Alejandro Zohn Rosenthal born Alexander Zohn[1]​ (Vienna, August 8, 1930-Guadalajara "Guadalajara (Mexico)"), August 4, 2000) was a Mexican architect of Austrian Jewish origin.

Born in Vienna, on August 8, 1930. His parents were the pharmaceutical chemist and professor Haica Rosenthal Eisenstein and the accountant and businessman Jakob Hersch Zohn Wurn.

In 1936 he began his primary school at the Gersthof School, from where he was expelled due to his Jewish origin when Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. His father was interned in the Dachau concentration camp and after ceding his assets to the German State, paying a high emigration tax and with the visa obtained at the Mexican consulate in Hamburg, they managed to leave exile in Mexico, where they arrived on February 17, 1939.[2]​.

He settled with his parents in San Pedro Tlaquepaque and entered the Cervantes School in Guadalajara "Guadalajara (Mexico)"), where he finished primary school. From 1943 to 1946 he attended secondary school, and from 1946 to 1948 he completed his baccalaureate at the same Marist College. In September 1948 he entered the Faculty of Engineering recently installed at the Technological Institute of the University of Guadalajara, very close to his home in San Pedro Tlaquepaque; But, attracted by the classical music, aesthetics and drawing classes taught at the time by Mathias Goeritz, Juan José Arreola and José Ruiz Medrano, among others, in 1950 he decided to switch to the School of Architecture.

On May 21, 1955, he obtained his professional degree in civil engineering, with the thesis that dealt with the new Libertad Market in San Juan de Dios. In 1956, still as an architecture intern, he was appointed professor of Composition at the School of Architecture of the University of Guadalajara. On October 22, 1962, he received his degree in architecture with the thesis “The architecture of reinforced concrete.”[3]​.

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En junio de 1963, ante la huelga estudiantil encabezada por Jorge Enrique Zambrano Villa"), al ser acusado de “dureza” en el cumplimiento de los deberes académicos, se vio obligado a renunciar a su cátedra de Composición y al Consejo de Escuela de Arquitectura. A pesar de esto, le guardó a la Universidad de Guadalajara una “lealtad enorme desde sus estudios”.