[2] Born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1932 of a British father (Frank Alcock Lascelles) and a Venezuelan mother (Matilde Perez-Matos).

He attended the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where he graduated as an architect in 1959.

In 1959 he associated with his teacher, the architect Jose Miguel Galia, with whom he worked until 1962, when he established his own architectural practice.

Jimmy Alcock’s work has a volumetric clarity in search of an architectural composition closely linked to the landscape and the environment, to the vernacular, to functionality, but most importantly a strong concern for space and an emphasis on the tectonic and structural aspects of architecture.

In 1992, the exhibition Alcock Obras y Proyectos was held at the Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas, and participated with several projects in the exhibition Latin American in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2015.