Shared Structures, Private Spaces: Housing in Mexico
Fernanda Canales
Actar Publishers, December 2020

Paperback | 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches | 280 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1945150883 | $46.00

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
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. Fernanda Canales holds a PhD in Architecture (ETSAM, Madrid), an MA from the Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña (UPC, Barcelona) and a Bachelor degree from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City). ... She is author of the books Vivienda Colectiva en México (Gustavo Gili, 2017) and Architecture in Mexico 1900-2010: The Construction of Modernity (Arquine, 2013). ...
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My formative years of architectural education were in the first half of the 1990s, when layerin...