Teodoro González de León

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Teodoro González de León in 2016.

Teodoro González de León (born May 29, 1926 in Mexico City ; † September 16, 2016 there ) was a Mexican architect .

Life

National Auditorium, Mexico City (with Zabludovsky)
COLMEX, Mexico City

Gonzales de León studied from 1942 to 1947 at the National School of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , and then worked in 1948 and 1949 for 18 months as a scholarship holder of the French government in France at Le Corbusier . During this time he was involved in the planning of a residential complex in Marseille and a factory in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges .

From 1955 to 1965 he worked out a series of urban planning designs and carried out some building plans. From 1969 he was inspired by the work of Abraham Zabludovsky . Between 1974 and 1982, in cooperation with Zabludovsky, important public buildings such as the Delegación Cuauhtémoc , the Colegio de México (COLMEX) building, the headquarters of the Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores (INFONAVIT), the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional were built and the Museo Rufino Tamayo . From 1984 to 1987 he designed striking buildings in Villahermosa , including the administrative center, which he designed together with his colleague J. Francisco Serrano Cacho , with whom he later also planned the Mexican embassy in Berlin-Tiergarten (2000-2001).

González de León was a member (Miembro de Número) of the Academia de Artes since 1984, a member of the Colegio de México since 1988 and an honorary member of the International Academy of Architecture (IAA) and emeritus member of the Academia Nacional de Arquitectura . The UNAM awarded him an honorary doctorate.

honors and awards

  • 1982: National Art Prize (Mexico)
  • 1989: Grand Latin American Prize at the Biennale for Architecture, Buenos Aires
  • 1989 and 1994: IAA Grand Prix at the Biennale in Sofia, Bulgaria
  • International honorary mention at the IX. Pan American Architecture Biennial, Quito, Ecuador
  • 1994: Grand Prize at the II International Biennale for Architecture in Brazil
  • 1998: Grand Prize Gold Medal at the 5th Mexican Biennale for Architecture

Web links

Commons : Teodoro González de León  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Marcial Pérez: Muere Teodoro González de León, el abanderado de la arquitectura mexicana . elpais.com , September 16, 2016, accessed September 16, 2016 (Spanish).
  2. ^ Teodoro González de León. Archived from the original on May 23, 2006 ; Retrieved September 16, 2016 (Spanish).
  3. ^ Teodoro González de León. In: arch INFORM .
  4. ^ Arquitectura - Teodoro González de León. Academia de Artes, archived from the original on April 21, 2002 ; Retrieved September 16, 2016 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon. International Academy of Architecture, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on September 16, 2016 (English).
personal data
SURNAME González de León, Teodoro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH 16th September 2016
Place of death Mexico city