11.21.2007

Foro de discusión sobre el desarrollo urbano de la Cd. de México a celebrárse en la UIA


Invitación Foro de discusión sobre el desarrollo urbano de la Cd. de México a celebrárse en la UIA

El departamento de Arquitectura de la Universidad Iberoamericana tiene el honor de invitarlo el próximo jueves 22 de noviembre, al primer foro de discusión sobre soluciones arquitectónicas para la viabilidad de la Ciudad de México en el Siglo XXI.


11.13.2007

Conferencia de Enrique Martín-Moreno

Jueves 15 de Noviembre - 11 horas
Sala B202


ENRIQUE MARTIN-MORENO CARRANCEDO es arquitecto urbanista y director de martin-moreno. Su práctica profesional se enfoca en el desarrollo de herramientas para que la arquitectura responda a las diferentes dinámicas urbanas en juego. Ha sido invitado a dar conferencias en México y Estados Unidos, y su trabajo e investigación han sido publicados internacionalmente.
Actualmente es co-curador de la exposición Vacíos Urbanos a inaugurarse en diciembre del 2007 en el Museo de la Ciudad de México. Fue curador del pabellón de México en la Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa 2007, representó a la Universidad Iberoamericana en la X Muestra Internacional de Arquitectura de la Bienal de Venecia en el 2006, y a México en la Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Róterdam en el 2005.
Es miembro de la facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad Iberoamericana de la Ciudad de México donde da clases de Urbanismo y Proyectos Arquitectónicos. También ha sido profesor de Diseño Arquitectónico y Urbanismo en el Southern California Institute of Architecture, SCI_Arc de Los Ángeles y Arizona State University en Tempe, Arizona.
Antes de fundar su propia oficina en el 2003, trabajó en Sordo Madaleno y Asociados (1994-1996) y de Yturbe Arquitectos (1996-2003) donde llegó al puesto de Socio Director Adjunto, y donde participó en el diseño de planes maestros de desarrollos turísticos en México y Nicaragua, así como el diseño y construcción de varias residencias unifamiliares, desarrollos residenciales, hoteles, clubes y campos de golf, edificios de oficinas en México, Estados Unidos, Centro y Sudamérica.Es Arquitecto por la Universidad Iberoamericana de la Ciudad de México (1999) y recibió su maestría en arquitectura por la Universidad de Harvard (2002).

11.10.2007

La Torre Milenio

¿La recuerdas?

"gracias a Dios"... no está, ¿pero qué seguirá?

Puebla tendrá nuevo alcalde.

¿Qué proyectos vendrán?, ¿Con qué objetos nos llenarán?,

¿Podremos hacer algo?





11.09.2007

Enrique Martín-Moreno

El día jueves 15 de Noviembre el arquitecto Enrique Martín-Moreno impartirá una conferencia en la Ibero Puebla a las 11 de la mañana.

?Quién es Enrique Martin-Moreno?

un texto tomado del sitio oficial de la Trienal de Lisboa 2007, donde fue curador para el pabellón de México y líder del equipo que representó al país:

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México
Curador
Enrique Martín-Moreno

Nacido en la Ciudad de México en 1974, es arquitecto, planeador y principal de Martin-Moreno. Su práctica profesional se enfoca en expandir las herramientas de la arquitectura para participar en las diferentes dinámicas urbanas en juego. Participó en equipos que representaron a la Universidad Iberoamericana en la X Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia en 2006, y a México en la II Bienal de Arquitectura de Rotterdam en 2005. Desde 2003 es miembro de la facultad de arquitectura de la Universidad Iberoamericana de la Ciudad de México donde enseña estudios urbanos y diseño arquitectónico. También ha liderado estudios basados en investigación en el Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arch) y en la Arizona State University (ASU). Su oficina recientemente completó un proyecto de investigación sobre el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México con el Centro de Estudios de Desarrollo Urbano de Harvard, así como preparar la vivienda del Estado de México junto con el Centro Conjunto de Estudios de Vivienda de la Universidad de Harvard (Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University), CONAFOVI y CIDOC. Antes de establecer su propia oficina, Enrique Martin-Moreno trabajó en Sordo Madaleno y Asociados (1994-1996), para después unirse a Yturbe Arquitectos (1996-2003), donde fue socio de dicha oficina. Recibió su Licenciatura en Arquitectura por la Universidad Iberoamericana (Ciudad de México, 1999) y Maestría en Arquitectura por la Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2002).

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El texto original en inglés, además de un fragmento por Enrique Martín-Moreno:

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MEXICO

Curator
Enrique Martin-Moreno


Born,1974, Ciudad de Mexico, is an architect and planner and principal of Martin-Moreno. His professional practice focuses in expanding the tools of architecture to participate in the different urban dynamics at play. He participated in teams representing the Universidad Iberoamericana at the X Venice Architecture Biennale in 2006, and Mexico at the II International Biennal of Architecture of Rotterdam 2005. Since 2003 he has been a faculty member at the Universidad Iberoamericana of Mexico City where he teaches urban studies and architectural design. He has also led research based studios at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci_Arc) and the Arizona State University (ASU). His office recently completed a research project on the Historic Center of Mexico City with the Harvard Center for Urban Development Studies as well as preparing the State of Mexico's Housing with the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, CONAFOVI and CIDOC. Before founding his own practice, Mr. Martin-Moreno worked at Sordo Madaleno y Asociados (1994-1996), later he joined de Yturbe Arquitectos (1996-2003) were he became partner of the firm. He received his Professional Degree in Architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City, 1999) and an M. Arch. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2002).

Exhibition

MEXICO
The City cannot be encapsulated by a formal, uniform system, justified by the preferential treatment of one argument over another; of static relations that prolong singularities, uniformity and inflexible conditions in general. The city of fixed rules and forms of organization and territorial control, possession, and absolute demarcation of the territory. A broken city, where the space –institutional or physical– is determined as ‘proper’ and serves as a basis from which any externality is understood as a series of threats and everything different is grouped as “the other” and its places as Voids. If one understands the city as a system of networks that are defined by both physically discernible and invisible ruptures, its material form, social fabric, and the mechanisms that influence its development, are all laced with irreconcilable differences. It is in the so-called Urban Voids where incidentally unrelated parts coexist in a never-ending interplay of differences. They are moments with the highest potential and richness, it is when the occupations and forces of one system meet and interact with those from another. This way, we shift from a world of geometric boundaries and stable borders and distinctions to one of multidimensional transference and network effects. The Mexican participation in TAL’07 will consist in diverse urban tactics distributed throughout Lisbon developed by: Rodrigo Alcocer, María Alós, Gustavo Artigas, Raúl Cárdenas, Teddy Cruz, Minerva Cuevas, Iván Hernández, Jonathan Hernández, Homeless, Morris, Fernando Ortega, Miguel Robles-Durán, S, Tercerunquinto, Wakal, and Taro Zorrilla. We searched for ways of operating without a ‘proper’ place, that depend on time and not in place. Tactics that don’t make a unit, but remain interconnected. These urban activities, at the same time transitory, temporary and ephemeral, challenge the ‘proper’ places of the city and assimilate complex relationships. Our place belongs to ‘the other’; we will occupy interstitial spaces and will depend on seized opportunities, on cleverly chosen moments, and on the rapidity of movements that change the organization of a space.


Credits:

Curator: Enrique Martin-Moreno C.

Co-curator : Ania Calderón, Daniel Daou, Andrea Gutiérrez, Jorge Munguía, Alejandro Ramos, Clorinda Romo, Guillermo Ruíz de Teresa.

Projects : Rodrigo Alcocer, María Alós, Gustavo Artigas, Raúl Cárdenas, Teddy Cruz, Minerva Cuevas, Iván Hernández, Jonathan Hernández, Homeless, Moris, Fernando Ortega, Miguel Robles-Durán, Tercerunquinto, Wakal e Taro Zorrilla.

Image and Graphic : S
Special photographies : Dante Busquets Lisboa Team: Rita Almada-Negreiros e Catarina Almada-Negreiros.

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Liga: http://trienaldelisboa.sapo.pt/


11.05.2007

Dear Architects, I'm sick of your shit

Me parece que aunque la mayoría de los que leamos esto seamos aun estudiantes, vale la pena leerlo y por lo menos reflexionarlo un par de minutos. Hay que tomar en cuenta que fue escrito con un humor muy pero muy negro. Espero poder traducirlo pronto al castellano. Esta muy bueno..

“Once, a long time ago in the days of yore, I had a friend who was studying architecture to become, presumably, an architect.
This friend introduced me to other friends, who were also studying architecture. Then these friends had other friends who were architects - real architects doing real architecture like designing luxury condos that look a lot like glass dildos. And these real architects knew other real architects and now the only people I know are architects. And they all design glass dildos that I will never work or live in and serve only to obstruct my view of New Jersey.

Do not get me wrong, architects. I like you as a person. I think you are nice, smell good most of the time, and I like your glasses. You have crazy hair, and if you are lucky, most of it is on your head. But I do not care about architecture. It is true. This is what I do care about:

* burritos
* hedgehogs
* coffee

As you can see, architecture is not on the list. I believe that architecture falls somewhere between toenail fungus and invasive colonoscopy in the list of things that interest me.

Perhaps if you didn’t talk about it so much, I would be more interested. When you point to a glass cylinder and say proudly, hey my office designed that, I giggle and say it looks like a bong. You turn your head in disgust and shame. You think, obviously she does not understand. What does she know? She is just a writer. She is no architect. She respects vowels, not glass cocks. And then you say now I am designing a lifestyle center, and I ask what is that, and you say it is a place that offers goods and services and retail opportunities and I say you mean like a mall and you say no. It is a lifestyle center. I say it sounds like a mall. I am from the Valley, bitch. I know malls.

Architects, I will not lie, you confuse me. You work sixty, eighty hours a week and yet you are always poor. Why aren’t you buying me a drink? Where is your bounty of riches? Maybe you spent it on merlot. Maybe you spent it on hookers and blow. I cannot be sure. It is a mystery. I will leave that to the scientists to figure out.

Architects love to discuss how much sleep they have gotten. One will say how he was at the studio until five in the morning, only to return again two hours later. Then another will say, oh that is nothing. I haven’t slept in a week. And then another will say, guess what, I have never slept ever. My dear architects, the measure of how hard you’ve worked and how much you’ve accomplished is not related to the number of hours you have not slept. Have you heard of Rem Koolhaas? He is a famous architect. I know this because you tell me he is a famous architect. I hear that Rem Koolhaas is always sleeping. He is, I presume, sleeping right now. And I hear he gets shit done. And I also hear that in a stunning move, he is making a building that looks not like a glass cock, but like a concrete vagina. When you sleep more, you get vagina. You can all take a lesson from Rem Koolhaas.

Life is hard for me, please understand. Architects are an important part of my existence. They call me at eleven at night and say they just got off work, am I hungry? Listen, it is practically midnight. I ate hours ago. So long ago that, in fact, I am hungry again. So yes, I will go. Then I will go and there will be other architects talking about AutoCAD shortcuts and something about electric panels and can you believe that is all I did today, what a drag. I look around the table at the poor, tired, and hungry, and think to myself, I have but only one bullet left in the gun. Who will I choose?

I have a friend who is a doctor. He gives me drugs. I enjoy them. I have a friend who is a lawyer. He helped me sue my landlord. My architect friends have given me nothing. No drugs, no medical advice, and they don’t know how to spell subpoena. One architect friend figured out that my apartment was one hundred and eighty seven square feet. That was nice. Thanks for that.

I suppose one could ask what someone like me brings to architects like yourselves. I bring cheer. I yell at architects when they start talking about architecture. I force them to discuss far more interesting topics, like turkey eggs. Why do we eat chicken eggs, but not turkey eggs? They are bigger. And people really like turkey. See? I am not afraid to ask the tough questions.

So, dear architects, I will stick around, for only a little while. I hope that one day some of you will become doctors and lawyers or will figure out my taxes. And we will laugh at the days when you spent the entire evening talking about some European you’ve never met who designed a building you will never see because you are too busy working on something that will never get built. But even if that day doesn’t arrive, give me a call anyway, I am free.

Yours truly,
Annie Choi”

Encontrado en http://plataformaarquitectura.cl