Eduardo, who comes from a bilingual family, attended ASF from 1943 to 1947, aged 9 to 12. He lived in Lomas de Chapultepec and remembers Monte Líbano street looking like one from the suburbs of L. A. He attended ASF when it was located on Insurgentes, in a building founded in 1822. "The building had an American football field. I remember this was a very unique feature for a Mexico City school." At school, he played baseball and was one of the seven dwarfs in the school's production of Snow White.
"My family wanted me to attend ASF because my mom was the President of the Girl Scouts in Mexico and my dad worked with British engineers. Also, my older brother graduated from ASF and moved to California to study architecture." His family has been in the arts for many years. However, they decided to have Eduardo study in another school because of revalidations. Eduardo graduated from the National School of Architecture in Mexico City (UNAM) and studied his Masters in architecture at Cornell University of New York.
Eduardo's learned practice spans architecture, art and design, achieving a lively mix of geometric study and handcraft. Using an approach that marries South American folk art and European avant-garde influences, he has produced more than 600 works over 45 years. He first became interested in folk art as a museographer, later collaborating with the Wixárika (commonly known as huicholes), a native Indian ethnic group. He has exhibited in Bellas Artes and at the Benjamín Franklin gallery in downtown Mexico City. His series, "Constellations" (2013), involves traditional techniques of yarn painting on wood board and fine beadwork in beeswax, processes that render brightly colored or monochrome mathematical patterns with the formal rigor of De Stijl. His architectural training has led him to develop many projects in Mexican cities, while his design background informed his work as a collaborator on the design of the logo for the 1968 Summer Olympics with Beatriz Trueblood. Eduardo has been a professor of the University of Columbia and at the University of California in Berkeley. He was commissioned to build Mexico's pavilion for the New York World Expo in 1964 and was a key collaborator with the Tanzanian government for the design of their new capital Dodoma.
Even though Eduardo studied at ASF a long time ago, he is still an active alumni in our community. He attended the alumni breakfast held in 2018 and was a speaker at our 2019 ASF Talks. Eduardo has been an inspiration to all our community!