Mexico

Session 255. Solemn Session, Investiture of Chapter Members, Full Members, and Honorary Members, and the 2019-2021 Board of Directors transition.

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Session 251. "Recent Works" with Julio Amezcua.

The work of Julio Amezcua, director of AMEZCUA Estudio de Arquitectura, is defined by its consistently contemporary, creative, and inherently harmonious nature. A masterful use of space and the thoughtful application of materials lend a solid character to the work, which seeks to improve the quality of life for its inhabitants and the cities it occupies.

The ultimate aspiration of architecture is to offer its users universes that confront them with different dimensions of the world: starting with physical reality, traversing history through time and space, and arriving at symbolic aspects that express art, mysticism, and the mystery of the human condition. For society in the information age, it is essential to cultivate a connection with art through the presence of its works in daily life and within the city.

Encuentro Helvex 2019 aims to create a convergent space for design, innovation, and architecture. As the first event of its kind in Mexico, it features a series of plenary sessions led by renowned experts in these fields. The goal is to foster dialogue and participation among various working groups to propose solutions to industry challenges, with a focus on sustainability and global benefit.

In cities, most open space is dedicated to vehicle traffic and parking, while only a small percentage is allocated to people and their daily activities. For this reason, the Parque(ando) proposal involves temporarily occupying parking spaces to expand their potential for collective use, thereby promoting socialization, cultural expression and diversity, play, community, the appropriation of our spaces, and generosity.

As part of Mextrópoli 2019, the panel discussion "Does Marketing Exist for Architecture and Design?" will be held at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City.

Jesús D’Alessandro Martínez, guest of this chapter, will present "Santo Domingo, or How to Grow Under the Sun," sharing his experiences from his work as the current Director of the Strategic Plan for Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where they have successfully achieved a new urban vision.

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The First Art and City Salon is a project by El Asunto Urbano that brings together artists and architects whose practice is closely linked to both fields: architects creating artworks and artists using architecture as part of their language.

LECTURE by Gabriela Carrillo, titled "Architecture: Processes"
Mexican architect, graduated with honors from the UNAM Faculty of Architecture. She develops public and private architectural projects of varying scales, as well as historical restorations, ephemeral interventions, and exhibition designs. Her work has been published and featured in national and international magazines, books, and exhibitions. She has collaborated with Mauricio Rocha since 2001, and in 2011, they partnered to form Taller |Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo|. In 2016, they designed the exhibition layout for "The Great Animal Orchestra" at the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the pavilion for Hermès at the Milan Furniture Fair. She has delivered lectures, led workshops, and taught postgraduate courses at various universities in Mexico, the United States, and several South American countries. She has received awards at the Mexican, Ibero-American, and Pan-American Architecture Biennials. In 2012, the UNAM Faculty of Architecture awarded them the Federico Mariscal Chair, the university's highest recognition for professional practice. She was a recipient of the 2014 Emerging Voices Award from The Architectural League of New York and was named "Architect of the Year 2017" by the international Architectural Review and Architects' Journal award.

Published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, A House Is Not Just a House examines Tatiana Bilbao's work on housing. Regardless of the typology, her work constructs arguments regarding the production of domestic spaces in a way that is both expansive and minimal, inseparable from the context in which they are located, and based on the fundamental principles of dwelling.
The book includes a lecture delivered by Tatiana Bilbao at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, as well as reflections from colleagues and scholars such as Amale Andraos, Gabriela Etchegaray, Hilary Sample, and Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco.
The book presentation brings together its authors for a discussion that will provide an in-depth look at Tatiana Bilbao’s work and delve into the genealogies of social housing. This project also connects to the recent exhibition at LIGA, “Trayectorias de un panel,” which explores the geopolitical history of social housing in Chile.
A House Is Not Just a House is a publication by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, part of the Transcripts on Housing series, within the GSAPP Transcripts series, in collaboration with the M.Arch Housing Studios at Columbia University GSAPP.

Dichotomies of Power is an exhibition by the firm Dellekamp/Schleich, contextualized within a historical moment of change in Mexico. Part of the Abierto Mexicano de Diseño 2020 program, this exhibition invites visitors to use their interpretive skills to immerse themselves in three dimensions of the representation of power: the real, the symbolic, and the imagined.

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