Friar Gabriel Chávez de la Mora was a Mexican Benedictine monk who was conferred the Mexican National Architecture Award in 2020, and one of the main architects behind the design of the noted Guadalupe’s Basilica, theBasílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in Mexico City.
Born in Guadalajara (Jalisco) in 1929, he began his studies in civil engineering at the School of Engineering of the University of Guadalajara in 1947 but the next year, as the School of Architecture opened, he changed his career, thus becoming part of the first generation of architects who graduated from said university.