Jaime Ortiz Lajous
Jaime Luis Ortiz Lajous (born December 1, 1932 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican architect .
biography
Ortiz studied architecture at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He then continued his education at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the Faculty of Architecture at La Sapienza University in Rome , specializing in the restoration of monuments . He restored numerous monumental and historical buildings at home and abroad, including the Casa de los Azulejos, the former Ex Convento del Carmen monastery in the Desierto de los Leones National Park, and carried out the first extensive restoration of the Mexico City Cathedral .
Ortiz was also a professor of design at the university (now faculty) for architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, teaching according to the guidelines of the Ulm School of Design .
He was sub-director in the administrative committee of the school planning project in the Mexican government program, for 18 years director for the restoration of Mexican state monuments and managing director for design in the second stage of the housing program of the Federal District of México . He is Vice President of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and advisor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has authored over ten specialist books on Mexican architecture. Ortiz has been a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA) since 2001 .
Awards
- 1981: Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 1982: “ Carlos Lazo Barreiro ” architecture prize
- 1982: 5th numbered prize from the Academia Nacional de Arquitectura , Mexico
Web links
- Works by and about Jaime Ortiz Lajous in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Ortiz Lajous: sin pacto político, inútil tratar de salvar el Centro Histórico (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jaime Ortiz Lajous ( Memento of June 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), exhibition directory Espacios de Creación , 2004. (Spanish)
- ↑ Jesús de León: La Arquitectura colonial mexicana está basada en la divina Proporción , Conaculta (Spanish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ortiz Lajous, Jaime |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ortiz Lajous, Jaime Luis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | mexican architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |