Biography

Casillas studied the Escuela de Arquitectura de Guadalajara

Guadalajara, Jalisco

Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...

 from 1952 to 1955, and afterwards at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City until 1956. From 1957 to 1961 he visited the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm, Germany, and participated meanwhile in urban planning

Urban planning

Urban planning incorporates areas such as economics, design, ecology, sociology, geography, law, political science, and statistics to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities....

 projects for Isfahan in 1958, as well as he practiced in the architecture bureau Mangiarotti e Morazitti, Milano, in 1959. Back in Mexico, he worked together with Augusto H. Álvarez

Augusto H. Álvarez

Augusto Harold Álvarez García was a Mexican architect.- Biography :...

 from 1962 to 1963, then together with Luis Barragán

Luis Barragán

Luis Barragán Morfin was a Mexican architect. He was self-trained.-Early life:Educated as an engineer, he graduated from the Escuela Libre de Ingenieros in Guadalajara in 1923 and was self-trained as an architect.After graduation, he travelled through Spain, France , and...

 from 1964 to 1968, and after 1969 he was self-employed. His first building in Mexico was the Galería de Arte Mexicano

Galería de Arte Mexicano

The Galería de Arte Mexicano was founded by Carolina and Inés Amor at march 7, in Mexico City and has been the first gallery of Mexican art. The gallery building was the first building in Mexico of Andrés Casillas de Alba....

, which he built during his cooperation with Álvarez. Casillas has been member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte

Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte

The Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte is a Mexican art association of the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, that was founded per presidential decree of September 3, 1993. Aim is the advancement and acceptance of creative activities as an essential part of national identity and...

 (SNCA) since 1994. He was multiple awarded, amongst others with the annual award of Jalisco

Jalisco

Jalisco officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and divided in 125 municipalities and its capital city is Guadalajara.It is one of the more important states...

's architects in 1994.

Selected works

• "Andrés Casillas" house
• Club Náutico Los Amates, Cuernavaca
  Cuernavaca
  Cuernavaca is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. It was established at the archeological site of Gualupita I by the Olmec, "the mother culture" of Mesoamerica, approximately 3200 years ago...
  
  
• McKinsey bureaus
• remodeling of the O'Gorman
  Edmundo O'Gorman
  Edmundo O'Gorman O'Gorman was an Irish-Mexican writer, historian and philosopher....
  
   house
• "Yturbe" swimming pool, Acapulco
  Acapulco
  Acapulco is a city, municipality and major sea port in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, southwest from Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semi-circular bay and has been a port since the early colonial period of Mexico’s history...
  
   (1968)
• mall, Plaza del Sol
• "Pedro Coronel
  Pedro Coronel
  Pedro Coronel Arroyo was a Mexican abstract painter, sculptor, draughtsman, and engraver.-Biography:...
  
  " house, Distrito Federal de México (1970)
• Jardin Tapia, Guadalajara
  Guadalajara, Jalisco
  Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...
  
   (1973)
• Centro Financiero Banamex, Guadalajara (1978)
• Jaiba project, Playa Jaibas, Jalisco
  Jalisco
  Jalisco officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and divided in 125 municipalities and its capital city is Guadalajara.It is one of the more important states...
  
   (1980)
• "La Mancanilla", La Puenta, Manzanilla, Colima
  Colima
  Colima is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It shares its name with its capital and main city, Colima....
  
   (1980)
• "García Villaseñor" house, Zapopan, Jalisco (1980)
• "Muñóz de Baena" house, Tecámac, Hidalgo (1995)