Abraham Zabludovsky (born Abraham Zabludowski Kraveski; June 14, 1924 – April 10, 2003) was a Mexican

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. He was the brother of the well known journalist

Jacobo Zabludovsky Jacobo Zabludovsky Kraveski (May 24, 1928 – July 2, 2015) was a Mexican journalist. He was the first anchorman in Mexican television and his TV news program, ''24 Horas'' (''24 Hours'') was for decades regarded as the most important in the cou ...

. Abraham Zabludovsky was born in

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. He studied at the

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, 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 the Centro Cívico Cinco de Mayo (1962),

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, on which he collaborated with

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. In 1968 Zabludovsky began working in collaboration with

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, 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 Delegación Cuauhtémoc (1972–3; with Jaime Ortiz Monasterio (b 1928) and Luis Antonio Zapiain (b 1942)), the headquarters of INFONAVIT (Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores, completed 1975) and the new building for the Colegio 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),

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, a construction with sculptural aspects that manages faithfully to fulfil the need for both theatricality and

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. He also designed two multipurpose auditoriums in

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and

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(1990), two theatres in

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, and

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(1991), and a convention centre in

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on April 10, 2003, aged 78.

Awards

* Professor Emeritus of the Mexican National Academy of Architecture * Honorary member of The American Institute of Architects * Professor Emeritus of the

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in Sofia, Bulgaria * Gold Medal at the International Architecture Biennial in Sofia, Bulgaria * Latin American Grand Prix at the Buenos Aires Biennial * Honorary mention at the Third International Architecture Biennial in Brazil * VITRUVIO Award for outstanding achievements in the creation and fomenting of culture

References

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