Jesús Eduardo Amaral

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(1927 – September 9, 2020) is a Puerto Rican

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and educator. As partner in the firm Amaral y Morales, he produced some of Puerto Rico's most notable modern architecture primarily from 1950 to 1970. He is the founder and first head of the School of Architecture of the

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(1966–1969). Amaral was born in 1927 in Humacao, Puerto Rico. He studied

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(1948) and

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(1951) at

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in Ithaca, NY. With architect Efrer Morales (1928–1992) he formed Amaral y Morales (1956–1969), one of Puerto Rico's pioneering modern firms. In 1966 he founded the School of Architecture of the University of Puerto Rico, the island's first architecture school. He was both President of Puerto Rico's Institute of Architects, as well as President of the Puerto Rico Chapter of the

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. He was elevated to the American Institute of Architects' College of Fellows in 1978. He was the recipient of the Henry Klumb Award in 1985. In 2000 he was given a Honoris Causa Doctorate by the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. Some of his most significant buildings include the Condominio Universitario, Condominio Costa Azul, the Hotel Delicias, and the School of Law at the Interamerican University in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 2011, the Colegio de Arquitectos y Arquitectos Paisajistas de Puerto Rico published the monographic book "Jesús Eduardo Amaral, Arquitecto" written by Andrés Mignucci

. Jesús Eduardo Amaral died on September 9, 2020, in

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1927 births 2020 deaths Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning alumni People from Humacao, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican architects 20th-century Puerto Rican engineers 20th-century American engineers Urban designers {{US-architect-stub