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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From the collaboration of these two great architects emerged works that, over time, have become true icons of Mexican architecture. Here are three representative creations of this important architectural alliance. This 2018 is also met 50 years of a very special association. It could be said that as a dumbbell these two architects came to determine much of the image of the city, while...
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In this blog post we recommend a text of great interest to both those who study in Mexico City and those who seek to understand it through the written word. This is the Anahuac vision of Alfonso Reyes, a "cauda of images that celebrates pre-Hispanic time and, at the same time, forms a complex perspective of Mexican history and culture." In order to...
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The passage of time, the vestiges of death, and the history of the place, in combination with other references of Jewish cemeteries built in the nineteenth century, were concepts adopted by architect Rossi to create this "metaphysical" space. Aldo Rossi is considered one of the theoretical pillars in the history of contemporary architecture. The Milanese architect (1931-1997), through his work and writings, revealed the...
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The complex of buildings America, projected since the mid-fifties by the architect José Villagrán García, was at the time one of the most important works that were realized in the historical center of the City of Mexico. In it lived different architectural languages, confirming that modernity could dialogue with colonial preexistences. Here we share a little of this story. The Church of Corpus Christi,...
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With an average of 35.000 visitors per year, Arcosanti − an alternative to urban expansion based on Soleri's theory of compact design of cities, and which he baptized with the term of arcology − preserves the essence of its creator, who besides architect and Urban designer was an artist, craftsman and philosopher. This laboratory sought to create a space of harmony between man and nature...
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