Aidia Studio   Mexico   An initiative of Mexico’s Secretariat for Agrarian, Territorial, and Urban Development (SEDATU), the market in Nicolás Bravo is part of a government-funded program for urban improvement, aimed at addressing scarcities in the country’s less developed

3ME Arquitectura   Mexico   Located on the outskirts of the city, on the banks of the Lerma River, this project revitalizes a natural recreational space in Salvatierra, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, and brings out the 17th-century Batanes Bridge in all its glory. This bri

César Béjar Studio Esencial Studio   Mexico   Located in Telchac Pueto, a town in Mexico’s state of Yucatán, this 894-square-meter mixed-use building rises four levels. The first two will harbor a restaurant, and the upper two, apartments. The facade has a staggered shape on all four sides, evok

Rubén Valdez   Mexico   A circular enclosure, semi-buried in the terrain, fuses symbolically with the landscape of Todos Santos, in the South Baja California Desert. This discreet project, commissioned by Paradero Hotels, harbors a 185-square-meter non-religious ceremony sp

Palma Ana Nuño de Buen   Mexico   Located in Sayulita, in the southern Mexican state of Nayarit, this residential project consists of two homes adapted to the natural slope of the site. They go by one same architectural language and materiality, but respond differently to the topogra

Taller Héctor Barroso   Mexico   In response to the growth of the Escandón neighborhood in Mexico City, this building at Antonio Maceo 8 spans 2,000 square meters. Behind a heritage-listed facade rise four concrete volumes containing thirteen dwellings on five stories, and they make

HEMAA   Mexico   Fifteen minutes from Santa Fe (Mexico City), this pavilion is nestled within the Reserva Santa Fe real-estate development. Right by a lake immersed in the Otomí-Mexica forest, it seeks to be part of the natural surroundings, offering a shelter and ga

Entorno y Contexto   Mexico   A comprehensive plan has cut short the city’s alienation from its river course, formerly a polluted and unsafe environment where other attempts to fix it had failed for lack of an all-round view. At a comfortable distance from the river’s course, a s

Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos   Mexico   The firm Sordo Madaleno designed a new home, in Zapopan, for one of Mexico’s most long-lived football teams, the Guadalajara-based Atlas F.C. Called Academia Atlas, it serves six professional fields and includes facilities for science applied to spor

HW Studio   Mexico   This residential project seeks to convey serenity and calm through the manipulation of light. To do this it carefully explores how to capture light shining from above, generating an enveloping experience. The Emma House is also thought out as an exca

Colectivo C733    Mexico   Helios Park, a baseball field in Ciudad Acuña – in the Mexican state of Coahuila – was clearly in a state of neglect and deterioration. An undertaking of SEDATU (Mexico’s Secretariat for Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development), the refurbishment sough

Rojkind Arquitectos Amasa Estudio   Mexico   The Guadalupe Valley is a winemaking region located in Ensenada, in the Mexican state of Baja California. Here, within the Banyan Tree Veya hotel complex, the Pictograma winery presents twelve radial walls and 22 vaults arranged around a central cour

Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos   Mexico   Set within the Riviera Maya’s Aldea Zamá, in the Mexican city of Tulum, 38 apartments make up this residential complex designed by the firm Sordo Madaleno. The objective of the project was to blend architecture into the natural environment of the sit

rzero estudio   Mexico   Located in the Patria Nueva neighborhood of the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the 22 November Marketplace project is part of a strategic plan for the urban improvement of what is the capital of the Mexican state of Chiapas. The plan includes other works

Manuel Cervantes Estudio   Mexico   Designed in collaboration with the client, the designer James Perse, this house is located in the Mexican state of Nayarit, on the Pacific coast. Independent low pavilions – containing nine rooms, communal spaces, swimming pools, and a spa – are dist

Jorge Urias Studio   Mexico   The DVS 03 project – comprising two blocks that contain 33 dwellings – is part of Villa Serena, a residential development in Ciudad Juárez, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It rises on flat land in the existing brick-clad complex. Analysis of the a

PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados   Mexico   This design was based on a respectful grasp of the nature that inhabits the city of Valle de Bravo. The open upper floor engages directly with the surrounding treetops, giving the project its essence. The dwelling adapts to the natural topography, ab

JSa   Mexico   The firm JSa – Aisha Ballesteros, Benedikt Fahlbusch, Javier Sánchez – has turned a deteriorated forest into an urban park that features an ecotechnologies center for Xalapa-Enríquez, the capital of the Mexican state of Veracruz. Under the auspices o

Colectivo C733    Mexico   San Blas is one of the historical towns of the Riviera Nayarita, which stretches along the coast of the Mexican state of Nayarit. The Secretariat of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development (SEDATU) sponsored the project to adapt the San Blas Pier to se

Colectivo C733    Mexico   On the shore of the Bacalar Lagoon, these free-of-charge public-recreation baths present stepped limestone walls that absorb the elevation changes and form terraced viewpoints. The intervention diffuses the edges with a built complex integrated into

Colectivo C733    Mexico   The historical customs building of San Blas, a port city in the Mexican state of Nayarit, preserved its ground level and an old corridor. Commissioned by the Secretariat for Agrarian, Territorial, and Urban Development (SEDATU), the project aimed to

Fernanda Canales   Mexico   Volumes of different dimensions are interspersed with patios and platforms set at varying levels to accommodate activities for small groups and large assemblies alike. From an auditorium to a daycare, a cafeteria, toilets, and playgrounds, the buildi

Fernanda Canales   Mexico   A pro bono facility gathers medical clinics, lounges, and recreational amenities around a curved courtyard conceived as yet another space intended for the benefit of elderly people. The building maintains a domestic scale through a single level that

Ana Esteban Maluenda   “Mexican Modernist architecture came into its own during the twentieth century… [and] effectively prevailed thereafter. Indeed, the influence of Mexican Modernist architecture… is still alive and well today, shaping the production of current architec

In a year of major elections around the world, Mexico’s on 2 June is among the most important. Its 128 million people will be choosing 500 deputies, 128 senators, and a new president to serve a six-year term, a post for which Claudia Sheinbaum and Xó

Alberto Ballesteros   Humboldt already pointed out the huge inequality that existed in Mexico, which reveals to what extent the problem plagues the history of the country. Many efforts have been made to rebalance the scale, but in the last six years a Federal Plan promote

1924-2022 There was a contradictory and fertile moment when Ibero-American countries wanted to merge the codes and principles of the Modern Movement with vernacular traditions, especially pre-Columbian, in which they found a powerful source of indent

With its 130 million inhabitants, Mexico is the tenth most populated nation in the world, and among Spanish-speaking countries the one with most demographic weight. Add to this its strategic position, its important economy, and its powerful culture,

Para hacer prosperar las áreas con menos recursos de la Ciudad de México, el gobierno regional ha puesto en marcha una red de centros educativos para personas analfabetas o que han abandonado los estudios. En el de la colonia Presidentes, una de las

The video by Edmund Sumner, with music by Rob Lewis, takes us through Plantel Matilde, an art center and residence designed by and for the Mexican artist Javier Marín and carried out by the architect Arcadio Marín in San Antonio Sac Chich, which belo

In 2006, when Google Earth and the democratization of mapping and aerial views were on the rise, Pablo López Luz started exploring photography from aircrafts as the best means to understanding the landscape – urban or natural – as well as the physica

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If a horizontal Babel exists, it has to be the City of Mexico. The biblical Tower of Babel was for a long time the emblem of the cupiditas aedificandi; and architects chose representations of its construction as symbols of their determination to surp

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has blasted Mexico City’s new airport, and with it the signature project of his predecessor, Enrique Peña Nieto. After winning a much disputed competition through his solid experience in infrastructures of this k

Fernanda Canales   Never in the history of Mexico had so many natural disasters happened in so few days. The month of September began with two terrible hurricanes, Irma and Katia, and ended with two devastating earthquakes; the first, on 7 September, occurred with a ma

Neri Oxman   Since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts framing the imagination of designers and builders who have been taught to t

William Curtis   The work of Teodoro González de León spans more than half a century but reveals consistent themes and recurrent forms, and these contribute to a distinctive vocabulary. This personal language draws upon many influences, and in order to situate Gonzál

César Cervantes   Luis Barragán died in 1988, having bequeathed all his personal objects to his friend Óscar Ignacio González, and entrusted another friend, Ignacio Díaz Morales, with the task of deciding what institution to donate his library to. Díaz Morales then se

Recently awarded the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts, Andrés Jaque presented Superpower of Ten at the Jumex Museum in Mexico City. This is a work in process – accompanied by lectures, workshops, and performances – that reinterpr

Fernanda Canales   Gone at 84 years of age, the Mexican architect devoted a lifetime to studying brick as both a structural material and an element of composition.

One of Mexico’s most exceptional architects, Carlos Mijares, passed away on 19 March. Born in the federal capital in 1930, he held a chair at the UNAM, where he had graduated in 1952 and to which he remained closely linked. Endowed with a sharp artis

Fernando Quesada   The Reina Sofía devotes an exhibition to Mathias Goeritz, whose career mixed European avant-garde with the constants of American cultures.

Saturado y cada vez menos competitivo, el Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad México (AICM) necesita una urgente ampliación: 470.000 metros cuadrados en un terreno aledaño a la actual infraestructura, que costarán unos 10.000 millones de dólares. L

Nicolás Cabral   A major exhibition explains the evolution of modernity in Mexico through architecture, design, and magazines.

Fernanda Canales   The architect, designer and public administrator Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, recently demised at age 94, was one of the authors of modern Mexico. 

The series ‘Alta Densidad’ (‘High-density’) by photographer and architect Jorge Taboada (Monterrey, Mexico, 1974) includes aerial photographs taken on the outskirts of sprawling Latin American cities. These images of beautiful fractals, where people

Salpicando las pendientes rocosas del Valle de Guadalupe, una región vitivinícola situada en la Baja California, en México, se posan, al modo de palafitos terrestres, las cabañas diseñadas por la oficina de San Diego Graciastudio para el hotel Endémi

Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano   Disciplina, poder, estatus, género y poscolonialismo

Alejandro Hernández Gálvez   Casa, ciudad, comunidad. Conversaciones en el Museo Amparo

Javier Sánchez Aisha Ballesteros   Ciudad de México  2023  
Arquine   - 124 Pages 

Onnis Luque   Berlín  2021  
The Velvet Cell   - 80 Pages 

Fernanda Canales   Espacios privados

Juan Villoro   Barcelona  2019  
Anagrama   - 416 Pages 

Fernanda Canales   El derecho a la arquitectura

Alejandro Hernández Gálvez Fernanda Canales   Ciudad de México  2017  
Arquine   - 328 Pages 

Ciudad de México  2016  
Arquine   - 240 Pages 

Juan Ignacio del Cueto   Ciudad de México  2014  
Bonilla Artigas   - 396 Pages 

Benjamín Ibarra   México  2014  
UNAM   - 152 Pages 

Xavier Guzmán Urbiola Victor Jiménez Toyo Ito   México  2014  
RM   - 127 Pages 

Fernanda Canales   Mexico City  2013  
Fomento Cultural Banamex   - 600 Pages 

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