All that is solid melts into air…
In theater there is nothing more powerful than the space. Today, when movies, television, computer – all flat projections on the screen – are dominating our visual world, theatre uniquely takes place in space....
Bob Noorda: la misura dei segni
Bob Noorda. The Measure of Signage
Many of the images that characterized Italy's passage from wartime and gave a recognizable face to its reconstruction and economic boom were the work of foreign graphic designers.
“Great” Italian...
Mexico City: what it’s like to live in a metropolis with 25 million inhabitants
Luis Barragán, Satélite Towers, Mexico City, 1957
The capital of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos (the country’s official name according to article 44 of its constitution) in addition to being the seat of power of the...
La città caleidoscopica
Kaleidoscopic City
When my dream finally came true and I was able to visit Mexico City for the first time, in August 2006, the city was in the hands of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s people!
I...
From a city of architects to architects without a city
It is not a recent development that architects have stopped deciding the course of cities’ development. However until a few decades ago, not a few busied themselves in designing – if not entire cities...
Dust in the Wind
Mexico City is a dusty city. Or, better, Mexico City is a windy and sometimes dry city and, therefore, a dusty city. Dust, in Mexico, is an index – in Charles Senders Peirce sense,...
L‘identità nella dimensione
Marella Santangelo: What town planning instruments are currently used in Mexico City, and what plans and programs do you adopt?
Felipe Leal: A number of planning instruments are used, as for instance the General Urban...
Mexico City: a city of outsides
For some time now Mexico City has existed in the global imaginary as one of the largest cities in the world; a paradigm of urbanization in the 20th century and more specifically of the...
Contemporary Mexican architecture: diversity and identity
The richness of contemporary Mexican architecture derives from its diversity. Diversity as value, not as a poutpourri of characterless proposals, but as interaction between generations, styles and affinities. While the emergent generation (Chile) or...
Casa Negra
During the late 90´s the growth of suburbial areas of Mexico City was restricted as a part of Bando 2 program, which intended to slow down the spreading of the city in areas which...
Falcon Headquarters
The company, Corporativo Falcon, dedicated to instruments and medical equipment, required a new headquarters building in Mexico City. The premise, besides the need of greater area and a space designed to make efficient its...