Jose Manuel Gomez Vazquez Aldana

Faced with the challenges of globalization and sustainable planning in 2013, the study renamed as "Gomez Vazquez International". The firm is considered among the 100 most important architecture studios worldwide by the British magazine Building Design (in position 65 of the WA 100 list).

With a younger generation of architects at the beginning of 2000 and with his son Juan Carlos Gomez Castellanos as director, the firm moved to a new level of internationalization strengthening its presence in Panama, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico through multidisciplinary proposals and large structures that integrated into nature.

Urban Jal partnered with the Japanese corporation Marubeni, the third largest in Japan after Mitsubishi and Mitsui, conforming the construction company "Surban", and building "Residencial la Cruz". The company ended after the devaluation of the Mexican peso in 1993.

In 1967 he was invited to the United States with the "Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship" for an 11-month stay. During his studies and stay in North America he met the best architects in the world as Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, IM Pei, Yamasaki, Skidmore Owings & Merril, Victor Gruen, Alvar Aalto, Morris Lapidus and Constantinos Doxiadis, the father of ekistics and integral urban planning that already included sustainability. He spent a season with Doxiadis and visited the Athens Ekistic Center, joining the World Society for Ekistics, where he was Vice President.

He worked with the engineer Jorge Garcia de Quevedo: "There were no architects, so the engineers designed their own houses. At that time I still had not finished my studies but as I had talent for designing and drawing, suddenly found myself making houses and buildings even though I had not graduated." In a short period Gomez Vazquez finished his degree in 1961 and set up his own studio "Taller de Arquitectura" with his brother Jaime.

After graduation in 1961 he founded the study "Taller de Arquitectura" in Guadalajara with his brother Jaime and Ernesto Escobar. During his stay in the United States the study already had 30 architects for the design of buildings, houses and large-scale works such as the Hotel Tapatio or the Plaza de Toros Nuevo Progreso, so he traveled to Mexico every five weeks.

Jose Manuel Gomez Vazquez Aldana (born 2 October 1937) is a Mexican architect with a long career and international recognition. Creator of residential projects and monumental works in the United States and Latin America is founder of the international architecture studio "Gomez Vazquez International".