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.

Echoes of a Land

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Arquine

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

For architecture buffs, here's a dream tour of Mexico: an annotated guidebook to buildings by the Pritzker Prize-winning master Luis Barragan (1902-1988). Following the volume's itinerary through three Mexican cities - Guadalajara, Mexico City and Monterrey - provides not only a chronological survey of Barragan's surviving work, but also a look at three urban realities that provided the context of his work. Cited as an inspiration by contemporary stars Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas, among others, Barragán succeeded in creating his own version of modernism, infused with the warmth and vibrancy of his native Mexico. This second edition updates the previous edition with new photos and a more comprehensive bibliography.

Barragan Guide

Luis Barragán

Ilaria Valente

Federica Zanco

Architecture

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

The subtitle of the book says it all: An Oxymoronic Approach to Architecture. The lively urbanist revolutionaries of Mexico City-based Bunker Arquitectura take a powerfully unconventional approach to architecture, urban planning and design, using oxymorons - inherently contradictory concepts - to create new meaning and find ingenious solutions to eccentric demands. The book itself is a delightful collection of bits and pieces, drawings, cartoons, maps, aerial photos, collages, even completed projects, showing the firm's remarkably diverse approach to problem-solving. Whether they're designing urban plazas, apartment buildings, car showrooms or religious sites, this firm takes nothing for granted. They're not hung up on pristine, modernist beauty, or aiming to be published in the glossy shelter magazines; this bunch is more likely to take on an abandoned project in a slum and turn it into something dynamic.

Stop: Keep Moving - An Oxymoronic Approach to Architecture (English and Spanish Edition)

BNKR Arquitectura

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

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

Anyone who's ever been to a Mexican city has walked through the zocalo - the central plaza - and the public market, watching the rich human interactions that occur in the space. Architect-urban planner Juan Jose Sanchez Aedo is known for designing gleaming commercial centers and shopping malls that serve as the contemporary version of the zocalo and the mercado publico. This richly illustrated monograph features 12 public spaces designed by Sanchez Aedo's firm, Arquitech, in the most elegant districts and suburbs of Mexico City, showing how human interaction can happen in settings new and old.

Arquitech. Juan Jose Sanchez Aedo: Intersections 2010 - 2011 (English and Spanish Edition)

Arquitech

Juan Jose Sanchez Aedo

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

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Arquine publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Arquine