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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.
An accessible reader offering case studies of innovative alternatives to expansionist urban housingThis reader takes the following assumption as its basis: the ceaseless expansion of the urban periphery has been detrimental to not only urban populations but also the planet at large, corroding its most valuable and scarce resource, land. Housing proffers redensification as the corrective measure to the failing expansionist approach toward urban planning. Gathered here are case studies of alternative social housing projects from the past century--all of which incorporate methods of redensification. They span the Weißenhofsiedlung Estate (1927) to architectural experiments in suburban Mexico as recent as 2017.These alternative developments have offered solutions to countries experiencing intense population growth and provided sanctuary for those who have lost their homes in natural disasters. Altogether, the projects evince that the problem of urban housing is inextricably bound with the inception and progression of modernism.
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.
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.
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 Gómez-Pimienta, CCA Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica, Colectivo C733, Dellekamp/Schleich, Estudio MMX, Fernanda Canales, Francisco Pardo Arquitecto, graciastudio, Héctor Barroso, Jorge Hernández de la Garza, JSa, Juan Carral, Julio Amezcua, LBR&A - Benjamín 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.
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.
How architects can collaborate with communities in the creation of a more meaningful civic architecture: a user's guideAs community becomes a more dominant paradigm in how architecture is produced, more people become involved in its creation. This implies a change in the role of the architect from being an individual author to a facilitator, from being an independent expert to establishing and managing collaboration.With a wealth of detailed analysis and clear, well-designed graphics, this volume offers practical tools for a truly collaborative architecture that is based on analysis, management, data collection and design. Avilla-Royo demonstrates how the architectural project becomes an instrument for citizen involvement in decision-making and how citizen involvement offers an exciting opportunity to improve the design and everyday uses of architecture.Raül Avilla-Royo (born 1987) is a Spanish architect and lecturer at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) and the Architectural Association (AA) in London.
Selected projects from an over-20-year-old Mexico City-based architectural firmThis survey chronicles 21 buildings from the Mexico CityâEUR"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.
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.
"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."
Since 2015, Mexican architect Pardo has run his own practice in fast-growing and fast changing Mexico City. His projects have reflected how Mexico is transforming the idea of the Latin American city: part ancient, part colonial, part futuristic.
Studio MMX was established in 2010 as a collaborative based in Mexico City, focusing on applying a variety of design processes to projects of widely differing sizes. Founded by Jorge Arvizu, Ignacio del R'o, Emmanuel Ram'rez, and Diego Ricalde, the studio prioritizes collaboration and works toward consolidating its experience with a participatory and collective dynamic.ive dynamic.
Mexico City-based architect Montiel conducted research in three housing rehabilitation projects in Mexico City, Veracruz and Zacatecas. HU compiles her observations and subsequent design solutions, serving as a guide to transforming the common spaces of these housing units into habitable, functional space.
The author's firm is responsible for one of Mexico City's tallest skyscrapers, the Reforma Tower (2016), built on the corner of Paseo de la Reforma and R'o Elba. At 57 stories and 807 feet high, the tower's delicate silhouette made a striking addition to the city's skyline. This book explores the process involved in designing and building the tower.tower.
Garc'a stands out among the latest generation of Chilean architects for his sensitive focus on his projects' public impact, expressed in the ways his buildings obey their own internal logic and respect their local cultural, social and spatial contexts. This edition compiles 13 of the architect's designs.signs.
The Juan Soriano Cultural Center and Museum was built in 2018 by architectural firm JSa in Amatitl0/00an (Cuernavaca), Morelos, Mexico. Constructed inside a property surrounded by trees and the flow of water from a little creek, with a garden of 7,366 square meters, the objective of project was to create continuity and connection with the environment and as a green addition to the city of Cuernavaca.ca.
Community Development Center "Los Chocolates" was conceived as part of a program to reactivate a rundown area in Carolina, one of the most traditional neighborhoods of downtown Cuernavaca. The authors analyze the design and realization of the building, from consultations through to construction, and conclude with a look at how the completed building and gardens are being used by the local community..
The Teopanzolco Cultural Center project is the product of a wider initiative to remodel and construct new cultural facilities in Cuernavaca, Mexico, with the aim of making the state of Morelos a national and international cultural destination. Drawings, plans and photographs are included, and the final section of the book features images of the finished building, which now boasts five multipurpose forums and a spacious public patio and viewing platform connecting the archaeological site to the city.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Arquitectura en Maexico 1900-2010: La Construcciaon de la Modernidad: Obras, Diseano, Arte y Pensamiento [Architecture in Mexico 19002010: The Construction of Modernity: Works, Design, Art, and Thought]," held December 2013 to June 2014 at the Museo Antiguo Palacio de Iturbide in Mexico City.
A leading Chilean landscape architect elucidates her guiding compositional principles and offers personal reflections on her craft
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