Juan José Díaz Infante Núñez

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Juan José Díaz Infante Núñez (born June 24, 1936 in Mexico City ; † June 12, 2012 ibid ) was a Mexican architect and industrial designer. He was the main founder of the Universidad La Salle , founder and director of the architecture school of the Universidad Anáhuac , founding member of the Mexican architecture academy Academia Mexicana de Arquitectura and the Mexican industrial designers association ( Asociación de Diseñadores Industriales ).

As an architect, he was a scientific advisor in the College of Architects of Mexico City ( Colegio de Arquitectos de la Ciudad de México-CAM ) and in the Society of Mexican Architects ( Sociedad de Arquitectos de México -SAM ). In addition to several urban planning projects , he primarily planned business centers, bus stations, hotels, cinemas, school buildings, sports facilities, financial and healthcare facilities, industrial, administrative and office buildings, mainly in Mexico, but also in other countries.

As an industrial designer, he was also a scientific consultant in the Asociación de Industriales del Plástico (ANIPAC), assessor of the Instituto Mexicano del Plástico Industrial and a member of the American Society of Plastics Engineers in Pittsburgh .

Díaz Infante has taught design and visual education at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Universidad Anáhuac (UA). He has given seminars at various academic professional associations and at numerous national universities.

At the Cultural Olympiad during the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico, he was the official Mexican representative at the meeting of the Jóvenes Arquitectos ( German : Young Architects ).

Group and solo exhibitions

  • 1964: Mexican pavilion at the World's Fair in New York
  • 1966:
    • Arquitectura de Vanguardia en México in the Palacio de Bellas Artes , Mexico City
    • Arquitectura Actual en América Madrid, Spain
  • 1967: Del Dolmen a la Kalikosmia in the Museo de Arte Moderno , Mexico City
  • 1969: El objeto Cotidiano in the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1969
  • 1970:
    • Diseño Actual en México in the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
    • Casa Prefrabricada Instituto Politécnico Nacional , Mexico City
    • Home Builders , Washington, DC

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juan José Díaz Infante Núñez at diazinfante.com.mx, accessed September 12, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Díaz Infante Núñez, Juan José
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican architect and industrial designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 2012
Place of death Mexico city