chicago
• Triennial for Architecture 1991, Belgrade

Awards

• First prize “Anual Jardín de la Paz”, Mexico
• First prize from the Asociación de Industriales del Estado de México
• First Prize for the Mexican Pavilion, Expo 1970, Osaka, Japan
• Medal, III. Biennal for Architecture, Sofia
• Medal, Architecture Biennale 1989, Buenos Aires
• Gold medal, II Biennale of Mexico
• First Prize, PCI 1997, United States
• First Prize, Internacional Lighting Design and Application Center 1997, Endoven
• First Prize, Urban Land Institute 1998, United States 1998
• Special Award, DuPont 1998, United States
• First prize, Lieberman 1998, for the best work
• National Prize for Architecture 1999
• National Prize for Science and the Arts 2004

Web links

• Agustín Hernández Navarro. In: arch INFORM .
• Literature by and about Agustín Hernández Navarro in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

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1. ^ Academia de Artes: Arquitectura - Agustín Hernández
2. ↑ Agustín Hernández ( Memento of June 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), exhibition directory Espacios de Creación , 2004.
3. ↑ International Academy of Architecture: Agustín Hernández Navarro ( Memento of the original of July 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.