Urbanism as childhood
Introduction
Estefanía Chávez Barragán (Laredo, Texas, December 26, 1932 - Mexico City, January 11, 2020) was a Mexican architect, doctor in urban planning, professor emeritus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) - where she founded the Urban Planning degree -, and union activist.[1] She is also considered a pioneer in the incorporation of the gender perspective in the problem of cities and in their teaching.[2][3].
Training
Estefanía Chávez grew up in the lower part of the Río Bravo in the camps where her father - the engineer surveyor[1] and secretary of state -, Eduardo Chávez Ramírez, fulfilled the orders of President Lázaro Cárdenas, for the construction of container ships on the border of Mexico with the United States and the establishment of an irrigation system.[4] In this context, from her early childhood, she became interested in urban planning when she saw how a project of this scale can transform people's quality of life. His sister, Margarita Chávez Barragán, also dedicated himself to architecture.
As he grew older, he studied secondary and upper secondary education in Mexico City. He completed high school at Campus 1 “Gabino Barreda” of the National Preparatory School. After weighing her interest in being an engineer[4][5] and the cons of the female gender at the time, she decided to enter a career in Architecture at the National School of Architecture "Faculty of Architecture (National Autonomous University of Mexico)") of the UNAM, graduating in 1954. Later, she obtained a master's degree in Architecture with a specialty in Urban Planning in 1990 and a doctorate in Urban Planning in 2009, both degrees with honors. honorific.[6].
Academic life
In 1959, at the aforementioned National School of Architecture, she began her teaching work as an assistant professor to Master Domingo García Ramos, together with whom she promoted the creation of the Urban Planning degree with a humanist approach.[1] In 1984, she finally founded this degree and coordinated it for 9 years.
She was a full-time "C" professor since 1993 and was part of the "D" level Full-Time Academic Staff Performance Bonuses Program.[7].
In addition to his extensive academic career, he taught more than 48 subjects at the now Faculty of Architecture "Faculty of Architecture (National Autonomous University of Mexico)") (FA) of the UNAM and more than 100 undergraduate and postgraduate courses[2] in his as in other Mexican and Latin American universities.[8] He organized the first courses for postgraduates and researchers, prior to the organization of the postgraduate course of this Faculty.