Teodoro González de León
Teodoro González de León ( * May 29, 1926 in Mexico City) is a Mexican architect.
Biography
Gonzales de Leon studied from 1942 to 1947 at the National School of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and then worked in the years 1948 and 1949 for 18 months on a scholarship from the French government in France with Le Corbusier. During this time he was involved in the planning of a residential complex in Marseille and a factory in Saint Dié.
Between 1955 and 1965 he developed an urban design series and did some construction plans. In 1969, he drew his inspiration in the works of Abraham Zabludovsky. Between 1974 and 1982, significant public buildings, such as the Delegación Cuauhtémoc, El Colegio de México ( COLMEX ) Building, the headquarters of the Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para Universidad Pedagógica developed in cooperation with Zabludovsky los Trabajadores ( INFONAVIT ) Nacional and the Museo Rufino Tamayo. In the years of 1984 and 1987 came from his pen striking buildings in Villahermosa, among other things, the administrative center, which he designed in collaboration with architect J. Francisco Serrano Cacho, with whom he later also the Mexican Embassy in Berlin -Tiergarten planned (2000 - 2001) ..
Professor González de León since 1984 " numbered Member" ( Miembro de Número ) Academia de Artes, since 1988 a member of the Colegio de México and an honorary member of the International Academy of Architecture (IAA ) and Emeritus Academician of the Academia Nacional de Arquitectura. The UNAM awarded him an honorary doctorate.