Rodolfo Barragán Schwarz (1931 12 November 2017) was a Mexican architect. Barragán studied at the

ITESM Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and coeducational private university based in ...

, and later under Paul Rudolph at

Yale School of Architecture The Yale School of Architecture (YSOA) is one of the constituent professional schools of Yale University, and is generally considered to be one of the best architecture schools in the United States. The School awards the degrees of Master of Arc ...

. Afterwards he worked in Italy with

Giovanni Michelucci Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect, urban planner and designer, was born in Pistoia, Tuscany, on 2 January 1891 and died on the night of 31 December 1990, two days before his 100th birthday, at his studio-home in Fiesole, in Florence's hills ...

. Amongst others, he taught at the

UNAM 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 bigge ...

from 1961 to 1968, and at the

Universidad Iberoamericana The Ibero-American University ( es, Universidad Iberoamericana), also referred to by its acronym ''UIA'' but commonly known as ''Ibero'' or ''La Ibero'') is a private, Catholic, Mexican higher education institution, sponsored by the Mexican provi ...

from 1962 to 1974, where he was also director of the department of architecture 1968 to 1974. He was the father of the current Dean of the School of Architecture at

, Dr. Rodolfo Barragán Delgado. He died at the age of 86 in his hometown of Monterrey, Nuevo León.

Awards

* Premio Gallo, Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Design,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barragan Schwarz, Rodolfo Architects from Monterrey Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Academic staff of Universidad Iberoamericana Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni Yale School of Architecture alumni 1931 births 2017 deaths