Jorge González Reyna
Jorge González Reyna (born October 14, 1920 in Saltillo , † June 4, 1969 in Monterrey ) was a Mexican architect .
biography
As a child, González Reyna first attended the Colegio Patricio Saenz of the Marist Fathers in Mexico City . He then moved to the Colegio Francés Morelos , also a denominational school of the Marist Fathers. After President Lázaro Cárdenas closed all denominational schools by decree in 1935, his family sent the González to Brownsville, Texas , to attend the local Marist School. After graduating from high school , González received a scholarship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied architecture as a student of Hugo Leipziger-Pearce . After completing his architecture studies in Texas, Walter Gropius called him to Harvard University , where González Reyna worked in his office for a year and a half and completed his thesis in 1942.
González Reyna devoted himself mainly to industrial architecture and planned numerous factory and production sites as well as public administration buildings throughout Mexico and America. Well-known buildings are: the Hylsa de Mexico plant in Jojutla , Puebla, the Edificio Medico-Dental and the Lincoln plant in Mexico City and the “Crown Cork” building in São Paulo, Brazil . One of his most famous buildings is the “Pabellón de los Rayos Cósmicos” (“Pavilion of Cosmic Rays”) built in the early 1950s together with Félix Candela in the university town of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City .
González Reyna, who began teaching as a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura (ENA) at the age of 28 , became director of the ENA in 1962 at the age of 42, which is still the most important university for architecture in Latin America. A teaching building at UNAM now bears his name.
Gonzalez Reyna was killed in a plane crash in 1969 when he was flying to Monterrey to visit the "Hylsa" plant he had planned.
literature
- Eduardo Langagne Arquitectos de la Ciudad de México 1950-2000
- Jorge Ferrer Vega Jorge Gonzalez Reyna: Vida Y Obra / Life and Works (Talleres / Workshops) , 2004
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | González Reyna, Jorge |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | mexican architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saltillo |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th June 1969 |
| Place of death | Monterrey |