Sara Topelson de Grinberg
Sara Topelson de Grinberg (* probably in early 1945 in Poland) is a Mexican architect.
Biography
Born in Poland Topelson de Grinberg is the daughter of a Russian father and a Polish mother, and came with her family on the run from the Nazis at the age of three months to Mexico. In Mexico City, she studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM), Theory of Architecture at the Instituto Nacional Politécnico and art history at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes ( INBA ).
Together with her husband José Grinberg, she founded the architectural firm Grinberg & Topelson Arquitectos and planned with him numerous residential, educational, industrial and commercial facilities, as well as cultural and leisure facilities.
She worked as a professor at the School of Architecture of the Universidad Anáhuac for the history and the training workshop of urban planning and architecture has been recognized by the University in 1972 as " Outstanding academic " ( " Excelencia Académica "). As a professor she is also active in the International Academy of Architecture (IAA ).
For international relations affairs of the Federation of National Colleges of Architects of the Republic of Mexico ( FNCARM ) she has worked since 1982 and belonged since 1990 to the Advisory Board of the International Union of Architects (UIA ), where they as 1993 Vice President and 1996-1999 successor of the Spaniard Jaime Duró Pifarré President of the UIA and the same first female holder of the office was.
In May 1998, she was awarded and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture of the title Knight of the Ordre des Arts.
She was Director of Architecture and preservation of the estate treasures of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Director of Urban Development of the " Miguel Hidalgo " delegation as well as the main coordinator of the Research and Documentation Centre in the house. President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa she rose on January 5, 2007 in the Office of the Under Secretary of Urban Development and Territorial Planning in Sekratariat for Social Development at the side of the Mexican Minister for Beatriz Zavala Peniche Solzialentwicklung.
She is senior fellow of the Academia Nacional de Arquitectura (ANA) and the Academia Mexicana de Arquitectura (AMA ), an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, Member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada ( RAIC ), the Asociación Nicaragüense de Ingenieros y Arquitectos, the Colegio de Arquitectos de Venezuela, the Royal Australian Institute of Architects ( RAIA ), the Japan Institute of Architects (JIA ), and since 2002 honorary Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and an honorary member of the Consejo Superior de los Colegio de Arquitectos de España.