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The concrete, geometrically sculptural houses of Mexican architect Rafael PardoThe buildings of Mexican architect Rafael Pardo are almost sculptural—concrete prisms intersecting to form domestic spaces. This monograph presents eight projects built in Xalapa, Veracruz, including photographs, original sketches and an interview by Miguel Adrià.

Echoes of a Land features contributions by 21 participants, architects and designers as a proposal for the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition in 2018. Curated by Mexican architect Gabriela Etchegaray, the pavilion integrates the work of emerging and established Mexican architects.

Meyenberg's multimedia installation, centered around a family dinner, evokes both the migrant's journey and the possibility of momentary rootednessPublished with KMEC.Erick Meyenberg's (born 1980) project for the Mexican Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, As we marched away comprises a four-channel video of a family dinner and an installation of a large table laden with ceramic objects, highlighting the profound power of shared experience.

Delve into the award-winning Catalan architecture studio’s unique combination of material craft and avant-garde dynamismArgentinian architect Ricardo Flores (born 1965) and Spanish architect Eva Prats (born 1965) began their artistic partnership with the foundation of their studio in Barcelona in 1998. Since its conception, Flores & Prats has operated according to a design ethos that fuses craft with academia, approaching research and scholarship as a living practice that must result in the responsibility to make and to build. The studio has taken on a variety of projects with diverse functions in social housing, public spaces and university workshops. This volume compiles photography and analysis of Flores & Prats’ best-known projects, such as the Museum of the Mills, Campus Microsoft Italia, and the New Theater Sala Beckett. Also included are examinations of the studio’s experiments with portability, their use of film as a vehicle for architectural documentation and their recent menus of edible architecture created for special exhibitions in Barcelona and Copenhagen. Readers are guided through every stage of a single project’s evolution from early sketches to detailed models to final construction. In addition to reproductions of such process material, Thought by Hand includes writing by a variety of artists influenced by Flores & Prats, including the Sala Beckett theater’s director Toni Casares and renowned urban planner Manuel de Solà-Morales.

The definitive account of Chipperfield’s much-lauded Mexico City art museumLocated on a triangular site within the Polanco area of Mexico City, the internationally acclaimed Museo Jumex exhibits a sizable collection of contemporary art—Colección Jumex—and is part of a wider urban redevelopment. The extremely individual quality of the neighboring buildings overrides any attempt to integrate the museum with its surroundings and instead allows for a rare architectural opportunity: the construction of a building that is simultaneously distinct from and complementary to its larger context.This publication delineates the design and construction of the museum, as conceived by the David Chipperfield Architects—the group behind New York’s Rolex Building (2019), among numerous other international developments. Museo Jumex features photographs by Iwan Baan, texts by architecture scholars Miquel Adrià, Patrick Charpenel, Luis Fernández-Galiano and Beatrice Galilee, as well as a conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and David Chipperfield on the conceptual basis of the project.

An essential guide to Mexico City, surveying more than 180 architectural works from the early 20th century to the presentThis new edition of Arquine's essential guide to Mexico City compiles more than 180 works of architecture dating from the early 20th century up to the present day, adding 30 recently constructed buildings to the previous edition. The book also includes new photos to reflect the changes in appearance of various buildings, thereby providing a more tangible and up-to-date portrait of Mexico City.To help orient readers across the city's vast terrain, the guide is divided into five areas, and includes seven maps to create a comprehensive panorama of the Mexican megalopolis. Each project includes details about the architects, the location and year of construction, as well as relevant public transport information. Mexico City Architecture Guide will prove invaluable for both international visitors and residents alike, offering a thorough account of the city and its rich architectural culture.

"Gonzalez has lately emerged as one of Miami’s most influential young architects." –Raul A. Barreneche, the New York TimesSpecializing in the design of museum and gallery spaces, hospitality, commercial retail and residential projects, Miami-based Rene Gonzalez Architects also endeavors to develop solutions to rising sea levels in coastal communities. This volume compiles drawings and photographs of a residence on Prairie Avenue in Miami designed by the firm in 2018. Inspired by red mangrove trees, the dwelling hovers entirely above the ground plane. A lush garden covers most of the site and absorbs enormous quantities of water. Charles Renfro celebrates the building thus: "Is this blown-up modernism, a house made of fragments and gaps, also a new gay architecture? If so, it is but one of the many ways this compact complex house performs, one that in so many ways pulls modernism forward into a brave new world of sensuality, sexuality and lifestyle. Within it, social progress has found a new architecture."

Lectures on landscaping, history and ecology from the peerless landscape architect who revolutionized the garden aesthetic The great landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94) revolutionized tropical garden aesthetics for the 20th century, and today his designs for parks and gardens are celebrated across the world. Marx’s innovations can be summarized, as author Rossana Vaccarino observes, "in four general design concepts—the use of native tropical vegetation as a structural element of design, the rupture of symmetrical patterns in the conception of open spaces, the colorful treatment of pavements and the use of free forms in water features."Intangible Heritage presents both Marx’s work and teachings, compiling nine of his most seminal lectures written between 1962 and 1983. Illustrated with images of his mosaics and detailed maps, the volume groups Marx’s lectures into three thematic sections: in the first, he explores how botanical expeditions, such as his trip to the Amazonas in 1983, informed his thinking about urban landscapes; in the second, Marx traces facets of landscape architecture to their ancestral origins and discusses the role of subjectivity in the profession; in the third, he delves into society's responsibility to protect the environment. The publication also features texts from Marx’s collaborators and admirers, including an essay by José Tabacow, partner of Marx in his last projects, and conversations with art critic Jacques Leenhardt.

Selected projects from an over-20-year-old Mexico City-based architectural firmThis survey chronicles 21 buildings from the Mexico City–based architectural firm Mayer Hasbani Architects, founded in 2000, whose avant-garde projects range in scale from single-family units to high-rise residential blocks and office spaces, as well as interior design.

A visual and scholarly deep dive into Cuba's modernist gems of the postwar eraIn the decades after World War II, from just prior to the revolution and into the mid-1980s, modernist architecture blossomed in Cuba, attracting both native talent and leading international architects from Europe. Havana Modern examines Cuban modernism’s highlights with a wealth of archival materials, photos and new scholarship. Edited by Rubén Gallo—author of Mexican Modernity (2005), Freud’s Mexico (2010) and Proust’s Latin Americans (2014)—the volume is arranged in 10 chapters authored by current and former Princeton faculty members and graduate students. These essays, which arose from seminars organized by Gallo and historian Beatriz Colomina, examine Max Abramovitz’s American Embassy; Richard Neutra’s De Schultess House; Martín Domínguez Esteban, Miguel Gastón and Emilio del Junco’s Radiocentro; Mies van Der Rohe’s office building for Ron Barcardí S.A.; Vittorio Garatti, Roberto Gottardi and Ricardo Porro’s National Art Schools for Havana; Mario Girona’s Coppelia Ice-cream parlor and park; Vittorio Garatti, Hugo D’Acosta and Sergio Baroni’s Cuban Pavilion at Expo 67; Antonio Quintana and Alberto Rodriguez’s "Edificio Experimental"; and Aleksandr Grigorievich Rochegov’s USRR Embassy. Havana Modern draws on history, politics, culture, literature and film to elucidate this outstandingly rich era in architectural history.

A leading Mexican architect’s photographic panorama of the past century’s greatest buildings This beautifully designed volume offers an architect’s portrait of modern and contemporary architecture. Through the lens of Alfonso Lopéz Baz (born 1947), cofounder of the leading Mexican firm Grupo LBC Arquitectos, great buildings by some of the past century’s finest architects are depicted with engaging and exquisite compositional drama. Lopéz Baz’s photographs are accompanied by phrases and thoughts from prominent architects that reflect on architecture and life.Featured architects include: Tadao Ando, Luis Barragán, Marcel Breuer, David Chipperfield, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Frederick P. Dinkelberg, Charles Eames, Antón García-Abril, Frank Gehry, Giles Gilbert Scott, Teodoro González de León, Herzog & De Meuron, Alberto Kalach, Kisho Kurokawa, Javier García Lascuráin, Daniel Libeskind, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer, Enrique Norten, Jean Nouvel, Juan O’Gorman, Renzo Piano, Eero Saarinen, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, Kenzo Tange, TEN Arquitectos, José Villagrán García and Rafael Viñoly.

Two decades of work from a sustainability-minded Peruvian architectural firmThis substantial paperback monograph chronicles 20 years of projects from Peruvian architectural studio Poggione+Biondi, helmed by René Poggione and Susel Biondi. Compiling a selection of their projects through photographic documentation and drawings, it also features texts by Zaida Muxí and Josep Maria Montaner that narrate the process and evolution of Poggione+Biondi's architecture.Among the firm’s acclaimed buildings are a hotel in Miraflores; the Campo Oeste House in Cieneguilla; and the Verdea apartments in Miraflores. In these buildings, as in all of their projects—from universities to parks and landscape works—sustainable materials and integration of natural materials are prominent features.

The year's innovations in Mexican architecture, from both emerging and celebrated firmsThis is the latest in a series of biannual publications examining the most innovative examples of contemporary architecture from across Mexico, from both established and emerging architecture studios. It provides a general overview of Mexico's architectural scene, documenting changes in trends in recent years.Architects include: a911, Ambrosi Etchegaray, bgp arquitectura. Bernardo Gomez-Pimienta, CCA Centro de Colaboracion Arquitectonica, Colectivo C733, Dellekamp/Schleich, Estudio MMX, Fernanda Canales, Francisco Pardo Arquitecto, graciastudio, Hector Barroso, Jorge Hernandez de la Garza, JSa, Juan Carral, Julio Amezcua, LBR&A - Benjamin Romano, Legorreta, Lucio Muniain, Ludwig Godefroy, Macias Peredo, Manuel Cervantes, PRODUCTORA, Rojkind Arquitectos, Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura, S-AR, Serrano & Monjaraz, Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, Taller Mauricio Rocha, Taller Capital, Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO, TAX Taller de Arquitectura X, TO, +UdeB and AGENdA.

Research on multifamily housing and its impact on the daily lives of ordinary people, from a leading Canadian architectural firmThese four slipcased volumes build on 5468796 Architecture’s housing manifesto “Add via Edit: A Decade in Housing”, the symposium “platform.MIDDLE: Architecture for Housing the 99%” hosted at Illinois Institute of Technology and examples by practice-related offices.The work and research of the Winnipeg-based firm 5468796 Architecture (described as “one of the most talented young design firms worldwide”) has focused on “missing middle” and midrise housing in its many forms and ownership models, from refugee and social housing to market-rate condominiums. With the condominium boom taking hold across North America, the number of residential units passing across architects’ desks is unprecedented. As a result of the typology’s inherent repetition and potentially banal program—as well as the private sector’s pursuit of profit, often at the expense of quality and livability—the margin in which architecture can operate is very narrow. Architects must respond to the challenges of this typology with the rigor it deserves.

Sleek and sophisticated contemporary dwellings from one of Mexico’s most notable architecture firmsThis book commemorates the first 25 years of the studio GLR Arquitectos, an architecture firm based in Monterrey, Mexico, with a selection of 25 projects: from residential architecture to urban recycling, including large-scale, mixed-use projects and institutional buildings.

A jewel of Japanese residential architecture, presented through stunning immersive photographs and detailed fold-out plansOne of the great examples of Japanese residential architecture, the Yoshijima House has stood in the historic old city of Takayama for over 100 years. Built in 1907 after a fire and under the direction of Nishida Isaburo, the complex functioned as a residence for the Yoshijima family, a wealthy merchant household that brewed sake. The builders used luxuriant wood including elm, red pine and cypress: rich materials that were becoming more readily available as the Edo period gave way to the Meiji era.Different sections of the main building served diverse functions. The large entryway and its adjacent rooms served as the shop entrance and the places in which business was conducted. An eight-tatami room known as a kazuki was where the Yoshijima family went about their daily, personal activities. The building’s second floor was intended for guests and also housed a tea ceremony room and a Buddhist altar. Throughout the Yoshijima House, semitransparent shoji, or sliding doors, allow for gentle filtration of light throughout the rooms, while a skylight in the tiled roof provides greater illumination.In the latter half of the 20th century, both Japanese and international architectural historians began to champion the Yoshijima House as a paragon of domestic architecture. Charles Moore praised it in the magazine Shinkenchiku, and Japanese building photographer Yukio Futagawa compared its significance to Athens’ Parthenon. Although today it functions as a “living museum,” the Yoshijima House is not stocked with objects that recall its occupants. Indeed, it is this bareness and simplicity that allows the building’s incredible craftsmanship to shine through.This oversized volume is based on the 1988 book Important Cultural Properties: The Yoshijima House. Unlike that original edition, the 385 full-bleed color photographs by Hata Ryoo are here systematically arranged, facilitating a complete room-by-room tour of the house. Thirty-one architectural plans, including six gatefolds, allow for true appreciation of the building in all its greatness.

Ensuring equality and accessibility for students in schools within Peru’s Amazon regionPlan Selva is an initiative of the Ministry of Education of Peru that aims to ensure essential habitability conditions in schools in the Amazon. Illustrated with maps, schemes, drawings, plans and photos, this book explains the educational context of the Amazon and the relations between teaching and architecture.

Mexico City’s latest and greatest residential buildings designed by the country’s leading architectural firmsThis volume brings together 10 residential works built in Mexico City during the past five years by outstanding firms. Led by Welt, a real estate development team, each project follows the keys of housing: optimal location, accessibility and habitability.

Sketches, essays, projects and more from the Houston-based architect and professorCosta Rican American architect Carlos Jiménez (born 1959) pursues scholarship through design—integrating drawing and writing with the making of buildings and architectural spaces. In 1983, he established Houston–based Carlos Jiménez Studio, an innovative design practice that focuses on the endurance and refinement of form and space. Jiménez was a long-term (2001–11) jury member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. This book is a 35-year journey through Jiménez’s career, exploring the discipline of architecture through practice and teaching, but also through writings, drawings and buildings. A curated collection of his essays, written from 1989 to the present day, reflect on outstanding cities, architects and buildings around the world: from New York to Houston, from Erik Gunnar Asplund to Luis Barragán, and from the Kimbell Art Museum to the Crowley House, among others.

Across Colombia's tropic regions, Vélez reimagines sustainable, community-based collective living as a means for social equityPublished with Mesa Estándar.With more than 30 years of professional practice, Colombian architect Ana Elvira Vélez (born 1966) believes in conscious and creative design as a way to bring equity to the country's varying tropical landscapes. This monograph surveys her collective housing projects in the department of Antioquia and beyond.

Mixing and matching discrete elements, Mexican firm Apaloosa takes an alchemical approach to residential architectureThis book documents the first 10 years of the architecture studio Apaloosa based in Chiapas, Mexico. Like an alchemist, Apaloosa experiments with materials and their semiotics, mixing and inserting walls, lattices, columns and structures to create a house that balances local customs with a global spirit and contemporary finish.

Cutting-edge examples of urban architecture from renowned firms across Mexico CityPublished with Colegio de Arquitectos de la Ciudad de México.The sixth edition of Mexico City’s architecture biennial celebrates the best built works, research projects and publications completed between June 2021 and May 2023 throughout the country and produced in the greater metropolitan area.

With a poetic yet sustainable design approach, Tagliabue and her studio reshape the role of public buildings in urban settingsThis monograph brings together a selection of works by Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT, an internationally acknowledged architecture studio founded in Barcelona in 1994 by Enric Miralles (1955–2000) and Benedetta Tagliabue (born 1963) that has shaped the face of European architecture. With projects such as the Santa Caterina market and neighborhood in Barcelona, the Parliament in Scotland, the transformation of the old port of Hamburg in Hafencity and the new church and parish complex San Giacomo in Ferrara, this book presents the EMBT studio's methodology and architectural approach. Through a collection of visual materials, texts and narratives, this book weaves notable projects to showcase the design philosophy and thought process of Benedetta and Enric's studio through an approach to understanding space, connecting people, narratives and locations through an integrated architectural and contemporary lens.

Designs, drawings and data spanning 25 years of space- and energy-efficient residential housing projects across Mexico CityFounded by Yuri Zagorin in 2000, the work of Mexico City–based architecture firm ZDA focuses on projects of various scales, ranging from single-family homes and apartment towers all the way to object design. Each project is designed with maximum spatial and energy efficiency in mind, contributing to the city's overall renewal and development potential.

Held in the American South, this lecture series by Latin American architects aims to expand the scope of North American design curricula Published with The University of Tennessee.Hosted at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, this series of lectures by architects from the Global South spotlights professionals from Latin America who propose alternative approaches to architecture, explore design through diverse geographic lenses and promote the optimal use of resources to maximize impact.

In praise of what could have been: 15 unbuilt projects from the Mies van der Rohe Award–winning firmFounded in 1986 in Mexico City by Enrique Norten, TEN Arquitectos subsequently opened offices in New York and Miami and built its reputation as one of North America's leading firms. TEN Arquitectos is known for its broad range of projects, including cultural institutions, residential buildings and mixed-use developments, and has won recognitions such as the Mies van der Rohe Award and the AIA International Design Award.Ideas in Transit compiles 15 unbuilt projects from TEN Arquitectos, selected by Enrique Norten in collaboration with Pedro Gadanho, curator of the accompanying exhibition held at the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City. Including hand-drawn diagrams and sketches as well as an extended flap with a timeline of the unbuilt works, the book pays homage to the firm's creative potency when liberated from concessions made to clients, financial constraints, time pressures or worksite complications.

Mexico's indigenous floating farms meet Venice's floating city in this study of traditional practice and environmental adaptationThe Mexican Pavilion for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale enlarges upon the chinampa, a traditional Mesoamerican farming practice that creates small areas of fertile land on top of lake beds, and the often disregarded society that has emerged out of this way of life.

The go-to reference for Mexico's newest, best and most successful architectural projects and the firms behind themThis latest volume in the biannual publication series highlights the most innovative and impressive architecture projects across Mexico for the years 2023 and 2024. It provides a general overview of Mexico's architectural scene, documenting changes in trends in recent years.

ARS' dialectic between architecture and landscape instills a sense of ritual into their residential and public spacesThis book is the first survey of Atelier ARS, an emerging architectural firm led by Alejandro Guerrero and Andrea Soto, based in Guadalajara, Mexico. It offers insight into its distinctive architectural approach, which blends artisanal craftsmanship with industrial techniques.