Rodolfo Barragán Schwarz (1931 12 November 2017) was a Mexican architect. Barragán studied at the

ITESM Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM; ), also known as Technological Institute of Monterrey () or just Tec, is aresearch university based in Monterrey, Mexico, which has grown to include 35 campuses located across 25 cit ...

, and later under Paul Rudolph at

Yale School of Architecture The Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) is one of the constituent professional schools of Yale University. The School awards the degrees of Master of Architecture I (M.Arch I), Master of Architecture II (M.Arch II), Master of Environmental Desi ...

. Afterwards he worked in Italy with

Giovanni Michelucci Giovanni Michelucci (2 January 1891 – 31 December 1990) was an Italian architect, urban planner and designer. He had the good fortune to live a long life almost entirely within the span of the twentieth century, giving us a valuable witness th ...

. Amongst others, he taught at the

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a 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 countries. It also has 34 ...

from 1961 to 1968, and at the

Universidad Iberoamericana The Ibero-American University (), also referred to by its acronym ''UIA'' but commonly known as ''Ibero'' or ''La Ibero'', is a private, Catholic, Mexican higher education institution, sponsored by the Mexican province of the Society of Jesus ( ...

from 1962 to 1974, where he was also director of the department of architecture 1968 to 1974. He was the father of the current Dean of the School of Architecture at

, Dr. Rodolfo Barragán Delgado. He died at the age of 86 in his hometown of

Monterrey Monterrey (, , abbreviated as MtY) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León. It is the ninth-largest city and the second largest metropolitan area, after Greater Mexico City. Located at the foothills of th ...

Nuevo León Nuevo León, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León, is a Administrative divisions of Mexico, state in northeastern Mexico. The state borders the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí, San Luis ...

Awards

* Premio Gallo, Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Design,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barragan Schwarz, Rodolfo Architects from Monterrey Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Academic staff of Universidad Iberoamericana Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni Yale School of Architecture alumni 1931 births 2017 deaths