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From Ecologies to Everyday Life: Reflecting on Architectural Exhibitions in 2025

Daniela Andino — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This past year marked a period of introspection for architecture. As 2025 unfolded, the discipline, confronted with evolving environmental and social realities, entered a broader turning point in how it understands its role and how users engage with it. Throughout the year, exhibitions shifted focus away from buildings as isolated objects toward a broader understanding of relationships between ecology, equity, everyday life, and collective imaginaries. Across institutions and cities, they operated less as showcases and more as discursive platforms: places where architecture was not only presented, but also imagined, questioned, and collectively redefined.

Unveiling the 15 Most Significant Architectural Events of 2025

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 05:00:00 +0000

2025 promises to be a landmark in architecture, heralding a vibrant renaissance of creativity and exploration. As societies confront challenges such as climate change, rapid urbanization, and technological evolution, architecture is both a mirror to these dynamics and a compass pointing toward a sustainable and inclusive future. This year's architectural calendar offers abundant opportunities to celebrate the discipline's transformative power — from boundary-pushing festivals to thought-provoking exhibitions that explore pressing cultural and environmental narratives.

Architecture in Focus: 16 Global Events between September and December 2024

Maria-Cristina Florian — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:30:00 +0000

As the architectural landscape continues to evolve in response to pressing global challenges, events such as biennales, design weeks, and fairs play an instrumental role in shaping the profession's future. These gatherings facilitate the exchange of innovative ideas, the exploration of sustainable practices, and the fostering of collaboration among architects, designers, and urban planners. They serve not only as platforms for showcasing cutting-edge designs but also as forums for critical dialogue about the built environment's impact on society and the planet.

Shigeru Ban on Inhabiting the Margins: “Anything Available Is Building Material”

Fabian Dejtiar — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 05:30:00 +0000

From the 21st to the 25th of September, the Mextrópoli Festival + XII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism took place in Mexico City. As part of the event, ArchDaily spoke with 2014 Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban about the central theme "Inhabiting at the margins", a proposal that sought to make visible the work of those who are providing solutions to the growing social, environmental, and economic needs at the margins of the system.

‘Habitar al Margen’, Selected Project for the 2022 Ibero-American Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Fabian Dejtiar — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 04:30:00 +0000

Five finalists of the open call were announced on the 9th of December to determine the project that would be in charge of the XII BIAU: Ibero-American Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 - to be held in Mexico during September 2022 with the collaboration of the Architecture and City Festival, MEXTRÓPOLI.

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.

Alejandro Aravena and David Chipperfield Among Speakers at Mextrópoli's Architecture Festival 2019

Mónica Arellano — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:45:00 +0000

Mextrópoli is a ludic and reflexive event that heightens the voices of architects, city planners and authorities to generate knowledge about the city that occupants inhabit. At Mextrópoli, public spaces are filled with pavilions, panel discussions that involve prominent actors in issues such as urbanism and public policy, as well as a strong selection of speakers. This program seeks to include all citizens. Students, activists, urban planners and architects are welcome to experience the extraordinary city.

In its sixth edition, the Mextrópoli Architecture and City Festival will propose new ways of thinking about the city as an open territory that is continually redefining its limits.

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.

What can Latin America Learn From WOHA's Green Skyscrapers?

Karina Zatarain — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:00:00 +0000

WOHA's first exhibition in Latin America, Garden City Mega City: WOHA's Urban Ecosystems presents over two decades of WOHA's international designs. With its inauguration at the Museum of the City of Mexico during the MEXTRÓPOLI International Festival of Architecture and City, the exhibition proposes the introduction of biodiversity and lively public spaces into vertical, climate-sensitive highrises within megalopolises.

WOHA On Why High-Density Living Doesn't Mean Sacrificing Nice Things

Karina Zatarain — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:00:00 +0000

As part of the MEXTRÓPOLI festival in Mexico City early last month, Singapore-based firm WOHA debuted their first exhibition in the Latin America, GARDEN CITY MEGA CITY. WOHA's architecture introduces biodiversity into public spaces, turning high-rise courtyards and hallways into teeming community assets. In this exhibition, the architects show how their work has addressed both climate change and the social challenges that occur as a result of rapid (upward) urban development.

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.

AD Interviews: Martha Thorne / IE School of Architecture and Design

Katie Watkins — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 06:00:02 +0000

During the Mextropoli Festival in Mexico City, we had the chance to sit down with Martha Thorne, the Vice Dean of the IE School of Architecture and Design, and the Executive Director of the Pritzker Prize, who spoke with us about some of the challenges currently facing architecture education.

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.

AD Interviews: Winka Dubbeldam

David Basulto — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 01:00:00 +0000

At last week's Mextrópoli conference we spoke with Winka Dubbeldam about the challenges of architecture education. We also asked her to elaborate on why she thinks architecture should embrace industrial design tools. Watch the short clip to hear Winka's thoughts on making technology a more integral part of our built environment.