- Abraham Zabludovsky (architect)
Abraham Zabludovsky (born Abraham Zabludowski Kraves) (
June 14 ,1924 inBialystok ,Polonia -April 10 ,2003 inMexico City ) was a Mexicanarchitect . He was the brother of the well-known journalistJacobo Zabludovsky .Abraham Zabludovsky studied at the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , graduating in 1949. In his early years he 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. Also notable from this period was theCentro Cívico Cinco de Mayo (1962),Puebla , on which he collaborated withGuillermo Rossell .In 1968 Zabludovsky began working in collaboration with
Teodoro González de León , 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 theDelegación Cuauhtémoc (1972–3; withJaime Ortiz Monasterio (b 1928) andLuis Antonio Zapiain (b 1942)), theheadquarters ofINFONAVIT (Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores, completed 1975) and the new building for theColegio de México (1974–5; see MEXICO, fig. 7), all in Mexico City.Zabludovsky also carried out a number of works individually in the same style. Outstanding among these was the
Centro Cultural Emilio O. Rabasa (1983),Tuxtla Gutiérrez ,Chiapas , a construction with sculptural aspects that manages faithfully to fulfil the need for both theatricality anddiffusion . He also designed two multipurpose auditoriums inCelaya andDolores Hidalgo ,Guanajuato (1990), two theatres inGuanajuato, Guanajuato , andAguascalientes, Aguascalientes (1991), and a convention centre inTuxtla Gutiérrez ,Chiapas (1994).External links
* [http://www.archzabludovsky.com.mx/ Official site]
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