Echoes of a Land features contributions by 21 participants, architects and designers as a proposal for the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition in 2018. Curated by Mexican architect Gabriela Etchegaray, the pavilion integrates the work of emerging and established Mexican architects.

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An authoritative, two-volume compendium of 20th- and 21st-century Mexican architecture 
This expanded two-volume edition of Arquine’s 2013 publication examines the architectural styles that have taken place in Mexico during the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. The book is divided into six periods: the beginning of the century (1900–24); modernity (1925–39); the heroic period (1940–68); new monumentality (1969–89); end of the century (1990–99); and the first decade of the 21st century (2000–10). 
Architects include: Federico Mariscal, José Villagrán, Vicente Mendiola, Guillermo Zárraga, Roberto Álvarez Espinosa, Manuel Amábilis, Juan O’Gorman, Manuel Ortiz Monasterio, Bernardo Calderón, Luis Ávila, Juan Segura, Carlos Obregón Santillana, Luis Barragán, Enrique del Moral, Augusto Álvarez, Mario Pani, Salvador Ortega, Luis Ramos Cunningham, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Rafael Mijares, Jorge Campuzano, Ricardo Legorreta, Noé Castro, Ramiro Alatorre, Carlos Vargas, Teodoro González de León, Abraham Zabludovsky, Legorreta + Legorreta, Javier Sordo Madaleno, TEN Arquitectos and Luis Vicente Flores, among others.

Architecture in Mexico, 1900–2010

History & Criticism

The story of Mexican architecture in the second half of the 20th century cannot be told without the work of Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, whose complete works are collected in this definitive book. His banks, civic buildings, museums, corporate headquarters and office complexes have contributed to defining the urban texture of a large part of Mexico. Architect, urbanist, painter and sculptor, Gonzalez de Leon is also a tireless promoter of architecture as a cultural phenomenon. This third edition of his Collected Works compiles more than 60 years of militant commitment to the discipline, giving rise to a language as modern as it is timeless. Essays by William J.R. Curtis and Miquel Adria shed light on the evolution and complexity of the architect's work. Also includes texts by the architect himself.

Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon: Collected Works (English and Spanish Edition)

William J.R. Curtis

Miquel Adrià

Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon

An icon of Mexican architecture alongside Luis Barrag n, Ricardo Legorreta (1931-2011) founded Legorreta Arquitectos in the 1960s, creating what Kenneth Frampton called a"critical regionalism," expressed in the revival of colonial typologies and intensive use of color. This book offers a guide to his main achievements.

Legorreta Guide

Architecture

Can the excitement and genius of Mexican architecture in the 20th century possibly be condensed into 300 pages? This indispensable reference work does it, in a brilliantly conceived guide weaving together the century's 100 top architects and their best-known projects. With over 800 thumbnail photographs, timelines and other graphics, alphabetically organized by architect, editors Fernanda Canales and Alejandro Hernandez Galvez offer more than a historical retrospective. The intention of these influential architect-academics is to create dynamic connections into a 21st century reading of the amazing characters and triumphs of Mexican modern architecture. Architects, libraries, historians and students will see individual projects and larger trends in a new light through this inventive work.

100 X 100: Arquitectos del Siglo XX En Mexico (Spanish Edition)

Fernanda Canales

Alejandro Hernández Gálvez

From the iconic modernism of Luis Barragán to the brightly colored postmodern forms of Ricardo Legoretta, this important historical document deals with the plurality of architectural styles and voices in Mexico during the 20th and early 21st centuries. Referencing French philosopher Michel Foucault s idea of effective history in which knowledge does not encompass absolute truths delivered in traditional historical texts but rather fragments, shortening its vision to the things nearest it, Architecture in Mexico offers a new reading of the diverse interests at stake in historical Mexican architecture its production and its subsequent reception. The volume pursues comprehension beyond built forms and closer to the ideas (and ideologies) that gave rise to them.

Architecture in Mexico 1900-2010: The Construction of Modernity: Works, Design, Art, and Thought

Fernanda Caneles

Oscar Hagerman

Miguel Andriá

First monograph documents the work of this stud y architecture in Barcelona. Collect your work in areas such as rehabilitation, social housing , public space , participation and collaboration with local artis ts, but also their research as teachers in various schools of architecture world wide . Written with Michael Adrian Manuel de Solà -Morales , Toni Casares and Mi ralda and a critical essay by Juan José Lahuerta .

Thought by Hand: The Architecture of Flores & Prats

Flores, Ricardo

The definitive account of Chipperfield’s much-lauded Mexico City art museum 
Located on a triangular site within the Polanco area of Mexico City, the internationally acclaimed Museo Jumex exhibits a sizable collection of contemporary art―Colección Jumex―and is part of a wider urban redevelopment. The extremely individual quality of the neighboring buildings overrides any attempt to integrate the museum with its surroundings and instead allows for a rare architectural opportunity: the construction of a building that is simultaneously distinct from and complementary to its larger context. 
This publication delineates the design and construction of the museum, as conceived by the David Chipperfield Architects―the group behind New York’s Rolex Building (2019), among numerous other international developments. Museo Jumex features photographs by Iwan Baan, texts by architecture scholars Miquel Adrià, Patrick Charpenel, Luis Fernández-Galiano and Beatrice Galilee, as well as a conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and David Chipperfield on the conceptual basis of the project.

David Chipperfield Architects: Museo Jumex

The Ciudad Satélite towers, inaugurated in 1958, were built to signal a large-scale urban development in Mexico City, and were the product of a collaboration between Mathias Goeritz and Luis Barragán, who in turn were advised by Jesús Reyes Ferreira. This book describes the story of these landmark structures, with two texts by eminent specialists on this topic, Federica Zanco and Fernando González Gortázar, who take us back in time and reveal the great artistic and social value of Las Torres de Ciudad Satélite, which was to become an urban sculpture that provided a frame of reference for Mexico City in the 1960s. The images in this book reveal how the project developed over time, from its construction to the present, and also shows various publications and designs that were inspired by these remarkable towers.

Las Torres de Ciudad Satélite

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