José Antonio Attolini Lack (b. Ciudad Juárez

Ciudad Juárez

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, April 24, 1931) is a Mexican

Mexico

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 architect.

Biography

Attolini graduated at the Faculty of Architecture

Faculty of Architecture (UNAM)

The Faculty of Architecture at UNAM is one of the leading schools of architecture and design in Mexico. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urbanism and Industrial Design.-History:...

 of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City

Mexico City

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 in December 1955. He has designed several recognized commercial and religious buildings, as well as accommodation buildings. The first buildings he realized predominantly in Mexico City, in León

León, Guanajuato

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 and in Cuernavaca

Cuernavaca

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. Since 1955 he has been professor of architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM. After 1970 he also lectured at the Universidad La Salle

Universidad La Salle

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 and later also at the Universidad Anáhuac del Sur

Universidad Anáhuac del Sur

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. He is emeritus member of the Academia Mexicana de Arquitectura

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In 1992 he was awarded the Gold medal in the II Biennale of Architecture and in 2002 he was honored with the National Prize of Architecture in Mexico.

Awards

• 1961: Premio Casa-habitación
• 1992: Gold medal, II biennale of architecture
• 2002, 2008: National prize of architecture (awarded twice)