As a portrait and retrospective of the forces that have changed Mexico’s cities and daily life, this volume presents the

The prominence of the natural landscape and the urban environment in suburban and urban settings is pivotal to the design of these projects, revealing diverse emphases that offer us distinct and interesting perspectives. Seeking views of the natural landscape or bringing it into the interior; aiming to break down building isolation and seek community, connection, and dialogue between private and public common spaces; harmonizing the contrast between the traditional and the contemporary; respecting and leveraging sloping topography; recycling, highlighting, and contrasting the expressive and textural characteristics of traditional materials, and

Since architecture is essentially space, the language used by its architects organizes it, relates it, and qualifies its boundaries, thereby qualifying the space itself. The organization of interior space follows different patterns; at times it emphasizes compactness, at others, it expands or wraps around a central space, recovers traditions, or initiates new interpretations, bringing the volume to life. It alters conventional functional approaches, seeks the poetics of the path, and includes surprise. Depending on the location, the volume is compact or extended, adapts to the topography, merges with or distinguishes itself from its surroundings, but never ignores the landscape. In the city,

The selection and documentation of unique pieces situated across a wide range of locations not only enables an attentive morphotypological approach to the construction of an idea distinct from the compact model found in the historic center.

Here, proposals such as those by DSGN AGNC or those by Carlo Ratti and the MIT Senseable City Lab appear,

This issue of arq not only analyzes this condition but also seeks to interrogate it through architecture. Anna Puigjaner presents collective kitchens from different parts of the world. Saskia Sassen analyzes the massive inequalities we see today. Keller Easterling proposes a mobile application to generate large-scale change.

Baraona and Reyes show us the energy costs involved in the production of

This invisibility makes them difficult to address from the perspective of architecture. Perhaps as a way to "architecturalize" them, Keller Easterling calls them "matrix space"; in doing so, she makes it clear that, even when they are intangible, infrastructures are indeed located in space and, as a matrix, they always operate in

In the portfolio, we see an auction in which dust is auctioned off. The conversation among the members of The Architecture Lobby explores different concepts of value linked to architecture as a profession. The project by DS+R & Rockwell Group allows us to see undeclared value transfers. Barclay & Crousse show that architectural value and land value are not incompatible. Shvartzberg investigates the creation of a real estate appraisal index. Pérez and Quintanilla demonstrate that a new intervention can revalue heritage. Gil

The featured high-rise buildings, primarily intended for office and residential use, seek aesthetic sensibility, a relationship with their surroundings, flexibility, and ecological achievements through energy efficiency, ease of maintenance, the connection of their interior spaces to public spaces, clear structural and construction systems, flexibility and adaptability to continuous change, and the use of digital technology, with diverse formal solutions that move away from, rather than toward, standard solutions like modular repetition of parts or the unifying curtain wall. Their formal expressions, scale, and materials give them a unique appearance within their environment, through various resources such as