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Rombo IV / Miguel Angel Aragonés

Clara Ott — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 06:00:00 +0000

The Rombos are four bodies assembled together with the formal accident that generated the urban fabric. It is a private space with three houses and a studio, in a central and tree-lined area of Mexico City called Bosques de las Lomas. With a continuous interaction with the tree, it is perhaps our most present guest and in any case the most enveloping, as well as the water that has a broad continuity.

Mar Adentro / Miguel Angel Aragonés

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 24 May 2016 12:00:00 +0000

The first time I visited this property and took in the desert and the diaphanous, clear water running along a horizontal line in the background, I felt the enormous drive of water under a scorching sun. This piece of land, located in the middle of a coastline dotted with “All Inclusives,” would have to be transformed into a box that contained its own sea –practically its own air– given the happy circumstance that the universe had created a desert joined to the sea along a horizontal line. It was the purest, most minimalist landscape a horizon could have drawn. On either side, this dreamlike scenery collided with what humans consider to be aesthetic and build and baptize as architecture. I wanted to draw my own version, apart from the rest.

La Palma / Miguel Angel Aragonés

Jonathan Alarcón — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Mexico is a land watched over by the Sun. Why not take advantage, then, of this legacy and make it a pro- tagonist, an accomplice of architectural space? Why not let its powerful presence dwell in our interiors? Why not use sunlight to generate sensations, atmospheres? The Sun is to the architect what the compass is to the navigator; it is both the starting point and guiding principle behind all projects. When viewing a property, the first thing you need to know is where it comes up and where it goes down; where you want its light to enter in the summertime and where during the winter. The Sun has to be captured, manipulated, seduced: its light stored. Not scattered, but softened. This abil- ity—the art of containing light—transforms the archi- tect into a translator, an alchemist of sorts. As in navigation, latitude is the framework behind architecture.

Tecas 43 / Miguel Angel Aragonés

Jonathan Alarcón — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Science is the great motor of humanity and its progress has been unquestionable. In the 20th century, for ex- ample, it was capable of deciphering and measuring the invisible; from observing the most microscopic phe- nomena to understanding the remote corners of outer space. Transferring knowledge in order to abound in new discoveries or reveal hidden aspects of reality is a daily exercise among scientists. Today, we know much more about the universe than we did just a few years ago. Science, with its methodology, and art, with its cre- ative gaze, have succeeded in helping us understand things more clearly. They have shown us the world as dual points of view that unveil, that reveal through two different lenses. Great artists are capable of unmasking objects—in the broadest sense. That is why I believe that art shows us what is pertinent and eliminates the irrelevance of objects, that which does not belong there.

Hotel Encanto Acapulco / Miguel Angel Aragonés

Megan Jett — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The hotel is located on a 13,000 sqm plot of land in an area that is bordered on the backside by an ecological reserve and surrounded with varied views of Acapulco.