Carlos Jiménez   United States   Began in 1983, the architect’s professional studio in Houston is an ongoing project that has seen multiple variations of a live and work environment through the years. Additions, alterations, subtractions, and transformations have comprised an ensemb

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The site for the 10,000 square feet new printing workshop of Houston Fine Art Press was a distressed 39 feet wide by 300 feet long sliver of land located in one of southwest Houston’s industrial warehouse districts. Suggesting a factory-like characte

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Surrounded by the luxuriant landscape that stretches along Buffalo Bayou – the 52-mile waterway, the only one in Houston, connecting the city to the Gulf of Mexico –, the 5,000 square feet Beauchamp House is a major transformation of – and addition t

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Located in a marginal area of the Houston Heights neighborhood, the three-storey wood framed house sits in the middle of its 33 feet wide by 135 feet deep site. Oriented along its predominant south-north axis and prevailing south breeze, the house is

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 4,500 square foot art Lynn Goode gallery is located in a mixed-use neighborhood known as Houston’s ‘gallery corridor.’ Three existing matured oak trees define the two-storey structure, a wood framed building circumscribed within the volume of the

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 5,500 square feet house occupies the entirety of its double lot property becoming a walled-in compound with two singular courtyards. The totally enclosed courtyards underline the client’s desire for absolute privacy. The L-shaped plan is divided

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 60,000 square feet hybrid building is part of a planned expansion set out by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 1990. The L-shaped three-level structure consolidates all of the administrative offices for the entire institution and provides an ar

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 1,200 square foot house occupies the front end of a corner property in one of Houston’s most desired neighborhoods, and within walking distance to the city’s museum district. The project consists of a radical transformation of an original 1920s b

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The house is located on North Boulevard, one of Houston’s most beautiful streets where marvelous giant oak trees have given the place the grandness of canopied urban enclaves. The design solution for the 4,000 square foot house addresses the client’s

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 40,000 square foot building consolidates the various studio and classroom spaces – originally scattered throughout the college campus – into a single unifying structure. Sited at the farthest southeast section of the Williams College campus, the

Carlos Jiménez   United States   The 2,200 square foot house is the most recent transformation of a project that began in 1993. The present design consists of integrating a one story addition to the original house. The resulting L-shaped configuration encloses a lush garden/courtyar

ARCHITECTURE in capital letters, architecture conceived to last long, was mostly sacred architecture. The origins of the discipline are confused with religious rituals. In fact, the first architect of history, Imhotep – who built the pyramid of Saqqa

Jacques Herzog For a young architect at the beginning of his career it is a challenging moment to see the widely admired work of established colleagues, often with a mixture of disdain and admiration. For my generation this moment was in the 1980s, a

Carlos Jiménez   Naming a storm in the Gulf of Mexico during hurricane season can be like playing Russian roulette. Sometimes an endearing, even musically named storm turns lethal in a sudden atmospheric spin. Take Hurricane Rita, for instance, a category 5 tropical

Luis Fernández-Galiano   For Carlos Jiménez, architecture is a poetic craft. Dedicated in body and soul to art and friendship, his buildings are lyrical places of intersection between light and nature, spaces of encounter lit by flashes of color. Infected from a very early a

Stephen Fox   Over thirty years of work, Jiménez has stayed faithful to an efficient yet calm and poetic architecture, one that sets fashions and eccentricities aside. 

Sarah Whiting   O you window, measure of longing, / refilling so many times / as one life spills over and hurries / toward an other life. / You who divide and who bring together, / as changeable as the sea— / a mirror, suddenly, / reflecting and blending / our faces

Arquitectura Viva 21, Koren Architects 145, 2G   Luis Fernández-Galiano   In his foreword to the monograph on the work of Carlos Jiménez that was published by the Catalonian publisher Gustavo Gili (Barcelona, 1991), Aldo Rossi uses the first person to talk about the architect, and both Kurt Forster and Sylvia Lavin, in ess

Carlos Jiménez   When Peter Zumthor received the Pritzker Prize in 2009 in Buenos Aires, the United States ambassador to Argentina gave a reception in his honor. In the midst of the customary toasts, Zumthor thanked the ambassador and ended his remarks by commenting

Carlos Jiménez   An exhibition on RCR Arquitectes at the ICO Museum in Madrid traces an itinerary through the over three decades of shared creativity of its three Catalan members.

Carlos Jiménez   Aranda Pigem Vilalta – RCR Arquitectes – are magicians of mineral and natural discoveries. Their architecture conjures sensual intimations, refractions, and densities from the most elemental material conditions, whether a single sheet of Cor-ten stee

Carlos Jiménez   Pabellón de España es una de esas publicaciones que expresa el entusiasmo, el esfuerzo y los logros detrás de una sobresaliente obra de arquitectura. Se podría examinar este documento de múltiples formas porque amplía, ilumina y explora el significad

Stephen Fox   Tres edificios recientes del estudio de Carlos Jiménez reflejan cómo su obra ha ido cambiando desde los primeros ejemplos domésticos e institucionales construidos en Houston, con los que se dio a conocer en el panorama profesional entre los años oche