Shared structures, private spaces : housing 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 housi...

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Main Author: Canales, Fernanda (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Devesa, Ricardo, 1971- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Spanish.
Published: New York : Actar Publishers, 2020.
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Summary: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 seventy housing projects, creating a common language highlighting different attempts at reinventing the house not as isolated battles 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.
Physical Description:279 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273).
ISBN:1945150882
9781945150883