Arquine mx (105 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: New. Mexico City's first modernist building: A house by Swiss architects Hans Schmidt and Paul ArtariaThis volume chronicles the iconic double house in Mexico City constructed in 1930 by Swiss architects Hans Schmidt (1938-1972) and Paul Artaria (1892-1959). Built in the booming Colonia Del Valle neighborhood, the house was one of the first modernist buildings in Mexico City.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The first in a new series celebrating the historical and cultural ties between Mexico and Switzerland through architectureIn 2017, as part of the MEXTRÓPOLI Festival, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor (born 1943) was invited to Mexico City to participate in a series of public discussions about architecture and the city. Zumthor in Mexico, the first publication in Arquine's new Swiss Architects in Mexico series, collects the architect's Mexico City conversations in a handsome volume, featuring edited transcriptions of Zumthor's talks with journalist Nicolás Alvarado, artist Pedro Reyes and architects Tatiana Bilbao, Gloria Cabral and Rozana Montiel, among others. In these lively interviews, Zumthor explains his personal approach to architecture as it applies to a wide range of subjects, such as: where design ideas come from, how ideas move from conceptualization to materialization, the importance of the landscape and the natural environment to design and his sense of the responsibility of the architect in the present.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A leading Chilean landscape architect elucidates her guiding compositional principles and offers personal reflections on her craftChilean landscape architect Teresa Moller (born 1959) looks back at her most significant projects of the last decade, in this very personal volume containing her reflections on her craft and nature. Reflections in the Landscape is organized around two concepts. The first is dedicated to the fundamental components of her landscape architecture: earth, water, trees, fruits and stone; the second, comprised of sections such as Trails, Signs, Essence and Silence, describes her essential compositional principles. In collaboration with architecture writer and curator Jimena Martignoni, Moller offers her thoughts behind the creation of some of her renowned projects, such as Punte Pite in Chile, a dramatic staircase and footpath that descends to Chile's rocky coast, or Catch the Landscape, a series of travertine blocks that serve as benches along the Venetian waterfront. Also included are projects in China, Italy, Morocco, Germany and more.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Since 2015, Mexican architect Francisco Pardo has run his own practice in fast-growing and fast changing Mexico City. His projects have reflected how Mexico is transforming the idea of the Latin American city: part ancient, part colonial, part futuristic. His Havre 69 project, created with his partner from architecture firm at103, Julio Amezcua, repurposes a 100-year-old residence for upper-middle-class families into offices, 12 separate residences, a bakery and a restaurant. On the one hand, Pardo exposes large sections of brick and maintains the original tile, while on the other, he builds modernist concrete and glass boxes that frame the original facade. Likewise, the architect's Milan44 project takes an auto-parts store in the warehouse in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City and creates a vertical urban market that brings the storefront street level onto each level of the structure. The architecture of Francisco Pardo reflects a fresh direction in the vast project of building Latin America into the future.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. On the pioneering ecological urban strategies of a Spanish public consortiumBCNecologia (the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona) is a public consortium consisting of the City Council of Barcelona, the Municipal Council and Metropolitan Area of Barcelona and the Barcelona Provincial Council. BCNecologia has played a key role in defining a new urban model for Barcelona-a model that has placed the city at the forefront of worldwide urban transformations-by designing a superblock and orthogonal bus network strategy for the Catalan capital. BCNecologia: 20 years of the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona looks back at over 100 projects carried out by the Agency in cities across the world. These studies are presented through a tree with five themed branches that describe various sustainability indicators, superblock-based urban regeneration plans, new mobility and public space planning models, and environmental and circular economy-oriented proposals.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The Mexican architect offers new ideas about real-estate development in underrepresented areas, promoting inclusivity and community participation Caught between a zone of significant vehicular traffic and an area with the highest purchasing power in Cancún, the working-class community in the Mexican neighborhood of Donceles has been largely forgotten by the larger city to which it ostensibly belongs. With this in mind, Mexican architect Juan Carral (born 1976) conceived of Donceles Studios as a multipurpose building representative of the neighborhood's diverse social strata. In this text, Carral further explores the infrastructure of Donceles, noting its rich urban layout and its self-made architectural identity as well as its privileged location and more accessible cost of living. The result is a compelling argument for a new form of experimental real estate development based on participatory strategies and an inclusive ideology. Carral urges his fellow architects to approach real estate development with a wider lens, keeping in mind a long-term vision of the city we want to have.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In praise of what could have been: 15 unbuilt projects from the Mies van der Rohe Award-winning firmFounded in 1986 in Mexico City by Enrique Norten, TEN Arquitectos subsequently opened offices in New York and Miami and built its reputation as one of North America's leading firms. TEN Arquitectos is known for its broad range of projects, including cultural institutions, residential buildings and mixed-use developments, and has won recognitions such as the Mies van der Rohe Award and the AIA International Design Award.Ideas in Transit compiles 15 unbuilt projects from TEN Arquitectos, selected by Enrique Norten in collaboration with Pedro Gadanho, curator of the accompanying exhibition held at the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City. Including hand-drawn diagrams and sketches as well as an extended flap with a timeline of the unbuilt works, the book pays homage to the firm's creative potency when liberated from concessions made to clients, financial constraints, time pressures or worksite complications.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Held in the American South, this lecture series by Latin American architects aims to expand the scope of North American design curricula Published with The University of Tennessee.Hosted at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, this series of lectures by architects from the Global South spotlights professionals from Latin America who propose alternative approaches to architecture, explore design through diverse geographic lenses and promote the optimal use of resources to maximize impact.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Thoroughly avant-garde, thoroughly Mexican: two firms collaborate on a new office buildingThe Avancer Tower, an office building in San Luis Potosí, is a collaboration between two Mexican architectural firms, Manuel Cervantes Estudio and Macías Peredo Arquitectos, each of whom takes differing approaches toward the same end-to create architecture that blends modern architecture with the Mexican landscape and centuries-old building traditions in Mexico. The Avancer Tower achieves this in its color and form, mirroring the red of the soil, the rock and the rusted steel of the mines in the area.This book documents the project, the construction process and the finished building, guided by themes such as materiality, spatial relationships and scale. The book also demonstrates the contributions of the Avancer Tower and other buildings to the cultural life and value of San Luis Potosí.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Mexico City-based architect Rozana Montiel conducted research in three housing rehabilitation projects in Mexico City, Veracruz and Zacatecas. HU compiles her observations and subsequent design solutions, serving as a guide to transforming the common spaces of these housing units into habitable, functional space.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Bilingual. The concrete, geometrically sculptural houses of Mexican architect Rafael PardoThe buildings of Mexican architect Rafael Pardo are almost sculptural-concrete prisms intersecting to form domestic spaces. This monograph presents eight projects built in Xalapa, Veracruz, including photographs, original sketches and an interview by Miguel Adrià. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. Cutting-edge examples of urban architecture from renowned firms across Mexico CityPublished with Colegio de Arquitectos de la Ciudad de México.The sixth edition of Mexico City's architecture biennial celebrates the best built works, research projects and publications completed between June 2021 and May 2023 throughout the country and produced in the greater metropolitan area.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. "Gonzalez has lately emerged as one of Miami's most influential young architects." -Raul A. Barreneche, the New York TimesSpecializing in the design of museum and gallery spaces, hospitality, commercial retail and residential projects, Miami-based Rene Gonzalez Architects also endeavors to develop solutions to rising sea levels in coastal communities. This volume compiles drawings and photographs of a residence on Prairie Avenue in Miami designed by the firm in 2018. Inspired by red mangrove trees, the dwelling hovers entirely above the ground plane. A lush garden covers most of the site and absorbs enormous quantities of water. Charles Renfro celebrates the building thus: "Is this blown-up modernism, a house made of fragments and gaps, also a new gay architecture? If so, it is but one of the many ways this compact complex house performs, one that in so many ways pulls modernism forward into a brave new world of sensuality, sexuality and lifestyle. Within it, social progress has found a new architecture.".…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Bilingual. Nine design firms in discussion about the future of Colombian architectureAndina is a joint initiative started by a group of nine emerging Colombian architecture and design studios based in various cities, each with a shared focus on the betterment of their profession and an approach to construction that prioritizes diversity. The book presents a selection of current projects from each studio and aims to foster open dialogues about contemporary Colombian architecture. The project was inspired after the Covid-19 pandemic sparked a group conversation about projects that had been put on hold. Over a period of two years of intermittent lockdowns, these conversations, mostly held by video conference, provided an opportunity to analyze how international media and publications had failed to focus on Colombia's rich architectural scene of the past two decades. The nine studios comprising this collective represent a newly emerging generation of contemporary architecture in Columbia that is not to be overlooked.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Celebrating Mexican architecture studio S-AR's trailblazing designs Mexican architecture studio S-AR is celebrated for its experimental buildings in both private and public sectors. This book brings together key works created during the studio's first 15 years, with drawings, plans and photographs.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In praise of what could have been: 15 unbuilt projects from the Mies van der Rohe Award-winning firmFounded in 1986 in Mexico City by Enrique Norten, TEN Arquitectos subsequently opened offices in New York and Miami and built its reputation as one of North America's leading firms. TEN Arquitectos is known for its broad range of projects, including cultural institutions, residential buildings and mixed-use developments, and has won recognitions such as the Mies van der Rohe Award and the AIA International Design Award.Ideas in Transit compiles 15 unbuilt projects from TEN Arquitectos, selected by Enrique Norten in collaboration with Pedro Gadanho, curator of the accompanying exhibition held at the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City. Including hand-drawn diagrams and sketches as well as an extended flap with a timeline of the unbuilt works, the book pays homage to the firm's creative potency when liberated from concessions made to clients, financial constraints, time pressures or worksite complications.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Thoroughly avant-garde, thoroughly Mexican: two firms collaborate on a new office buildingThe Avancer Tower, an office building in San Luis Potosí, is a collaboration between two Mexican architectural firms, Manuel Cervantes Estudio and Macías Peredo Arquitectos, each of whom takes differing approaches toward the same end-to create architecture that blends modern architecture with the Mexican landscape and centuries-old building traditions in Mexico. The Avancer Tower achieves this in its color and form, mirroring the red of the soil, the rock and the rusted steel of the mines in the area.This book documents the project, the construction process and the finished building, guided by themes such as materiality, spatial relationships and scale. The book also demonstrates the contributions of the Avancer Tower and other buildings to the cultural life and value of San Luis Potosí.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Bilingual. A ten-year survey of Omar Gandhi Architect-one of Canada's most influential young firmsCelebrating the Canadian architecture firm Omar Gandhi Architect, this publication chronicles the firm's history through texts, interviews and reproductions of its most important projects. Selected works emphasize Gandhi's commitment to traditional Canadian construction methods, the use of regional materials and local workmanship.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Across Colombia's tropic regions, Vélez reimagines sustainable, community-based collective living as a means for social equityPublished with Mesa Estándar.With more than 30 years of professional practice, Colombian architect Ana Elvira Vélez (born 1966) believes in conscious and creative design as a way to bring equity to the country's varying tropical landscapes. This monograph surveys her collective housing projects in the department of Antioquia and beyond.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Bilingual. The concrete, geometrically sculptural houses of Mexican architect Rafael PardoThe buildings of Mexican architect Rafael Pardo are almost sculptural-concrete prisms intersecting to form domestic spaces. This monograph presents eight projects built in Xalapa, Veracruz, including photographs, original sketches and an interview by Miguel Adrià. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. A decade of historical renovations and urban revitalization from a Mexico City developerReal-estate developer ReUrbano has worked for over 10 years on rebuilding and revitalizing buildings and neighborhoods across Mexico, with a particular focus on central Mexico City. Aiming to reinvigorate historical neighborhoods, they work with renowned architectural firms such as Cadaval and Sola-Morales to preserve a building's structural and aesthetic integrity, while keeping the focus on equitable and sustainable growth. In this way, ReUrbano is able to maintain the "heritage blueprint" of the city while bringing new life to its individual buildings.This publication reviews the past decade of ReUrbano's work, tracing the firm's process, from planning to securing investments to the ultimate development of their urban projects. Fully illustrated throughout, the book chronicles a number of completed projects as well as the issues faced by the firm in their 10 years of operation. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. Illustrated. Guillermo Hevia García stands out among the latest generation of Chilean architects for his sensitive focus on his projects' public impact, expressed in the ways his buildings obey their own internal logic and respect their local cultural, social and spatial contexts. Every Design Conceals an Order compiles 13 of the architect's designs: built works, projects currently underway and competition entries. Each building is accompanied by a section on the architecture's imaginary context, the visual references Hevia García mobilized in his working process. The publication also shows Hevia García's approaches to architectural representation, as he deploys techniques ranging from planimetrics, axonometric projections and models, renders and illustrations. This is an important part of Hevia García's work, allowing him to give form to his ideas as he explores his intentions and the complexities of the project in order to develop entirely buildable projects.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Architectural drawings of 40 houses by Peruvian firm Llosa Cortegana Architects This monograph gathers projects by Lima-based architectural firm Llosa Cortegana Architects. Featuring texts by four architects, the monograph focuses on the planning process and preliminary drawings for 40 of the firm's modernist houses.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Delve into the award-winning Catalan architecture studio's unique combination of material craft and avant-garde dynamismArgentinian architect Ricardo Flores (born 1965) and Spanish architect Eva Prats (born 1965) began their artistic partnership with the foundation of their studio in Barcelona in 1998. Since its conception, Flores and Prats has operated according to a design ethos that fuses craft with academia, approaching research and scholarship as a living practice that must result in the responsibility to make and to build. The studio has taken on a variety of projects with diverse functions in social housing, public spaces and university workshops. This volume compiles photography and analysis of Flores and Prats' best-known projects, such as the Museum of the Mills, Campus Microsoft Italia, and the New Theater Sala Beckett. Also included are examinations of the studio's experiments with portability, their use of film as a vehicle for architectural documentation and their recent menus of edible architecture created for special exhibitions in Barcelona and Copenhagen. Readers are guided through every stage of a single project's evolution from early sketches to detailed models to final construction. In addition to reproductions of such process material, Thought by Hand includes writing by a variety of artists influenced by Flores and Prats, including the Sala Beckett theater's director Toni Casares and renowned urban planner Manuel de Solà-Morales.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. Bilingual. An exquisite silk-screen monograph on Sandra Calvo's ephemeral sculpture deconstructing concepts of stability in architectureThis publication documents Mexico City-based artist Sandra Calvo's (born 1977) participatory project which culminates in a model of a house, constructed by a community in Colombia using black and red thread-echoed in the book's threaded exposed binding.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Bilingual. A ten-year survey of Omar Gandhi Architect-one of Canada's most influential young firmsCelebrating the Canadian architecture firm Omar Gandhi Architect, this publication chronicles the firm's history through texts, interviews and reproductions of its most important projects. Selected works emphasize Gandhi's commitment to traditional Canadian construction methods, the use of regional materials and local workmanship.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. A visual and scholarly deep dive into Cuba's modernist gems of the postwar eraIn the decades after World War II, from just prior to the revolution and into the mid-1980s, modernist architecture blossomed in Cuba, attracting both native talent and leading international architects from Europe. Havana Modern examines Cuban modernism's highlights with a wealth of archival materials, photos and new scholarship. Edited by Rubén Gallo-author of Mexican Modernity (2005), Freud's Mexico (2010) and Proust's Latin Americans (2014)-the volume is arranged in 10 chapters authored by current and former Princeton faculty members and graduate students. These essays, which arose from seminars organized by Gallo and historian Beatriz Colomina, examine Max Abramovitz's American Embassy; Richard Neutra's De Schultess House; Martín Domínguez Esteban, Miguel Gastón and Emilio del Junco's Radiocentro; Mies van Der Rohe's office building for Ron Barcardí S.A.; Vittorio Garatti, Roberto Gottardi and Ricardo Porro's National Art Schools for Havana; Mario Girona's Coppelia Ice-cream parlor and park; Vittorio Garatti, Hugo D'Acosta and Sergio Baroni's Cuban Pavilion at Expo 67; Antonio Quintana and Alberto Rodriguez's "Edificio Experimental"; and Aleksandr Grigorievich Rochegov's USRR Embassy. Havana Modern draws on history, politics, culture, literature and film to elucidate this outstandingly rich era in architectural history.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Studio MMX was established in 2010 as a collaborative based in Mexico City, focusing on applying a variety of design processes to projects of widely differing sizes. Founded by Jorge Arvizu, Ignacio del Rio, Emmanuel Ramirez and Diego Ricalde, the studio prioritizes collaboration and works toward consolidating its experience with a participatory and collective dynamic. The firm develops a range of projects, from designs and installations to architecture and urban planning initiatives, tackling each project as an individual physical, financial and social challenge.This book shows the studio's commitment to understanding and addressing the problems and needs that cities and architecture around the globe are currently facing, and displays the studio's built work, showing the early concepts and processes that have resulted in a timeless architecture that is adapted to its context and creates favorable conditions on varying scales of intervention.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The go-to reference for Mexico's newest, best and most successful architectural projects and the firms behind themThis latest volume in the biannual publication series highlights the most innovative and impressive architecture projects across Mexico for the years 2023 and 2024. It provides a general overview of Mexico's architectural scene, documenting changes in trends in recent years.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Outstanding examples of Latin American architecture from the last 25 yearsArquine, a Mexico City-based digital and print platform, has kept abreast of global architecture for the last quarter century. This volume gathers 25 extraordinary works constructed in Latin America over the last 25 years, highlighting points in the development of the discipline that have withstood the test of time. The 25 architects featured-including Alejandro Echeverri, Alejandro Guerrero G., Andrea Soto Morfín, Camilo Restrepo Ochoa, Carlos Jiménez, Cristóbal Molina Baeza, Elisa Silva, Ernesto Betancourt, Francisco Díaz, Francisco Pardo, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Guillermo Hevia García and Hernán Díaz Alonso-have been invited to choose and write about a project. The projects selected hail from numerous countries and represent an array of architectural styles and philosophies.This compendium expands the discourse surrounding 20th- and 21st-century architecture, analyzing the political and social implications of practicing architecture in Latin America.…