I was starting an entrepreneurial endeavor.” Meet the Market I was very aware that what I was starting was not just an architectural office or a builder’s office. “I took the money I’d made and bought more lots and began building more homes. That first project sold during the framing stage. I had that itch.” So he raided his savings and got a bank loan. “But, coming from Mexico, where the majority of architects have their own construction companies, I felt architects should implement their work. Jauregui (pronounced how-REH-ghee) began his practice right away, taking both commercial commissions and some residential jobs, “doing design only, as I was trained at Texas A&M,” he says. “It was a huge advantage.” He got licensed just two years after graduation. “I had the opportunity to work with architects throughout my college education, so when I graduated with my master’s I already had six years working in an architecture office,” Jauregui says. When Jauregui was a freshman, a teacher recommended him for a job with an architect. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s in environmental design and received a master of architecture degree two years later. for college when, in 1971, during his architecture studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the school went on strike.
Since his first design/build project in 1982-a spec house funded by all of his savings and a bank loan with 18 percent interest-architect Luis Jauregui has added to his arsenal of architectural and building services, which include real estate, development, and interior design.Ī native of Mexico, Jauregui came to the U.S.
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