Colectivo C733    Mexico   Late in 2019, for the Mexican Ministry of Agrarian, Land and Urban Development (SEDATU), the Faculty of Architecture of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) called a competition for public infrastructure in vulnerable areas, specifical

PPAA   Mexico   South of Mexico City, in Lomas Quebradas, stands this ensemble of eight houses built by the Mexican firm Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados (PPAA). The slope of the site allows access to six of them from Calle Pino, and both pedestrian and vehicula

Manuel Cervantes Céspedes   Mexico   A work of the Mexican firm Manuel Cervantes Estudio, this residence seeks to optimize light and engagement with the outdoors. Wrapped in a ceramic skin, the composition of interlocking volumes adapts to the slope of the site, diluting the boundaries

PPAA Alfonso de la Concha Rojas   Mexico   A work of two Mexican practices – Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados (PPAA) and the office of Alfonso de la Concha Rojas – built this house that engages in dialogue with the privileged forested environment of Tlalpuente. With optimal views and no n

Frida Escobedo   Mexico   The studio led by the Mexican Frida Escobedo has completed this residential block in Colonia Popotla, Mexico City. The project ‘folds’ the balconies inwards as private courtyards. This strategy takes inspiration from the traditional courtyard-house p

Fernanda Canales   Mexico   A project of the Mexican Fernanda Canales, this almost rectangular installation organized around three patios of varying size engages in a dialogue of opposite, with the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum, a 1979-1981 work of Teodoro González de León and

Manuel Cervantes Céspedes   Mexico   West of the Mexican city of Puebla, bordering with rocky land, is this complex whose ultimate purpose is to bring the life of people closer to the life of horses. Its facilities include a 35x70-meter riding arena, a series of stables, and a small con

Fernanda Canales   Mexico   Located three hours by road from Mexico City, the Terreno House simultaneously addresses two theoretically contradictory demands: shelter in the extreme climate of a region where there can be thermal drops and rises of more than thirty degrees in the

Fernanda Canales   Mexico   Located in the State of Mexico, the Bruma House had to address three fundamental questions: the first was how to build in the middle of a forest without felling a single tree; the second was how to open up the home to both the morning and the afterno

Miquel Adrià   The richness of contemporary Mexican architecture comes from its diversity. Diversity as an asset, not as motley supply without identity, but as interwoven generations, styles and affiliations. While in other Latin American countries there is a promi