Francisco Gonzalez Pulido
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| Born | February 1970 (age 47) MEX Mexico City
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| Nationality | Mexican |
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Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Harvard University |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | National Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects |
| Buildings | Veer Towers |
Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido (February, 1970) is a Mexican architect noted for his expressive yet rational design approach. From 1992 through 1998, he worked on his own and in 1999 he joined the Chicago firm “Murphy/Jahn” (which he renamed JAHN in 2012). He has worked on a wide range of building typologies with a strong emphasis on the design of skyscrapers and airports, in America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. After a long time working with Helmut Jahn, he became its first partner in 2009 and president in 2012.
Gonzalez-Pulido is a Mexican architect, born on February 13, 1970, in Mexico City. At the age of six he moved with his family to the north of Mexico.
Since childhood he has always been interested in both: art and technology, but during his early years he thought of becoming a rock and roll musician. To this date he continues to compose and record on his own. He also collects both vintage guitars and amplifiers. As a teenager he enroll in school to be an architect, which he did when he was 17. He attended the Tec de Monterrey in Monterrey from 1987 to 1991 and got his bachelor in the field of Architecture. After working on his own for a while, he went back to school because he wanted to learn more about cutting edge designs in order to work on bigger projects. From 1998 to 1999 he attended Harvard’s School of Design and obtained his Master.
Gonzalez-Pulido has been described as a man with “big personality” and “great ideas”. He says that he was not an architect, he would have chosen to be a composer or a film director.
Soon after graduating from the Tec de Monterrey, at the age of 22 he was hired to build a summer house, a project that gave him experience as both designer and builder; he gained knowledge, skill and reputation from that project and allowed him to participate in design competitions, winning one Price Waterhouse. Nevertheless, they withdrew the offer when they knew that he did not had a firm to complete the work.
During this time he founded 2MX3, working as an independent architect in Mexico and the United States. Among his most important projects during that period are: U2 Studio in Dublin, the Casa Zárate and Museo M+M in Oaxaca, the Casa Palmas in Tamaulipas, the General Motors Centro Técnico S XXI in Mexico City. Even after being accepted into Harvard he continued working individually and during that time he was the recipient of the 1st place in an ideas competition organized by Vicente Fox which at that time was a candidate for the presidency of Mexico. Gonzalez-Pulido project was called La Casa Sintética, defined as a modular pre-fabricated housing project, based on concepts of elastic space.
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