Monthly Archives: October 2019


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Oct 2019

From calacas, xoloitzcuintles, dreads and engineers

There was death one day talking to Dolores art, xolos, and flowers: the passions he had. The surprised calaca not as he stayed and Dolores took to know about his life. Oh! that skinny tilica now visit the Museum to see ICA's history and Dolores Olmedo. Since its birth in 1994, El Museo Dolores Olmedo has maintained the tradition of presenting its visitors with an...

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Oct 2019

Carlos Obregón Santacilia and Pablo Neruda

The two trajectories of these creators in appearance very different, coincided in the forty, in the Mexican cultural environment, to achieve each, great moments in their professional lives. This relationship of work and friendship remains as a witness, a book, the result of one of the most extraordinary editorial processes of the time. Go these lines that cross architecture and poetry to tell us a...

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15

Oct 2019

Absent strangers: children's gardens in the history of contemporary Mexican architecture

The importance of the so-called "early childhood", defined by UNESCO as the "period from birth to eight years of age, is now undeniable, which is a unique moment of growth in which the brain develops remarkably".  During this stage, children are given a greater influence from their environments and contexts, so the spaces designed for them are of paramount importance. But this was not always...

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08

Oct 2019

Benito Juarez School and the cement boom in the 1920s

The history of cement, a material so common today, teaches us lessons from our own constructive tradition, so its use in the Benito Juárez School is also an illustrator. Not only did it represent an achievement of the Revolution in education, but it was also the first major building to start the government's push for the cement industry during the 1920s. Let us learn from...

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01

Oct 2019

Architectural contests: questions and difficulties in the mid-1940s

If there is a territory of the controversial architectural work, longed for and at the same time seriously questioned, this is undoubtedly that of the contests. In the words of the Argentine architect Roberto Fernández "Architectural competitions represent the combination of the art of choosing and the trade of being chosen" while the Canadian designer Bruce Mau warns that you should not participate in them,...

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