Shared Structures, Private Spaces: Housing in Mexico

124 1958 La Nacional Insurance Building

Augusto Álvarez and Enrique Carral

126 1958

Teodoro González de León

Barra de Navidad

130 1960 Unidad Independencia complex 132 1964 Conjunto Urbano Presidente López Mateos de Nonoalco-Tlatelolco

Alejandro Prieto, José María Gutiérrez, Pedro Miret, Manuel Santiago, Manuel San Román, Carlos Villaseñor and Leonel Pérez

136 1964 Railway Workers complex

Pascual Broid, Óscar Urrutia, Benjamín Méndez and Carlos Ortega

138 1968 Mixcoac Towers

Abraham Zabludovsky and Teodoro González de León

140 1968 Olympic Villa

Agustín Hernández, Manuel González, Ramón Torres, Héctor Velázquez and Carlos Ortega

144 1969

Kalikosmia

Juan José Díaz Infante

146 1973

Unidad Iztacalco complex

Imanol Ordorika, J. Francisco Serrano and José R. Nava Requesens

150 1976

Mexicali Housing

Christopher Alexander

152 1977

CTM-Atemajac Housing Complex

Alejandro Zohn

154 1977

Ricardo Flores Magón Housing complex

Alejandro Zohn

Mario Pani, Luis Ramos Cunningham, Enrique Molina, Domingo García Ramos, Víctor Vila and Hilario Galguera

158 1978 Integración Latinoamericana

Sánchez Arquitectos y Asociados: Félix Sánchez, Luis Sánchez Renero, Gustavo López Padilla, Fernando Mota, Humberto Ricalde and Héctor Meza

160 1986 Fuentes Brotantes (II)

Teodoro González de León and J. Francisco Serrano

164 1991 Las Crucesitas

Carlos González Lobo and María Eugenia Hurtado

166 1992 Brasil 75

Enrique Norten and Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta

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Shared Structures, Private Spaces: Housing in Mexico

Published on Oct 15, 2020

Actar Publishers

Author: Fernanda Canales. A case study that analyzes the relationship between ideas and houses, this book focuses on 100 years of housing projects in Mexico. The geographic, social, and economic diversity of Mexico constitute a prime example of the challenges inherent to meeting individual needs in an increasingly crowded world. The drawings and essays comprise new ways of looking at theories and buildings in order to redefine the connection between housing and the city. This research is centered in drawings of 70 housing projects, creating a common language highlighting different attempts at reinventing the house not as an isolated battle but as part of a strategy for reimagining how we want to live. This book showcases the pivotal voices that have shaped major cities through housing projects and explores how policies and ideas transform into built form, and how in turn buildings shape societies.