Carlos Jimenez
Principal, Carlos Jimenez Studio
Professor, Rice School of Architecture
"The Marvel of Architecture"
Monday, September 13, 2010
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Plym Professor Lecture Series
Carlos
Jimenez
www.carlosjimenezstudio.com
Born 1959 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Moves to the United States in 1974. Trained as an architect at the University of Houston College of Architecture (B.Arch.1981). Establishes Carlos Jimenez Studio in Houston in 1983. Tenured Professor at Rice University School of Architecture in 2000, having previously taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Texas A&M University, Rice University, University of California in Los Angeles and at Berkeley, University of Navarra in Pamplona Spain, Williams College, Tulane University, University of Houston, Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, University of Texas at Arlington and at Austin, and University of Oregon. Jimenez is a frequent lecturer, critic and jury member at national and international architecture events. Jury member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize since 2001.
Built works range from residential to institutional including among others: the Central Administration and Junior School for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Spencer Studio Art Building at Williams College, the Irwin Mortgage Corporate Headquarters, the Cummins Child Development Center, the Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, the Crowley House, the Rice University Library Service Center and Data Center, the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and the Centre Urbain in Evry France.
Jimenez has received several awards for excellence in design from Architectural Record, the American Institute of Architects, the Chicago Athenaeum, Architecture, Progressive Architecture and the Architectural League of New York among others. The work has been published in numerous architectural journals, dedicated monographs and authored books such as “Carlos Jimenez” (Barcelona), “Carlos Jimenez Buildings” (New York), “Carlos Jimenez House and Studio” (Cambridge), and “Crowley” (Singapore).
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