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Born in Mexico City, studied History of Art at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City (B.A. 1969), and M.A. at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, 1976-88; is presently working on her doctoral thesis. Editor of Arquitectura/México, 1976-80. Researcher of the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of the UNAM since 1982, involved in many aspects of architectural criticism, being a co-founder and Director of the Comité International des Critiques d’Architecture (CICA). Honorary Academician of the Sociedad de Arquitectos Mexicanos, 1988, Member of the Academia de Artes, 1991, and of the ICOMOS Mexicano, 1993, and founding Member of DOCOMOMO-México, 2003. Has given courses and lectures at Universities, in Mexico and abroad, and she is contributor to numerous architectural journals.
Main publications
Agustín Hernández: Arquitectura y Pensamiento, UNAM, Mexico, 1982. Reprint, 1988.
Arquitectos contemporáneos de México, Trillas, Mexico,1989. Reprints 1990 and 1996.
Ricardo Legorreta, Tradición y Modernidad, UNAM, Mexico, 1989.
Guía de Arquitectura contemporánea de la Ciudad de México, Banamex, Mexico, 1993. In collaboration with Carlos Tejeda. Reprint INBA, 2002.
Crónicas de la Academia Nacional de Arquitectura, I and II, UAM, Mexico, 1993 and 1996.
Teodoro González de León, la voluntad del Creador, Escala-Somosur, Bogota, 1994.
Luis Barragán, búsqueda y creatividad, UNAM, México, 1996; and Testo & Imagine, Milan, 1997.
Mario Pani, una arquitectura para la ciudad, CNCA, Mexico, 2000.
Una ciudad imaginaria. Fotografías de arquitectura de los siglos XIX y XX, de Luis Márquez, UNAM-INBA, Mexico, 2000. In collaboration with Lourdes Cruz.
Enrique del Moral.Vida y obra, UNAM, Mexico, 2004.
Writings available on CICArchitecture
Regionalismo ayer y hoy
Abraham Zabludovsky y las artes escénicas
Joseph Rykwert: La idea de ciudad (Review)
Joseph Rykwert: The dancing column. On order in architecture (Review)
Pierre Vago: una vida intensa
Bruno Zevi
CICA – Une petite histoire
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