JORGE H. JIMÉNEZ

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Professional Studies:

Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at El Paso. Dissertation in progress. Borderland History Program (2000-2006)

Graduate Studies on Mexican History. School of Philosophy and Arts. National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM). 1995-1997. Masters Degree.

Professional Degree (Licenciatura en Arquitectura), School of Architecture. National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM). (1968-1972).

Teaching Activities:

Teaching Assistant Instructor in World History Courses for Undergraduate Students at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Professor at the National School of Architecture since 1974. Architectural Design Studio Workshop (Atelier), Thesis Seminars and a many courses as the Links of Mexican and United States Architecture. Retired.

Other academic experience:

Research on the urban phenomenon of "colonias" in border towns USA-Mexico, 2006

Research  on Early Towns in English American Colonies during the sabbatical at the University of Texas at El Paso, 2000.

Lectures for the Graduate Course on Mexico City organized by the University Program of Studies on Mexico City, UNAM, in 1997.

Visiting Professor at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (State of Chihuahua, Mexico). Courses for undergraduate students at thesis level. (1997-1998).

Professional Work:

Architectural Design:

Preliminary Design and Space Model of the Project Mayach'en Museum and Cultural Plaza, El Paso, TX. 2005 (last 2 photos).

Programming and Preliminary Project of the Mercado Mayapan. Myrtle 2102, El Paso TX. 2005.

Project and construction of single family houses (2 in 1998, first 5 photos) and low-income housing developments for organized groups of tenants, the most recent of these was done in the County of Ecatepec, a suburb of Mexico City (3 photos at left) and Workers Union of the Mexican Petroleum Company. (1975-2000).

Projects include reconstruction of downtown Mexico City housing areas hit by  the 1985 earthquake (300 departments) with international financial support from Oxfam, England,  Novib, Ford Foundation and Catholic Relief Services; Consulting architect  for the reconstruction of 1986 earthquake damages in San Salvador, El Salvador, sponsored by Oxfam, England.

Preliminary Design and Space Model of the Project Mayach'en Museum and Cultural Plaza. last 2 photos).

Book: La Traza del Poder. Historia de la política y los negocios urbanos en el Distrito Federal. De sus orígenes hasta la desaparición del Ayuntamiento (1824-1928), (The Plotting of Power. A History of politics and urban enterprise in Mexico's Federal District. From the beginnings until the disappearance of the Municipal government 1824-1928). Edited in Mexico in 1993.

Articles in specialized magazines and books, such as "Las Colonias del Imperio," for Magazine Repentina of the College of Architecture, UNAM, 2006. "Ciudades Moviles" for the Magazine of the College of Architecture, UNAM, 2002."Esas Ruinas Que Ves," an analysis of the structural collapse of the twin towers for the Latin American magazine La Casa Grande, 2002.

"History of Reforma Avenue", published in 1994 by the National Council for Culture and Arts and the National Institute of Art (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, CONACULTA and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, INBA); one on "Art-Déco Architecture", included in Twentieth Century Mexican Architecture, published in 1996 by the National Council for Culture and Arts (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, CONACULTA); and an article on "Spanish Colonial Architecture", published in the Reflexiones Bulletin in 1998.

Moderator at the Round Table denominated Uncovering Indigenous Connections, organized by the Mayach'en Museum and Cultural Plaza, 2004

Moderator at the Second Congress on Economic History in Mexico City. Panel on Entrepreneurs and Political Power. 2004.

The colonies of the USA. Analysis of the "colonias" urban development phenomenon in the United States. Lecture at the International Congress sponsored by the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez on Cities and Borders, 2002.

Lectures transcribed on this Web Page, such as "Urban Land Developers and the Spanish Colonial style in Mexico City" and Paper presented at the Annual Congress of the Society of Historian Architects in Baltimore, Maryland., USA, 1997.sponsored by the Getty Center.  

Interviewed on two programs on Mexican Architecture which were broadcasted by Mexico Cityïs local cultural station, channel 22 in 1993 and 1994 and by the Polytechnic Institute's national channel 11 in 1988.

Member of the Board of Border Art Residency, 2006.

Member of the Organizing Committee of the Ruben Salazar Media Award, 2004..

Chair of the Organizing Committee of the Mayach'en Museum and Cultural Plaza, 2003.

Member of CENVI, AC. , and Chair of Casa y Ciudad, AC., two urban oriented non profit organizations, 1979 - 1989.

Special Training:

Computer efficient (AutoCad, Internet, Web Design, MSOffice, Database)