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A decade of historical renovations and urban revitalization from a Mexico City developer Real-estate developer ReUrbano has worked for over 10 years on rebuilding and revitalizing buildings and neighborhoods across Mexico, with a particular focus on central Mexico City. Aiming to reinvigorate historical neighborhoods, they work with renowned architectural firms such as Cadaval & Sola-Morales to preserve a building’s structural and aesthetic integrity, while keeping the focus on equitable and sustainable growth. In this way, ReUrbano is able to maintain the “heritage blueprint” of the city while bringing new life to its individual buildings. This publication reviews the past decade of ReUrbano’s work, tracing the firm’s process, from planning to securing investments to the ultimate development of their urban projects. Fully illustrated throughout, the book chronicles a number of completed projects as well as the issues faced by the firm in their 10 years of operation.

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Thoroughly avant-garde, thoroughly Mexican: two firms collaborate on a new office building The Avancer Tower, an office building in San Luis Potosí, is a collaboration between two Mexican architectural firms, Manuel Cervantes Estudio and Macías Peredo Arquitectos, each of whom takes differing approaches toward the same end—to create architecture that blends modern architecture with the Mexican landscape and centuries-old building traditions in Mexico. The Avancer Tower achieves this in its color and form, mirroring the red of the soil, the rock and the rusted steel of the mines in the area. This book documents the project, the construction process and the finished building, guided by themes such as materiality, spatial relationships and scale. The book also demonstrates the contributions of the Avancer Tower and other buildings to the cultural life and value of San Luis Potosí.

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The concrete, geometrically sculptural houses of Mexican architect Rafael Pardo The 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.

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Thirty buildings by renowned Spanish architectural firm Ábalos + Sentkiewicz This book chronicles 30 projects in the US, Europe and Asia by Madrid-based architectural firm Ábalos + Sentkiewicz (founded in 2008). Sketches, diagrams and photographs are shown alongside an interview and an essay exploring the relationship of thermodynamics to their work.

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Since 2015, Mexican architect Francisco 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. His Havre 69 project, created with his partner from architecture firm at103, Julio Amezcua, repurposes a 100-year-old residence for upper-middle-class families into offices, 12 separate residences, a bakery and a restaurant. On the one hand, Pardo exposes large sections of brick and maintains the original tile, while on the other, he builds modernist concrete and glass boxes that frame the original facade. Likewise, the architect's Milan44 project takes an auto-parts store in the warehouse in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City and creates a vertical urban market that brings the storefront street level onto each level of the structure. The architecture of Francisco Pardo reflects a fresh direction in the vast project of building Latin America into the future.

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Contemporary Mexican architecture: a selection of diverse architectural projects from 2017–2018 Volume eight in this series presents a selection of buildings constructed in Mexico between 2017 and 2018. The projects are organized geographically, as well as by typology, style and material. Selected projects provide an overview of contemporary architecture in Mexico.

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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,

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The definitive account of Chipperfield’s much-lauded Mexico City art museum Located 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.

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An icon of Mexican architecture alongside Luis Barragán, Ricardo Legorreta (1931–2011) founded Legorreta Arquitectos in the 1960s, creating what Kenneth Frampton called a"critical regionalism," expressed in the revival of colonial typologies and intensive use of color. This book offers a guide to his main achievements.

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Delve into the award-winning Catalan architecture studio’s unique combination of material craft and avant-garde dynamism Argentinian 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.

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A leading Colombian architect’s inventive conception of tropical architecture’s unique qualities Appraising the “tropical architecture” of Latin America, On Specific Ambiguity, authored by Colombian architect Camilo Retrespo (born 1973), is a manifesto-cum-monograph on the notion of tropical space. Retrespo argues for a form of architecture that “accepts contradiction and ambiguity, as a space, as an attitude: Specific Ambiguity as a double way of thinking and creating an ambivalent, complex and contradictory, imprecise, mestizo, and multireferential architecture.” Retrespo is cofounder (with Juliana Gallego Martinez) of the Medellin-based firm AGENdA, and a large portion of this volume is devoted to a selection of works by the firm, mostly located in Medellin and Mexico. In 2020 AGENdA was selected as one of the most creative, interesting and promising emerging architects by Domus magazine.

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The Mexican architect offers new ideas about real-estate development in underrepresented areas, promoting inclusivity and community participation Caught between a zone of significant vehicular traffic and an area with the highest purchasing power in Cancún, the working-class community in the Mexican neighborhood of Donceles has been largely forgotten by the larger city to which it ostensibly belongs. With this in mind, Mexican architect Juan Carral (born 1976) conceived of Donceles Studios as a multipurpose building representative of the neighborhood's diverse social strata. In this text, Carral further explores the infrastructure of Donceles, noting its rich urban layout and its self-made architectural identity as well as its privileged location and more accessible cost of living. The result is a compelling argument for a new form of experimental real estate development based on participatory strategies and an inclusive ideology. Carral urges his fellow arch

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A ten-year survey of Omar Gandhi Architect—one of Canada’s most influential young firms Celebrating the Canadian architecture firm Omar Gandhi Architect, this publication chronicles the firm’s history through texts, interviews and reproductions of its most important projects. Selected works emphasize Gandhi’s commitment to traditional Canadian construction methods, the use of regional materials and local workmanship.

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Guillermo Hevia García 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. Every Design Conceals an Order compiles 13 of the architect’s designs: built works, projects currently underway and competition entries. Each building is accompanied by a section on the architecture’s imaginary context, the visual references Hevia García mobilized in his working process. The publication also shows Hevia García’s approaches to architectural representation, as he deploys techniques ranging from planimetrics, axonometric projections and models, renders and illustrations. This is an important part of Hevia García’s work, allowing him to give form to his ideas as he explores his intentions and the complexities of the project in order to develop entirely buildable projects.

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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 Rio, Emmanuel Ramirez and Diego Ricalde, the studio prioritizes collaboration and works toward consolidating its experience with a participatory and collective dynamic. The firm develops a range of projects, from designs and installations to architecture and urban planning initiatives, tackling each project as an individual physical, financial and social challenge.This book shows the studio's commitment to understanding and addressing the problems and needs that cities and architecture around the globe are currently facing, and displays the studio's built work, showing the early concepts and processes that have resulted in a timeless architecture that is adapted to its context and creates favorable conditions on varying scales of intervention.

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Chronicling the development of an exciting new cultural space In 2014, Mexican architects Javier Sánchez and Aisha Ballesteros, of the firm JSa, were commissioned to build a new museum in Cuernavaca dedicated to the work of artist Juan Soriano and a contemporary art exhibition program. The given site was a walled-off property in the middle of a dense urban neighborhood, a space the architects wanted to give back to the city. Accordingly, JSa’s Juan Soriano Museum building, a refined concrete structure, takes up only about one quarter of the site: the rest is given over to a large public garden, which functions as a park and passageway for the city as well as a sculpture garden for the museum. This book chronicles the development of the Juan Soriano Museum, from the state-run competition and the winning design submitted by JSa to the construction process and the ways this new cultural space is being used.

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A visual and scholarly deep dive into Cuba's modernist gems of the postwar era In 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.

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Public and residential works from the acclaimed Mexican firmThis book is a compilation of the work of the renowned Mexican architect Augusto Quijano (born 1955), whose work has been developed mainly in the rainforests of the Yucatan peninsula. This publication presents more than 30 emblematic projects from throughout his career, projects for which he has received numerous awards and honorific mentions. The projects are presented with sketches, plans, sections and exclusive photographs of the studio.Among the projects featured in this publication are the Universidad del Mayab, Torre Asemex, Rectory of the Universidad Anáhuac, Parish of the Risen Christ, Casa Angosta, Universidad del Caribe and the Cultural Center of Mérida El Olimp.

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Celebrating Mexican architecture studio S-AR’s trailblazing designs Mexican architecture studio S-AR is celebrated for its experimental buildings in both private and public sectors. This book brings together key works created during the studio’s first 15 years, with drawings, plans and photographs.

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Exemplary residential and public buildings from the acclaimed Guadalajara firmElias Rizo Arquitectos is an architecture studio based in Guadalajara, Mexico, regularly featured in DesignBoom, Arch Daily and elsewhere. Primarily known for its residential buildings, the office develops projects of various scales, ranging from houses, vertical housing and renovations to corporate buildings and urban projects. Elias Rizo Arquitectos was also one of the 18 internationally renowned architects and designers that participated in Ibiza''s first ecologically inspired private villa estate and clubhouse.This book compiles a selection of more than 10 projects executed by the studio between 2006 and 2018. Through photographs and plans, it shows an architecture that is characterized by the meticulous work put into every detail and material selection, creating unique atmospheres for each domestic environment. Among the projects featured in this publication are Casa LA

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A Barcelona architectural firm transforms an abandoned social club into a theater and creative space In 2014, Flores & Prats redesigned Barcelona’s Pau i Justícia building as a theater, creative space and drama school. This publication documents the process, highlighting the historic elements of the existing building that were preserved.

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This is the first monograph on the work of Colombian architect Felipe Uribe, who, in 1990, founded UdeB Arquitectos and has since constructed public projects for four municipalities that have contributed to the urban development and social recovery of his hometown of Medellín.

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The year's innovations in Mexican architecture, from both emerging and celebrated firms This 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.

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An essential guide to Mexico City, surveying more than 180 architectural works from the early 20th century to the present This 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.

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Mexico City–based architect Rozana 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.

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Architectural drawings of 40 houses by Peruvian firm Llosa Cortegana Architects This monograph gathers projects by Lima-based architectural firm Llosa Cortegana Architects. Featuring texts by four architects, the monograph focuses on the planning process and preliminary drawings for 40 of the firm’s modernist houses.

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An exquisite silk-screen monograph on Sandra Calvo’s ephemeral sculpture deconstructing concepts of stability in architecture This publication documents Mexico City–based artist Sandra Calvo’s (born 1977) participatory project which culminates in a model of a house, constructed by a community in Colombia using black and red thread—echoed in the book’s threaded exposed binding.

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LBR&Arquitectos, a firm founded in 1976 by Mexican architect Benjamín Romano, designs and builds architecture projects based on four defining principles: sustainability, structure, high technology and artistic integration. The 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 Río 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 Reforma Tower, narrating how the architects navigated urban regulation in the center of a dense city and considerations of height, circulation, sunlight, wind, ventilation and most importantly, structure (the building is located in a seismic zone). Featuring photographs by Iwan Bann, this volume documents the Reforma Tower project from the first designs to the finished building.

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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 centuryall 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 hou

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The 2017 Pritzker Prize was awarded to RCR Arquitectes, the firm founded in Olot, Spain in 1987 by Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramón Vilalta. Their work is known for its understated elegance and use of different rhythms, weights and materials to create outstanding projects such as the Soulages Museum, the Waalse Krook Media Library and the Sant Antoni-Joan Ollar Library. RCR: Works on Paper explores a central part of the studio’s creative process: drawing. Featuring more than 50 drawings in gouache and ink, the book is organized in three categories: Series, Sketches and Works. The Series section includes a small collection of the firm’s artwork; Sketches shows how they work through drawings to develop the essence and concepts of some of their architectural projects; and Works explores their architectural interests and artistic journeys.

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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.

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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

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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.

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A leading Chilean landscape architect elucidates her guiding compositional principles and offers personal reflections on her craft Chilean landscape architect Teresa Moller (born 1959) looks back at her most significant projects of the last decade, in this very personal volume containing her reflections on her craft and nature. Reflections in the Landscape is organized around two concepts. The first is dedicated to the fundamental components of her landscape architecture: earth, water, trees, fruits and stone; the second, comprised of sections such as Trails, Signs, Essence and Silence, describes her essential compositional principles. In collaboration with architecture writer and curator Jimena Martignoni, Moller offers her thoughts behind the creation of some of her renowned projects, such as Punte Pite in Chile, a dramatic staircase and footpath that descends to Chile’s rocky coast, or Catch the Landscape, a series of travertine blocks that serve as benches along the Venetian waterfront. Also included are projects in China, Italy, Morocco, Germany and more.

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Outstanding examples of Latin American architecture from the last 25 years Arquine, a Mexico City–based digital and print platform, has kept abreast of global architecture for the last quarter century. This volume gathers 25 extraordinary works constructed in Latin America over the last 25 years, highlighting points in the development of the discipline that have withstood the test of time. The 25 architects featured—including Alejandro Echeverri, Alejandro Guerrero G., Andrea Soto Morfín, Camilo Restrepo Ochoa, Carlos Jiménez, Cristóbal Molina Baeza, Elisa Silva, Ernesto Betancourt, Francisco Díaz, Francisco Pardo, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Guillermo Hevia García and Hernán Díaz Alonso—have been invited to choose and write about a project. The projects selected hail from numerous countries and represent an array of architectural styles and philosophies. This compendium expands the discourse surrounding 20th- and 21st-century architecture, analyzing the political and social implications of practicing architecture in Latin America.

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On the pioneering ecological urban strategies of a Spanish public consortium BCNecologia (the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona) is a public consortium consisting of the City Council of Barcelona, the Municipal Council and Metropolitan Area of Barcelona and the Barcelona Provincial Council. BCNecologia has played a key role in defining a new urban model for Barcelona—a model that has placed the city at the forefront of worldwide urban transformations—by designing a superblock and orthogonal bus network strategy for the Catalan capital. BCNecologia: 20 years of the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona looks back at over 100 projects carried out by the Agency in cities across the world. These studies are presented through a tree with five themed branches that describe various sustainability indicators, superblock-based urban regeneration plans, new mobility and public space planning models, and environmental and circular economy-oriented proposals.

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A look at a leading Peruvian architectural firm through 12 exemplary projectsFrom their Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize-winning design for the University of Piura educational facilities to their design for the Place of Remembrance in Lima, Barclay & Crousse''s work binds together the most current advances in technology with designs that center on the quality of life of its dwellers. Their works show how design specific to the conditions of developing countries can inform and be vital to global architectural conversation. Founded in Paris by Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse in 1994, the firm relocated to Lima, Peru, in 2006, pursuing their projects in Europe through Atelier Nord-Sud.This book presents 12 buildings illustrated through sketches, plans and over 120 photographs by Chilean photographer Cristóbal Palma. The volume is a work unto itself that demonstrates the architects'' mastery of space.

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Natural, upcycled and economical materials in buildings by Ecuadorian firm Al Borde “Less Is All” is the motto of Ecuadorian architecture firm Al Borde-founded in 2007 by Pascual Gangotena, David Barragán, Marialuisa Borja and Estevan Benavides. Naming Al Borde one of the top 100 architecture firms in the world in 2019, the editors of Domus wrote: “Convinced that the strength of an architectural project lies in the later autonomy of its users, Al Borde’s design and decision-making process rely on the involvement of the community in all phases of planning and construction, and the systematic exploration of the local context.” The materials they use and the projects they adopt reflect the state of a globalized Ecuador. For example, for their House of the Flying Beds Al Borde refurbished an 18th-century family house by restoring the rammed earth walls, installing tire rubber and recycled glass on the roof and suspending beds above the open-plan, ground-floor living area with eucalyptus trusses, thus maintaining the form of the house but turning the interior into something indubitably modern.

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Recent works by Francisco Serrano, an icon of modern architecture in Mexico Mexico City–based architect Francisco Serrano has been highly regarded throughout his 50-year career, preserving Mexico City’s modern architectural tradition through a number of important projects, including a terminal in Benito Juárez International Airport. This volume collects a variety of projects from the last decade.

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Drawings, LPs and an architectural survey by Mexico City–based artist, architect and musician Lucio Muniain This volume presents three bodies of work by Mexico City–based architect, painter and double bassist Lucio Muniain (born 1969): blue-and-black graphic drawings from 2001 to the present; three LPs from his band Another; and a selection of 30 architectural projects.

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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. The brief posed a significant design challenge: to create a new auditorium complex adjacent to the Teopanzolco archeological site, a ceremonial structure built more than 800 years ago, in the built-up heart of a modern city. This book begins with the background to the Teopanzolco project, starting with the restricted competition won by architects Isaac Broid + Productora. 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.

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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 architects—Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo of the firm TALLER—began with a community consultation to explore what form and function the building should take. These sessions revealed that the community wanted a multipurpose venue containing cultural and recreational facilities. TALLER developed a plan for a flexible, environmentally sustainable structure; despite a relatively small physical footprint, the building incorporates spaces for theater, music, painting, art exhibitions, sports activities and more. TALLER: Community Development Center Los Chocolates analyzes the design and realization of the building, from consultations through to construction, and concludes with a look at how the completed building and gardens are being used by the local community.

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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 programas well as the private sector's pursuit of profit, often at the exp

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Two decades of work from a sustainability-minded Peruvian architectural firm This 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.

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Selected projects from an over-20-year-old Mexico City-based architectural firm This 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.

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