Francisco Gonzalez Pulido
@francisco_gonzalez
Founder / CEO / Design Director, FGP Atelier, United States
About
Born in Mexico City in 1970. In 1991, he graduates from Monterrey Tec with a Bachelors's in Architecture. In 1993, he completes his first residential project, a 5,000SF villa in the north east of Mexico. From 1993-1997 he continued to design and develop high-end residential and corporate projects such as a technical training center for General Motors in Mexico City and the headquarters for PriceWaterhouse in Mexico. In 1998, he is accepted to the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a Masters Degree. In 2000, he joins JAHN. 8 years later, he becomes Helmut Jahn’s first partner and in 2012, President of the Company. In the last 10 years of his time at JAHN, he designs a wide range of buildings from pavilions and boutique spaces to stadiums and airports, from speculative spaces and explorations to science buildings and skyscrapers across five continents. In 2017, he founded FGP Atelier. He has been awarded the Green Building Award for the Americas for his Orchid Educational Pavilion in Oaxaca by Architects Newspaper. He recently completed the 20,000-seat Diabos Rojos baseball stadium in Mexico, City and broke ground on a 320M tall tower in Guangzhou, PRC in the summer of 2019. He currently is working on the Felipe Angeles International Airport at Santa Lucia that will handle 20M passengers in the first phase and serve the Mexico City metropolitan region. FGP developed the master plan for the whole airport complex that will handle 84M passengers per year.