2A magazine has selected this project for its architectural achievements and professional concepts.
Published in 2A Magazine issue# 44
Autumn 2019, First place of 2ACAA 2019, North America- Mexico City
Iturbide Studio
Architect: Taller | Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo |
Mexico City, Mauricio Rocha, Gabriela Carrillo, and Victor Legorreta argued that despite architecture’s limitations, it is architects’ attempts to overcome them that makes it art. Meanwhile Gabriel de la Mora, an artist trained as an architect, drew a line, separating the two disciplines: “Art is art and architecture is architecture,” he insisted. Yet both sides were not quite satisfied with their initial assertions and the discussion continued, opening up to many interesting positions that pulled and pushed the interlocutors closer together and further apart with every attempt to give an explanation. I loved the discussion and I hoped we would not reach any definitive answers; the last thing we need in architecture is a consensus. It is our insistence on questioning that leads to new visions and unique solutions.
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