Alejandro Aptilon

Alejandro Aptilon is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the KU School of Architecture & Design. His award-winning architectural firm has been commissioned to design projects in Mexico, Israel, and the United States and was selected by the AIA Gallery in New York as a representative of emerging trends in Mexican architecture. Aptilon has taught in both the undergraduate and graduate art and architecture programs at various academic institutions in Mexico and the U.S. He has written extensively about Mexican architecture and produced a documentary series on Mexico City architecture for Mexico’s public television network. His work has been widely exhibited and published internationally in numerous periodicals and books, including Global Architecture and compendia such as 1000X Architecture of the Americas (Braun, 2008), and he is co-author with Alfonso Pérez-Méndez of the book Las Casas del Pedregal 1947-1968 (Gustavo Gili, 2007).