Xavier Cortés Rocha

Xavier Cortés Rocha is a Mexican architect and urban planner. He was also rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) for a short time. He was born in Tampico.

Biography

Cortés graduated in architecture and later in urban planning at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the UNAM. He continued his studies in Paris. After 1968 he taught at the UNAM. In 1999 he became Secretary General of the UNAM, and was interims UNAM president from 12 to 17 of November 1999. From 2001 to 2009 he was director of Sitios y Monumentos del Patrimonio Cultural of the CONACULTA, as well as president of the Academia Nacional de Arquitectos. He is emeritus professor of the College of Architecture of the UNAM.

External links

• Xavier Cortés Rocha in the Ibero-American Institute'a catalogue

Rectors of the Universidad Nacional (Autónoma) de México (UNAM respectively UNM) Eguía Lis (1910–1913) Chávez Lavista (1913–1914) Gama y Cruz (1914–1915) Natividad Macías (1915–1916) Schultz (1916–1917) Natividad Macías (1917–1920) Caso Andrade (1920) Dávalos Balkim (1920) Vasconcelos Calderón (1920–1921) Silva y Aceves (1921) Caso Andrade (1921–1923) Chávez Lavista (1923–1924) Pruneda García (1924–1928) Castro Leal (1928–1929) García Téllez (1929) López Lira (1929) García Téllez (1929–1932) Medellín Ostos (1932–1933) Gómez Morín (1933–1934) Aragón (1934) Ocaranza Carmona (1934–1935) Chico Goerne (1935–1938) Baz Prada (1938–1940) De la Cueva (1940–1942) Brito Foucher (1942–1944) Ramírez Moreno (1944) Aguilar Álvarez (1944) Gual Vidal (1944) „Junta de Exrectores“ (1944) Caso y Andrade (1944–1945) Fernández McGregor (1945–1946) Zubirán Anchondo (1946–1948) Garrido Díaz (1948–1953) Carrillo Flores (1953–1961) Chávez Sánchez (1961–1966) Barros Sierra (1966–1970) González Casanova (1970–1972) Soberón Acevedo (1973–1981) Rivero Serrano (1981–1985) Carpizo McGregor (1985–1989) Sarukhán Kermez (1989–1997) Barnés de Castro (1997–1999) Cortés Rocha (1999) De la Fuente Ramírez (1999–2007) Narro Robles (2007–2015)