Shared Structures. Private Spaces
Housing in Mexico
Published on 15. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-945150-88-3 (ISBN)
Description
The geographic, social, and economic diversity of Mexico constitute a prime example of the challenges inherent to meeting individual needs in an increasingly crowded world. The drawings and essays comprise new ways of looking at theories and buildings in order to redefine the connection between housing and the city. This research is centered in drawings of 70 housing projects, creating a common language highlighting different attempts at reinventing the house not as isolated battles but as part of a strategy for reimagining how we want to live. This book showcases the pivotal voices that have shaped major cities through housing projects and explores how policies and ideas transform into built form, and how in turn buildings shape societies.
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Edition
English
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
993 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-945150-88-3 (9781945150883)
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Fernanda Canales founded her practice in 2002 committed to architecture, urban design and research. She holds a PhD degree cum laude in Architecture (ETSAM, Madrid), her Bachelor degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana, México City and her MA at the ETSAB (Barcelona). She received the Career Award and Best Young Architect in Mexico (CAM) and was awarded fellowships by the National System of Creators and the Young Creator. Other recognitions include: ArchDaily Building of the Year, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture Award, Concrete WAN Awards and IIDA Design Award. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the world. She is author of books such as Vivienda Colectiva en México (Gustavo Gili, 2017), Architecture in Mexico 1900-2010 (Arquine, 2013), Central de Arquitectura (Arquine, 2009), and coauthor of Arquitectos del Siglo XX en México (Arquine, 2017, 2011) and O¿Neil Ford Duograph 4: Mexico (The University of Texas at Austin, 2012). She has been a professor of theory and urban design at the Universidad Iberoamericana and UNAM as well as a visiting critic and invited professor abroad.