José Antonio Attolini Lack (24 April 1931 – 28 February 2012)
Antonio Attolini Lack (1931-2012)
; retrieved, 11 August 2012 was a Mexican architect
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Biography
Attolini graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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(UNAM) in Mexico City
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in December 1955. He has designed several recognized commercial and religious buildings, as well as accommodation buildings. The first buildings he realized predominantly in Mexico City, in León and in Cuernavaca
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. Since 1955 he has been professor of architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM. After 1970 he also lectured at the Universidad La Salle
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and later also at the Universidad Anáhuac del Sur
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. He is emeritus member of the Academia Mexicana de Arquitectura
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Presidents
* Joaquin Alvarez Ordóñez
* Jesús Agu ...
.[Enrique Chao]
''El todo y la parte: juego de la armonía.''
In 1992 he was awarded the gold medal in the II Biennale of Architecture and in 2002 he was honored with the National Prize of Architecture in Mexico.
Awards
* 1961: Premio Casa-habitación
* 1992: Gold medal, II biennale
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of architecture
* 2002, 2008: National prize of architecture (awarded twice)
See also
* Mexican people of Italian descent
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References
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1931 births
2012 deaths
Mexican architects
Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
People from Ciudad Juárez
Mexican people of Italian descent