Teodoro González de León is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Teodoro González de León as Mexican architect (1926-2015).
Teodoro González de León was born at Mexico City in 1926. His recorded nationality is Mexico. He trained at National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect, painter and university teacher.
His best-known building is Auditorio Nacional. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: National Prize for Arts and Sciences and Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
That the work was built in Mexico shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Teodoro González de León died in 2016, aged 90. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Auditorio Nacional
- National Prize for Arts and Sciences
- Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Trained at National Autonomous University of Mexico
