“This
exhibition of contemporary Mexican architecture
is a select sampling of projects by prominent
architects representing different generations
and trends, who have in common only the
originality and quality of their work.
Some of them, such as González
de León and Abraham Zabludovsky,
are bringing their lifes work to a close,
with unflagging energy and curiosity;
others, such as Francisco Serrano and
TEN Arquitectos, are at the height of
their careers, with a series of Mexican
and international landmarks already to
their credit; while still others, such
as Alberto Kalach and Javier SÃnchez,
are enriching the contemporary panorama
with their creative experiments.”
The
architects (and firms) whose work will
be on display include Teodoro González
de León, Legorreta+ Legorreta,
Francisco Serrano, TEN Arquitectos, Alberto
Kalach, Alfonso López, Baz and
Javier Calleja, Waldo Higuera + Javier
Sánchez, Felipe Leal, Mauricio
Rocha, Iturbide and Agustín Landa.
Apart
from the curator Miquel Adria, Gomez Pimenta
Jose Castillo will also be visiting India
as part of the exhibition, which will
be on display at the Apeejay Media Gallery
on the 8th and 9th of October, 2005.
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Participating Artists
Teodoro
González de León, 1926
Worked with Le Corbusier in 1948-1949.
Together with Abraham Zabludovsky, he is
the author of the most important Mexican
institutional buildings of the 1970s and
1980s (Colegio de México, Auditorio
Nacional, etc.). His recent works (Torre
Arcos Bosques, Conservatorio Nacional de
Música) are urban landmarks in Mexico
City.
Legorreta+ Legorreta,
1931 (www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Ricardo_Legorreta.html)
Is the Mexican architect best known on the
international scene. Considered a follower
of Luis Barragán, he recaptures aspects
of Colonial architecture, such as the open-air
courtyard and the use of color, to create
oases of serenity in the midst of the urban
disorder (Centro Nacional de las Artes,
the Mexican Pavilion in Hannover).
Francisco
Serrano, 1937
Shares with González de León
and Zabludovsky a preference for a single
material, exposed concrete, for almost all
of his work. He was recently awarded the
Gold Medal in the Bienal of Mexico as author
of the best work of 2001, as well as other
honorable mentions (Universidad Iberoamericana,
Acapulco office building).
TEN
Arquitectos ( www.ten-arquitectos.com)
Is a team made up of Enrique Norten(1954)
and Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta (1961).
Their works make a certain show of technological
conceptions (Televisa-Chapultepec, Hotel
Habita) and have earned them the international
recognition of the first Mies van der Rohe
Prize for Latin America in 1999. They have
just won the competition for the new Brooklyn
Library.
Alberto Kalach, 1960. (www.kalach.com)
Is the most creative and original architect
working in Mexico today. His works are sculpted
spaces that, like those of Barragán,
seek interior light rather than the composition
of façades (GGG House, Augen Laboratories
in Ensenada).
Alfonso López
Baz and Javier Calleja
Together they combine an elegant minimalism
with the finest and most finished materials.
Their polished works are the result of perfectionism
in construction (Teatro de las Artes, Península
apartment building).
Waldo Higuera + Javier Sánchez, 1969.
www.higuera-sanchez.com
Represents the new generation of Mexican
architects who have struck up a dialogue
with the urban context through the use of
exposed concrete and glass (QI apartment
building and gymnasium in Colonia Condesa).
Felipe Leal
He is the Dean of the School of Architecture
of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México (one of the most important
in Latin America) and at the same time a
remarkable cultural promoter on the radio
and in the press. His residential works
for noted Mexican intellectual figures (houses
in Acapulco and Cuernavaca) are achievements
of lightness and transparency in a Mexican
key.
Mauricio Rocha Iturbide
Studied in Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México, is part of the social
program established by the Government of
the city with the aim of supporting rural
areas for which he and his team of Taller
de Arquitectura developed “The Centre
for the Blind” and the San Pablo Oztotepec
Market. He has been awarded with the Gold
Medal of the Federation of Architecture
Colleges FCARM.
Agustín
Landa. 1951. www.landagarcialanda.com/index2.htm
Studied in the Universidad Iberoamericana.
He has been also awarded for his design
of Clients Service Centre for CEMEX.
Architects
coming to India
(Curator) Miquel Adria.
1956. (www.miqueladria.com/ and www.arquine.com
)
Miquel
Adrià, a Catalan architect established
in Mexico, is the author of a number of
books on contemporary Mexican architecture:
México 90s, una arquitectura contemporánea
(Editorial GG, Barcelona, 1996), Abraham
Zabludovsky y la vivienda (Editorial Arquine,
México, 1999), Espacios Mexicanos
(Editorial RM, México, 2000), López
Baz y Calleja (Arquine + RM, México,
2002) and La casa moderna: paradigmas latinoamericanos
de mitad de siglo XX (Editorial GG, Barcelona,
2003). He is the editor of the international
architecture magazine Arquine.
Bernardo
Gómez Pimienta. 1961. (www.bgp.com.mx)
TEN Arquitectos. Their
Works make a certain show of technological
conceptions and have earned them in international
recognition of the first Mies van der Rohe
Prize for Latin America in 1999, Televisa
Chapultepec Building. They won the competition
for the new Brooklyn Library.
Jose Manuel Castillo Olea. 1969. (www.arquitectura911sc.com)
Mr.
Castillo is a principal in the firm Futura
Desarollo Urbano (FDU) in Mexico City. While
a principal at FDU, his efforts have been
focused on the Texcoco Lake Recovery Project
+Mexico City International Airport, the
Master Plan for La Malinche National Park,
Puebla, the Gran Chapultepec Project: A
comprehensive plan for Parque de Chapultepec
in Mexico City, Ciudad Rio: A restoration
of Rio de los Remedios, Neza Verde: Green
corridors for Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl. In
addition to his professional work, Mr Castillo
is a member of the faculty at ITESM Campus
Ciudad de Mexico, School of Architecture
in Mexico City, where he teaches design
and Topics in Urban Planning. He is part
of the INSITE conversation team.
Mr. Castillo received both his MArch II
and his Doctorate from the Graduates Harvard
School of Design. The title of his thesis
"Mexico City: Urbanisms of the Informal"
was advised by Francois Vigier, Mona Serageldin,
William Doebele.
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