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Discover the Ephemeral Installations Built for the Mextrópoli 2023 Pavilions

Mónica Arellano — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 05:00:00 +0000

For the ninth time, the MEXTRÓPOLI Architecture and City Festival held the Arquine Competition No. 25 | MEXTRÓPOLI 2023 Pavilion, a platform where architecture, urbanism, and art converge to contemplate and celebrate Mexico City. The event also aims to engage the public by occupying public spaces with architectural pieces that can be activated by visitors. Celebrating public spaces or offering a different perspective on the places routinely traversed is the reason MEXTRÓPOLI showcases these ephemeral architectural pieces.

Join the online broadcast of MEXTRÓPOLI. Festival of Architecture and City 2020!

Rene Submissions — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 09:00:00 +0000

The health crisis forced the MEXTRÓPOLI Festival to be rescheduled from March to September. However, months later, it remains an equally critical landscape. In Latin America, and specifically in Mexico, the number of infections continues to increase and the outlook does not present a close solution to the problem. That is why it was decided to move, once again, the Festival's face-to-face activities to March 2021, hoping that by then a safer scenario will be lived that allows to enjoy the activities already programmed, and some that can be added. then.

Details of this Week's MEXTRÓPOLI Architecture and City Festival 2018

Mónica Arellano — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 06:00:00 +0000

In 2018, the MEXTRÓPOLI Festival of Architecture and City presents its fifth edition, consolidating itself as a key event in the cultural agenda of Mexico City and as an important architectural event on a global scale. With its high curatorial quality MEXTRÓPOLI promotes the voices of architects, artists, mayors, and humanists who are globally recognized in their respective disciplines while offering affordable prices to students and anyone interested in the present and future directions of cities. MEXTRÓPOLI is a platform that allows you to experience the city, as well as to reflect on its political, civilian and aesthetic aspects.

One Bucket at a Time / Factor Eficiencia + 5468796 Architecture

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:00:00 +0000

This collaborative project, developed within the 2017th Mextropoli, highlights the liberal enjoyment of public space in Mexico City’s unique yet contentious urban environment.

Lacustrine Pavilion / TAP (Taller de Arquitectura Pública)

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:00:00 +0000

The Lacustrine Pavilion was born from the idea of generating a space for continuous reflection on our lacustrine past - that historical memory of the city, some of whose fragments we can still observe, feel, touch and experience. Analogous to a microscope, the pavilion is an artifact that will allow us to observe the lake horizon buried by the city.

MEXTROPOLI 2017: A 4-Day Architecture Festival in Mexico City

Rene Submissions — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 07:30:00 +0000

MEXTRÓPOLI, International Festival of Architecture and the City is an opportunity to experience the city through architecture.

Call for Submissions: MEXTRÓPOLI 2017 Pavilion in Mexico

Rene Submissions (Partners) — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:48:00 +0000

The MEXTRÓPOLI Pavilion will become a public space that is activated to promote reflection of key issues for the city, a pavilion with social vocation, which is recyclable and reusable, contemplating relocation and achieve incorporated as a recreational device, information carrier and knowledge to a space currently demands the city. Participants must design a structure that complies with the requirements that specify the rules of this competition in terms of time, cost and characteristics; considered as a fundamental part to evaluate the proposal on thematic approach should be discussions within the structure will be carried out, this way the MEXTRÓPOLI Pavilion will become a traveling purposeful device that every year open global space competition from generating ideas that revolve around the development process of architecture and the city, which in turn will become the benchmark per se of each edition of the Festival of Architecture and City.

Open Call: Arquine Launches Competition to Design the 2016 MEXTROPOLI Pavilion

Daniela Cruz — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 08:00:00 +0000

Held annually since 1998, Arquine’s International Architecture Competition seeks to explore issues of importance and relevance to society, creating a space for dialogue between both national and international architects.

Arquine Launches Competition No. 17: Eastern Metropolitan Green Lung

Sponsored Post — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Held annually since 1998, the Arquine International Architecture Competition explores important and relevant topics for society as a whole, creating a space for dialogue and promoting active participation of both national and international architects. It has become one of the best architecture ideas competitions, with over 400 teams from more than 21 countries participating last year.

Arquine Presents: MEXTROPOLI 2015

Daniela Cruz — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Arquine’s second annual International Architecture and Latin American City festival, MEXTRÓPOLI, will take place from March 6-10, 2015 in Mexico City. To encourage citizen participation, the festival will be broken down into six parts: listening, dialogue, observation, taking action, participation and celebration.

MEXTRÓPOLI aims to convert Mexico City into a pioneering city, making it an architectural reference for the continent. The festival also serves as an important cultural project for the city, encouraging urban regeneration and promoting Mexico city’s artistic heritage.

Arquine Call for Entries / Threshold of the Americas

Javiera González — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Arquine International Architecture Competition has been held since 1998 and aims to explore issues of significance and relevance for society as a whole, foster new platforms for dialogue and promote the involvement of architects in responding to specific problems, while encouraging local and international competition and participation.

Conference No. 14: Space

Sebastian Jordana — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Architects could never explain space. When we think about space, we have only looked at its containers. As if space itself is invisible.
Rem Koolhaas

Re-inhabit the 21st century: Social Housing from the Modern Paradigm Competition

Sebastian Jordana — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:00:00 +0000

With a continuing interest in the exploration of socially important and relevant issues, encouraging the creation of spaces for dialog and the participation of architects resolving concerns through proposed projects; Arquine summons participants to its 15th International Architecture Contest to Re-inhabit the 21st century. Social Housing from the Modern Paradigm.