Who does not keep among their memories, the figure of a concrete animal, of those who splashed the parks with its cheerful abstraction? The playgrounds in modern Mexico were part of architectural and artistic projects motivated by the research and consideration of its users, children, and materialized the paradigmatic optimism that characterized the Modern Movement for designing a better society since its inception. This book...
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This year is special. It commemorates the 50th anniversary of the architect Mies Van der Rohe, and celebrates the 90th anniversary of the Barcelona Pavilion, a work whose authorship he shares with the architect and designer Lilly Reich. Therefore, in this edition we will commemorate these events with history this building, modern icon and symbol of the revaluation of women in the history of architecture....
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Banking architecture is a little-talked about genre. However, in the 1930s, it was a notorious field of experimentation. Its constructions had to express the prosperity, stability and even a certain luxury that legitimized and supported the owners of the institution: a modern building with state-of-the-art technology would give greater confidence to users and shareholders. This is the case we will review below. Abdelnour Aboumrad...
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This year he was awarded the famed Pritzker Prize for Architecture to japanese master Arata Isozaki. Rather than talking about his works, let us know the ideas behind them to approach a fundamental concept of architecture, its temporality. The Pritzker Prize for architecture follows the logic of double reasoning. On the one hand, it serves as a lighthouse that illuminates new directions, paths or...
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Let us know, through the history of this school, how it was the process of materializing the so-called "socialist education" that President Lázaro Cardenas promoted and which served as a project of integration between state and school, between the nation and its formation Cultural. In December 1934, the Union Congress approved the proposal of the Revolutionary National Party to amend constitutional article 3. This...
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Bright and dressed in Mexican rose, Casa Estudio Luis Barragán celebrates the 15th year of its declaration as a World Heritage Site. For the occasion, a photographic exhibition was opened in the National Museum of Architecture that the public can visit for free. Let's get to know, at the pace of waltzes, this iconic work of Modern Architecture in Mexico. Marshall Berman, an American...
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An expanding supermarket chain, a programmatic need and the presence of a recognized architect, are the pillars of this history that reminds us that commercial architecture takes up "the same principles of Pompeyan architecture: living towards the interior." Surely for many of our readers the word Sumesa is unknown, however this self-service company was one of the most important in Mexico, especially during the...
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Richard Neutra in Puerto Rico or Puerto Rico in Richard Neutra? It is the subject of Katherine Ettinger's most recent book, which tells the story of a reciprocal appropriation between architecture and environment. At the same time, it teaches us a little-known facet of this famous Austrian-American architect. To be said by the British historian Eric Hobsbawm, Puerto Rico's history can be seen as...
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