The Aestheticisation of Inequality: Contrasting Landscapes on the Periphery of Mexico City
León Villegas and Mónica Arellano explore the history of the periphery of Mexico City, making a critique of the aesthetic over the ethical.
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León Villegas and Mónica Arellano explore the history of the periphery of Mexico City, making a critique of the aesthetic over the ethical.
From fascination to repulsion, architectural defragmentation evokes a grotesque sense revealed to the subversion of norms, which is characterized by the indeter
We have compiled a series of articles and interviews that present urban and architectural research and projects led by women architects.
“Abandonment Copies” is a research project created between 2016 and 2018 by artist Sandra Calvo consisting of a film, archives, drawings, interviews, and a video display which was exhibited in the Mexican pavilion during the 2021 Biennial of Venice. The project highlights architecture as a reflection of the migration process between Mexico and the United States, comparing and contrasting the houses where migrants work in the US and the ones they build in Mexico with the remittances they send. Dream House. Image © Sandra Calvo The project pays tribute to the constant struggle to build a ...