Alcérreca-Huerta, Jorge Alejandro

Jorge Alcérreca was born in the Mexico City on December 8, 1979. He is architect and master of architecture at the UNAM in the field of Economics, Politics and Environment, exploring the relationship between housing, economy and sustainability with the thesis: "Housing in the construction of family energy and food independence "of which an article has been published at the University of Chile. He is currently a doctoral student in Humanistic Studies at the Tecnológico de Monterrey where he researches expressions of religiosity art expressed in the urban public space of Mexico City. There he has been professor of chair in the following subjects: History of Art; Research Methodologies; Architecture, space and project; Descriptive geometry; as well as Development and Environment. He has taken courses in Ancient Urbanism of Rome and the Mediterranean by the Anthropological Research Institute of the UNAM and Sapienza, Università di Roma, as well as refresher courses in the discipline such as the structural convergence course between music and literature at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, among others, as well as a diploma in "Sustainable design and construction" at the Universidad Iberoamericana. He has developed his professional activity since 1999 in the development of health, university, housing, commercial and governmental buildings from draftsman to project coordinator. He has also participated as an exhibitor of the Cultural Tourism program at INAH. At the moment it focuses on the development of interior design projects. He has been recognized for his contributions in the field of Architecture and Urbanism as in the "5th Congress of Architecture of the University of León Gto." (2009), in the "42nd Congress of Research and Development of Tecnológico de Monterrey" (2012) and in the "7th International Congress of Environmental and Territorial Studies" (2012). In 2018 he will participate in the "48th Monterrey Research and Development Congress". Its current formal influences are related to those that link memory, mystery, sustainable development and religiosity, so it is close to the ideas of Luis Barragán in the use of gardens and serial vision, but also close to the spontaneity and permanence of the memory of urban art such as street altars, as well as the vintage lines that propose the reuse of plastic elements: Memory, Life and Mystery. He is currently Director of the Architecture Program of the Mexico City Campus of the Tecnológico de Monterrey where he has implemented important strategies in the teaching-learning process; and under his direction the 25 years of the career on the campus have been celebrated with sustained growth in the new admissions, in the quality of the program taught and its teaching staff that have led to the conclusion, under his leadership, of the recertification of the Architecture program before ANPADEH.