Pedro Díaz (architect)

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Pedro Moctezuma Díaz Infante (born August 24, 1923 in San Luis Potosí , † October 2, 2011 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican architect .

Díaz studied from 1939 to 1943 at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, which was part of the University of Mexico , the first school of architecture in South America. After graduating, his first buildings were residential and industrial buildings. The government palace in Baja California Sur , the School of Accounting and Management of the UNAM , the building of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) , numerous buildings for Petroleos Mexicanos ( PEMEX ) and the central hospital in Azcapotzalco were the first exclamation marks of his work.

Together with Ortiz Monasterio and Fernando Pineda he built the international airport of Acapulco . With Enrique Garcia Formenti , Alberto Gonzalez Pozo and Jaime Menclares , he set up the city's convention center and in 1971 directed the plan for the further urban planning of Acapulco.

From 1979 to 1982 he built the Torre Ejecutiva Pemex , the tallest building in Mexico at the time. In the 1990s he helped restore the Temple of San Hipolito , the Temple of Regina Coelli and the Metropolitan Cathedral.

Awards

  • 1995 National Award for Architecture

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pedro Moctezuma Díaz Infante (b. 24 Aug 1923). Retrieved February 1, 2012 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ En el adiós a Granados Chapa. Retrieved February 1, 2012 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Pedro Moctezuma Diaz Infante. Retrieved February 1, 2012 .
  4. ^ In Memoriam Arquitecto Pedro Moctezuma Díaz Infante (1923-2011). Retrieved February 1, 2012 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Díaz, Pedro (architect)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Díaz Infante, Pedro Moctezuma (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH San Luis Potosí
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 2011
Place of death Mexico City