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Nov 2019D.M. National: The Furniture of the Mexican Miracle
The history of industrial design in our country, has its own emergence, development and characters. Among them, the figure of Antonio Ruiz Galindo, whose vision and work led the furniture to strengthen this new discipline related to architecture, interior design and comfort. Antonio Ruiz Galindo was born in Córdoba, Veracruz, in the san sebastian neighborhood in 1897; raised by his mother who had...
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Oct 2019From 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 2019Carlos 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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Oct 2019Absent 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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Oct 2019Benito 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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Oct 2019Architectural 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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Sep 2019Garden 17. The intervention of a poem in green
The formula is simple, two architects from different eras who interpret the same space. The result, on the other hand, is unexpected, mysterious, seductive. In this blog post we will take a walk through the history of this space by the hand of its creators, who, despite the temporal distance, invite us to live the constant amazement by the green expression of architecture. ...
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Sep 2019Ground and underground architecture: Metro Line 1 stations
Mexico City has a buried past and a present that moves and throbs also from its bowels, the subway network, an underworld that from the depths observes the coming and going of inhabitants who come from all points of the great capital. More than a means of transport it is a vital flow: without the metro, the city simply becomes paralyzed. But this was not...
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