Shared Structures. Private Spaces: Housing in Mexico

Description

A case study that analyses the relationship between ideas and houses, this book focuses on 100 years of housing projects in Mexico. This book questions the common tools used to conceive and represent housing projects. It attempts to collate the discourses of different authors in order to trace the meaning of privacy within shared structures. The global phenomenon of massive urbanization that originated in Latin America manifested itself in Mexico at an unseen scale and has since been a testing ground for novel housing and urban solutions. The geographic, social, and economic diversity of Mexico constitute a prime example of the challenges inherent to meeting individual needs in an increasingly crowded world. The drawings and essays comprise new ways of looking at theories and buildings in order to redefine the connection between housing and the city.

Fernanda Canales founded her practice in 2002 committed to architecture, urban design and research. She holds a PhD degree cum laude in Architecture (ETSAM, Madrid), her Bachelor degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana, M xico City and her MA at the ETSAB (Barcelona). She received the Career Award and Best Young Architect in Mexico (CAM) and was awarded fellowships by the National System of Creators and the Young Creator. Other recognitions include: ArchDaily Building of the Year, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture Award, Concrete WAN Awards and IIDA Design Award. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the world. She is author of books such as Vivienda Colectiva en M xico (Gustavo Gili, 2017), Architecture in Mexico 1900-2010 (Arquine, 2013), Central de Arquitectura (Arquine, 2009), and coauthor of Arquitectos del Siglo XX en M xico (Arquine, 2017, 2011) and O Neil Ford Duograph 4: Mexico (The University of Texas at Austin, 2012). She has been a professor of theory and urban design at the Universidad Iberoamericana and UNAM as well as a visiting critic and invited professor abroad.

"A seminal case study that analyzes the relationship between ideas and houses, "Shared Structures, Intimate Space: Housing in Mexico" has a specific focus on the last 100 years of housing projects in Mexico and ranges from the space that lies between bedrooms, to that of streets and of society itself, and from the space that first appears as a graphic representation, to its ultimate role in defining a city. An invaluable work of meticulous and detailed scholarship in the field of architecture and architectural history, "Shared Structures, Intimate Space: Housing in Mexico" is specifically and unreservedly recommended for professional, college and university library Residential Architecture History and Urban Design Studies collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists." --Midwest Book Review "The book does a great job of consolidating an impressive selection of buildings, and includes many projects that offer even the connoisseur something new. " --Architectural Record