Mexican Architecture: The Work of Abraham Zabludovsky and Teodoro Gonzalez De Leon

About this book

Abraham Zabludovsky (19242003) was a Mexican architect who 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. In 1968 Zabludovsky began working in collaboration with Teodoro Gonzlez de Len (1926-2016) 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 Delegacin Cuauhtmoc (19723) the headquarters of INFONAVIT (Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores completed 1975) and the new building for the Colegio de Mxico all in Mexico City.