Jaime Ortiz Monasterio
Jaime Alfonso Ortiz Monasterio y de Garay (born September 28, 1928 in Mexico City , † November 21, 2001 ) was a Mexican architect.
biography
Ortiz Monasterio studied from 1946 to 1950 Architecture at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received his doctorate in 1957 with honors. In his dissertation on the subject of “Fertilizer factories in Monclova , Coahuila - the architect of the industrial problem”, he already dealt with the subject of industrial architecture, which decisively shaped his later career as an architect. He also designed residential and commercial buildings and dealt with restoration and religious architecture.
Among his most famous works are the so-called "umbrellas", wooden structures with a roof construction technique that was developed by Federico Martínez de Hoyos in the second half of the century . His “Yazbek House” in Valle de Bravo , completed in 1985, was also mentioned several times in publications on 20th century Mexican architecture .
As a young academic he was assistant professor to Jorge González Reina at the national architecture school of the UNAM and later also became a professor there. Here, alongside Carlos Mijares Bracho , he had a similar influence on the architecture of the 20th century. He was considered an admirer of Van der Rohe's architecture .
Awards
- 1996: Prize of the International Association of Architects (together with Sergio Zaldívar and Lucía del Pilar Grajales )
- 1999: National Prize for Architecture and Design, Mexico
Web links
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- ^ Instituto Nacionales de Bellas Artes ( CONACULTA ): Arquitectura-Contrastes - Creación y enseñanza. Dos arquitectos universitarios: Ortiz Monasterio y Mijares Bracho. ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2007 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ortiz Monasterio, Jaime |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ortiz Monasterio y de Garay, Jaime Alfonso (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | mexican architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 2001 |