Teodoro González de León (1926–2016) was a Mexican architect known for large public buildings in Mexico City. He studied at the national school of architecture of UNAM from 1942 to 1947 and, on a French government scholarship, spent 1948–49 in Le Corbusier's office. While still a student he put forward the original concept for UNAM's Ciudad Universitaria campus, now a World Heritage Site. From 1974 to 1982 he designed public buildings with Abraham Zabludovsky, among them the INFONAVIT headquarters, and later the Mexican embassy in Berlin (2001). He received Mexico's National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 1982 and the UIA Gold Medal in 2008.
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El Colegio de México (1976), the main building of the college's new campus in the south of the capital, was one of his works with Zabludovsky. So was the Museo Tamayo in Chapultepec Park (1981), which houses the collection of the painter Rufino Tamayo; its design earned both architects the National Prize in 1982. The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (2008), Mexico's first public museum devoted to 21st-century art, sets a minimal, sloping glass façade against the surrounding buildings of the 1970s.
