I have been searching for the square footage of Luis Barragán's personal home in Tacubaya. Any good ideas on where to look? I've tried our library, I've tried google. I know its out there somewhere. I just need a little help.
MAD, (or any one for that matter) who are some other great Mexican Architects, besides TEN, Legorreta+Legorreta, Barragan, and Central de Arquitectura?
technically... Goeritz was a sculptor not an architect, and he was German, he collaborated w/Barragan and did a couple of buildings on his own (Museum Eco)
and Candela was also an inmigrant, he was Spanish
but yeah hey both are kind of cornerstons of the "modern" movement of the mexican architecture...which i wonder if is now over or we still dragin' it :P
*NOTE: they do speak english at the Casa Barragan museum, and/or they can send u the info via e.mail on better written english :)
Thanks guys. I know it looks like I'm lazy, but I really don't know where to begin looking on these Mexican Architects. I can ramble about American and European architects all day. Even some Australian. But I hardly know anything about our neighbors to the south.
well im interested in people doing god architectural work in central america (like guatemala, costa rica, panama, etc) and or good YOUNG architecture (not industrial design) brazilians!...so if anybody knows some, share....
square feet (meters)
I have been searching for the square footage of Luis Barragán's personal home in Tacubaya. Any good ideas on where to look? I've tried our library, I've tried google. I know its out there somewhere. I just need a little help.
Thanks in advance.
according to this page
it's 470 sm or5,060 sf
damn it. thanks holz. I've been freaking out trying to get it done. I must have missed something incredibly simple.
yeah. i dunno how solid that is. i found a few references to 5200 sf.
you can always browse[img=http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1136/documents/]unesco[/url]
and also an interesting NYT article on barragan by
pawson
HOLZ it does feels that size (470 sm), maybe a little bit smaller, maybe 400....
FULERu can always call directly to the house/museum and ask
Yeah, but it was a Sunday Night, and my Spanish isn't nearly as good as my German.
MAD, (or any one for that matter) who are some other great Mexican Architects, besides TEN, Legorreta+Legorreta, Barragan, and Central de Arquitectura?
juan o'gorman
alberto kalach
Pedro Ramirez Vasquez
Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon
oh, also
Mathias Goeritz
Félix Candela
mmhhh i personally dont like CENTRAL.... dont get me wrong, i went to school with them, guys r cool, but i dont think they're doing nothing new....
anyways
i name a few of the ppl making noize and friends and some others who have been around the mexican scene for quite some years:
_Michel Rojkind: www.rojkindarquitectos.com
_Isaac Broid: http://isaacbroid.com/index.htm
_Derek Dellekamp: http://www.dellekamparq.com
_Julio Amezcua+Francisco Pardo a.k.a. AT103: http://www.at103.net/
_Raul Cardenas | TOROLAB: http://www.torolab.co.nr
_Armando Hashimoto and Surella Segú | el cielo: http://www.onsitereview.ca/issues/issue14/
_Higuera + Sanchez who recently did a PLOT-like move and became now JSA: http://higuera-sanchez.com/ or also now at: http://www.jsadd.com/
_Tatiana Bilbao: http://www.mxa.com.mx/ (this year in the design vanguard list of Arch Record)
_Fernando Romero: http://www.laboratoryofarchitecture.com
_Gerardo Broissin: http://www.broissin.com/ ((this year in the design vanguard list of Arch Record)
_PODUCTORA: http://www.productora-df.com.mx
_Bernardo Gomez Pimienta (ex-Norten's partner): http://www.bgp.com.mx
_Mauricio Rocha: http://www.tallerdearquitectura.com.mx
_Eduardo Cadaval: http://www.ca-so.com/ (located in BCN but mexican)
_Felipe Leal
and im sure im forgetting other people w/ineresting work.... but i guess this will keep u busy enough visiting websites :)
technically... Goeritz was a sculptor not an architect, and he was German, he collaborated w/Barragan and did a couple of buildings on his own (Museum Eco)
and Candela was also an inmigrant, he was Spanish
but yeah hey both are kind of cornerstons of the "modern" movement of the mexican architecture...which i wonder if is now over or we still dragin' it :P
*NOTE: they do speak english at the Casa Barragan museum, and/or they can send u the info via e.mail on better written english :)
try also this link:
http://www.onsitereview.ca/mexico.html
an also i forgot:
Ivan Hernandez Quintela | LUDENS: www.ludens.com.mx
Thanks guys. I know it looks like I'm lazy, but I really don't know where to begin looking on these Mexican Architects. I can ramble about American and European architects all day. Even some Australian. But I hardly know anything about our neighbors to the south.
well im interested in people doing god architectural work in central america (like guatemala, costa rica, panama, etc) and or good YOUNG architecture (not industrial design) brazilians!...so if anybody knows some, share....
thanks MAD for that extensive list - I think I'll blog a few of them in the coming weeks.
feel free to do it philia hope that keep the audience busy while i do my triunfal breakthrou :P
rfuller, these are all younger architect/designers from a specific city in Mexico who have recently been up to cool stuff:
1. landa_garcia_landa arquitectos http://www.landagarcialanda.com/
2. oficina de arquitectura http://www.oficinadearquitectura.com/ (they recently did the Museo del Acero in collaboration with Grimshaw)
3. alexander lenoir http://www.lenoir-asociados.com/ or also www.a-mas-v.com
4. camargo arquitectos
hope this helps.
he specific city u mentioned BERTOLUCIANA is Monterrey (north of mexico)...i guess u forgot to write that
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