Carlos Flores Marini

Carlos Flores Marini (born May 28, 1937 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican architect and monument conservator.

biography

Flores studied 1956-1960 Architecture at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), further from 1956 to 1960 archeology at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología and History (INAH), and from 1957 to 1961 History at the UNAM Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities .

He then traveled to Europe and restored the La Sapienza University in Rome in Italy from 1961 to 1962 . In the following years he was director of colonial monuments at INAH until 1966 and during this time he was also co-author of the Venice Monument Protection Charter (1964). From 1967 until 1969 he worked at the Spanish Ministry of Information and Tourism in Madrid . Also from 1967 to 1972 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). From 1975 to 1980 he was a member of the Council for Monuments in Mexico and from 1977 to 1981 he headed the Department of Architecture at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA). At INBA he published the journal for the protection of art monuments and the yearbook of Mexican architecture. From 1983 to 1985 he was director of the Historical Center ( Centro Histórico ) of Mexico City. He was a founding member of the Mexican section of ICOMOS and there from 1991 to 1997 President and founder of the trade journal Conservación ( German : Conservation ) of ICOMOS. He was also President of the Great Caribbean Organization for Monuments and Memorials CARIMOS from 1995 to 2005 . He worked on over 100 restoration projects, including in Italy, Spain, Russia, Panama, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. In several Latin American countries he worked as a monument conservation consultant. He has received national and international awards for his work, including the Mexican National Prize for Architecture in 1996.

As a professor he taught architectural history from 1961 to 1988 at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the UNAM, from 1982 to 1988 Pre-Hispanic architecture at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología of the INAH and then from 1983 to 1991 restoration and museography at the Escuela de Restauración y Museografía of the INAH in Churubusco , Distrito Federal de México. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville from 1982 to 1994 .

Fuentes has published more than ten specialist books, has been a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA) since 1999 and emeritus member of the Academia Nacional de Arquitectura .

Web links

• Carlos Flores Marini. In: arch INFORM .
• Literature by and about Carlos Flores Marini in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

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1. ↑ Carlos Flores Marini ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (span.). Note: there accidentally referred to as Fuertes Marini in the heading .  
2. ^ Peter Krieger: Carlos Flores Marini , General Artist Lexicon, KG Saur Verlag.