Mauricio Rocha
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Biography
He was born in Mexico CityMexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
in 1963 and studied architecture at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in the Max Cetto
Max Cetto
Max Ludwig Cetto was a German-Mexican architect, historian of architecture, and professor.Born in Koblenz, Germany, Max Cetto studied at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Munich and Berlin. At the latter he studied with Hans Poelzig, graduating as an engineer–architect in 1926...
workshop. He has taught architectural language and projects at the UNAM faculty, Anahuac University and Ibero University in México City, and has given lectures at prestigious Universities in the United States and Latin America.
Besides architecture he has worked as an artist doing interventions in different buildings and exhibiting at important national and international places such as Artists Space in New York.
In his architectural works his most outstanding buildings are different projects realized in México City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, like the “Center for the attention of blind people” in the Ixtapalapa district, “House for abandoned children” in Observatorio DF, “San Pablo Ozotepec Market” in the Milpa Alta district in DF, etc.
With his first project realized in 1990 (the house of the renowned Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide
- Biography :Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico in 1942, the eldest of thirteen children. She then married the architect Manuel Rocha Díaz in 1962 and had three children over the next eight years. Iturbide's six year old daughter died in 1970; after this death she turned to photography...
) he founded “Taller de Arquitectura”, although he collaborated with his father Manuel Rocha Diaz
Manuel Rocha Díaz
Manuel Rocha Diaz was a Mexican architect.He was born in Mexico City in 1936 and died in 1996. He graduated in 1961 at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico where he studied with Augusto H. Álvarez. In 1960 he spent three months in Japan where he had a big influence on Japanese traditional...
until his death in 1996. From the fusion of the two offices, Mauricio Rocha built the foundation of a new one, generating new projects for public and private buildings all over the country.
Mauricio Rocha is searching for a transparent architecture with a human scale. He is looking for a structural honesty based in the materials in order to conform the skeleton and skin of his buildings.
Awards and honors
- Golden medal at the VIII architecture biennale in México for the “San Pablo Oztotepec Market”. 2004.
- Silver medal at the VII architecture biennale in México for the "Blind people center". 2002.
- Covarrubias award for the best national museography in México with the “Introduction to anthropology” project in the National Museum of anthropology and history in México City. 2001.
Selected Realizations
- Audi automobile agency. México DF. 2002.
- Center for the attention of blind people. México DF. 2000.
- Casa Graciela Iturbide. México DF. 1990.