2024-11-23T03:43:14-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/140274290/building-a-new-architecture-school-in-and-for-tijuana-i-wanted-to-be-right-in-the-middle-of-things Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-11-02T12:30:00-05:00 >2022-03-14T10:01:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/fa/fa326d8ac1a6aa16813203dece6f80fb?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>"We want students to be able to build &mdash; to go to a building or a plaza and be able to analyze what works and what doesn't. And we want them to work within the social context, in this case, of Tijuana." "Tijuana is our laboratory," says Enrique Gonz&aacute;lez Silva, the school's founding academic director. "The idea of the program is that the students understand the reality of being an architect here." [...] "The theory is very important. But we want students to be able to design and build."</p></em><br /><br /><p>More on Tijuana's developing architectures:</p><ul><li><a title="Minimalist Homes Rise in Tijuana as Violence Subsides" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/101249386/minimalist-homes-rise-in-tijuana-as-violence-subsides" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Minimalist Homes Rise in Tijuana as Violence Subsides</a></li><li><a title="El futuro necesita imaginarse; Tijuana, Edgelands and Network culture " href="http://archinect.com/news/article/47790510/el-futuro-necesita-imaginarse-tijuana-edgelands-and-network-culture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">El futuro necesita imaginarse; Tijuana, Edgelands and Network culture</a></li><li><a title="Rethinking the U.S./Mexico Border Fence" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/20186087/rethinking-the-u-s-mexico-border-fence" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rethinking the U.S./Mexico Border Fence</a></li></ul>