Esrawe Studio Designs Félix Candela–Inspired Lights
To create the brass form of Parábola, the studio partnered with Pablo Reyes, a Oaxacan metalworker based in Mexico City.
Mexico City
Taller TO Explores Movement in Architecture on Mexico City’s Unsteady Ground
Firm founders Carlos Facio and José G. Amozurrutia's commitment to environmental and social responsibility has grounded the studio as it expands.
Mexico City's LIGA Features Exhibition by Pedro y Juana
The Mexico City–based duo Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky Reuss (who work under the moniker Pedro y Juana) were recently selected for this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program.
Frida Escobedo, Rozana Montiel, LANZA Atelier, and Others Design Artistic Interventions in an Under-Construction Mexico City Building
Organized by itinerant gallery guadalajara90210, the show Pabellón de las Escaleras (Stairs Pavilion) recently opened for art and design fair Zona Maco.
10 of Our Favorite Designs, Exhibitions, and Hot Spots from Mexico City's Zona Maco
From furniture collections and objets d’art to open studios and other unclassifiable collaborations, Metropolis gives you the lowdown on all things design at Zona Maco.
Photographer Candida Höfer Captures Grand Mexican Architecture in New Exhibition
Candida Höfer – In Mexico, on view at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York City through March 16, continues the artist’s decades-long investigation of architecture’s psychological effects.
New Book Explores the Mexican Artist-Designer Whose Medium Was Public Space
Mathias Goeritz: Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico contextualizes Goeritz’s art within the cultural and political transformations of Latin America.
How Mexico's 2017 Earthquake Galvanized Its Architecture Community
As part of our 2018 Design Cities issue, Metropolis looked at projects, firms, and places that are driving global design culture today.
A ’90s-Era Mexico City Residence is Reimagined as a Stunning Retreat
Designed by Mexican architects Ezequiel Farca and Cristina Grappin, the Magnolia House accommodates—and anticipates—changing family lifestyles.
How a Small Mexico City Exhibition Fueled a Debate About Preservation and Power
A small yet ambitious exhibition at Archivo presents a proposal to relocate the murals of a Mexico City building to the state’s contested airport project.
10 Mexican Designers You Should Know from Mexico’s Largest Art and Design Fair
These Mexican designers, who unveiled new collections at Zona Maco last week, play with tradition to make cutting edge, contemporary works.
Zaha Hadid Architects Breaks Ground on Mexico City's Tallest Residential Tower
At more than 50 stories, the Bora Residential Tower in Mexico City's Santa Fe neighborhood will offer great views and programmatic flexibility.
The City Is Out There: A Mexico City Exhibit Goes Beyond Its Walls
La Ciudad Está Allá Afuera, an ongoing show at the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center, uses art and architecture as a lens through which to explore the Mexican capital’s many realities.
These Mexico City Developers Preserve Landmarks & Battle Gentrification
This developer is bringing new life to Mexico City’s historic neighborhoods—but keeping focus on equitable, sustainable growth.
Will 2017 Be Mexico City's Watershed Moment?
The CoRE Urban Forum brought international experts and local actors together to catalyze change in this pivotal moment in the city's history.
Q&A: Gabriella Gomez-Mount, Laboratorio Para la Ciudad (Part 2)
Mexico City’s urban think tank provides lessons in urban innovation to metropolises around the world
Q&A: Gabriella Gomez-Mount, Laboratorio Para la Ciudad (Part 1)
An interview with Gabriella Gomez-Mont, an artist, writer, documentarian, and curator who became the founder and director of a new government department centered around urban creativity and civic innovation in Mexico City, the Laboratorio Para la Ciudad
Centro University's LEED Platinum Campus Emphasizes Transparency and Community
A quest for educational legacy provided the inspiration for Centro, a design and creative industries university in Mexico City.
"Architects Have to Learn to Speak Less and to Listen More"
The particularities of place and context should be among architects' foremost preoccupations, say the Mexico City-based designers.
The Metropolis Guide to Mexico City's Design Landscape
With their feet planted in their heritage, ears open to international trends, and eyes firmly set upon the future, the city’s designers and architects are poised for the spotlight.
