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Abraham Zabludovsky (born Abraham Zabludowski Kraveski; June 14, 1924 – April 10, 2003) was a Mexican
architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
. He was the brother of the well known journalist
Jacobo Zabludovsky
Jacobo Zabludovsky Kraveski (May 24, 1928 – July 2, 2015) was a Mexican journalist. He was the first anchorman in Mexican television and his TV news program, ''24 Horas'' (''24 Hours'') was for decades regarded as the most important in the cou ...
.
Abraham Zabludovsky was born in
Białystok,
Poland
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. He studied at the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...
, graduating in 1949. In his early years he produced a large number of outstanding residential buildings and offices in Mexico City, making rigorous use of the International style and demonstrating an impeccable handling of contemporary design, techniques and materials. Also notable from this period was the
Centro Cívico Cinco de Mayo (1962),
Puebla, on which he collaborated with
Guillermo Rossell.
In 1968 Zabludovsky began working in collaboration with
Teodoro González de León
Teodoro González de León (May 29, 1926 – September 16, 2016) was a Mexican architect.
Biography
González de León studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) from 1942 to 19 ...
, although the two architects continued to work on some projects individually and retained their separate stylistic identities. Their collaborative work was remarkable for its quality and maturity, establishing functional and formal solutions that were later widely imitated. Clear examples of their characteristic proposals for constructions of massive, linear volume are the
Delegación Cuauhtémoc (1972–3; with
Jaime Ortiz Monasterio (b 1928) and
Luis Antonio Zapiain (b 1942)), the
headquarters of
INFONAVIT
The Institute of the National Housing Fund for Workers (Spanish: ''Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores''; ''INFONAVIT'') is the Mexican federal institute for worker's housing, founded in 1972, and located at Barranca ...
(Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores, completed 1975) and the new building for the
Colegio de México (1974–5; see MEXICO, fig. 7), all in Mexico City.
Zabludovsky also carried out a number of works individually in the same style. Outstanding among these was the
Centro Cultural Emilio O. Rabasa (1983),
Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Tuxtla Gutiérrez (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Mexican southeastern state of Chiapas. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name, the most developed and populated in the state. A busy government, commercial and servic ...
,
Chiapas, a construction with sculptural aspects that manages faithfully to fulfil the need for both theatricality and
diffusion
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. He also designed two multipurpose auditoriums in
Celaya
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and
Dolores Hidalgo
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,
Guanajuato (1990), two theatres in
Guanajuato, Guanajuato
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, and
Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
(''Virtue in the Water, Fidelity in the Heart'')
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(1991), and a convention centre in
Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Tuxtla Gutiérrez (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Mexican southeastern state of Chiapas. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name, the most developed and populated in the state. A busy government, commercial and servic ...
,
Chiapas (1994).
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He died of a heart attack in
Mexico City
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on April 10, 2003, aged 78.
Awards
* Professor Emeritus of the Mexican National Academy of Architecture
* Honorary member of The American Institute of Architects
* Professor Emeritus of the
International Academy of Architecture
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in Sofia, Bulgaria
* Gold Medal at the International Architecture Biennial in Sofia, Bulgaria
* Latin American Grand Prix at the Buenos Aires Biennial
* Honorary mention at the Third International Architecture Biennial in Brazil
* VITRUVIO Award for outstanding achievements in the creation and fomenting of culture
References
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Modernist architects from Mexico
1924 births
2003 deaths
Architects from Mexico City
Architecture firms of Mexico
Jewish architects
Mexican Jews
Mexican people of Polish-Jewish descent
Polish emigrants to Mexico
People from Białystok
National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
20th-century Polish architects
20th-century Mexican architects
21st-century Mexican architects