Augusto Pérez Palacios (1909 – August 9, 2002) was a Mexican architect and teacher. He designed various public buildings, most notably the

Estadio Olímpico Universitario University Olympic Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium located inside Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City. It was built in 1952 and at that time was the largest stadium in Mexico. This stadium has a capacity ...

of the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

(UNAM), together with Raúl Salinas Moro and Jorge Bravo Jiménez.

Biography

In 1933, Pérez Palacios graduated from the School of Architecture, UNAM in Mexico City. His architectural work often featured collaboration between the building structure and the fine arts, such as being covered with mosaics or reliefs. Notable work by Pérez Palacios included supervising the Hotel del Prado (1939; destroyed 1985) in Mexico City; the design of the Fibracel Factory (1948), in

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; and the design of the

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complex (1953; with Raúl Cacho; partly destroyed 1985), in Mexico City. He was a professor of architecture in the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, from 1934 to 1938; and a professor at the

, from 1939 until the 1950s.

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1909 births 2002 deaths Academic staff of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Mexican architects Modernist architects from Mexico National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni {{Mexico-architect-stub