Zabludovsky studied architecture in Mexico City and, from the 1960s, formed a long partnership with Teodoro González de León that produced some of Mexico's most consistent Brutalist civic architecture: El Colegio de México, the Rufino Tamayo Museum and the National Auditorium among them, all built in bare, board-marked concrete rather than applied finishes. The two shared authorship without a settled hierarchy, and their 1982 National Award of Science and Arts named them jointly for the Tamayo museum's design. Outside the partnership, Zabludovsky also built housing and cultural buildings under his own name in Mexico City, continuing to practise until close to his death in 2003.
