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Mexico CityManufactured Landscape/Urbanities, Centro Cultural de EspañaWednesday 26 June – Friday 5 July 2013The AA Mexico City Visiting School is an international programme that aims to engage with the most crucial and imposing challenges that Mexico City faces and the ways in which architecture and urbanism can shape the metropolis at different scales. In these sense the progamme sees the city as a laboratory where the virtual and experimental tradition of the Architectural Association finds…See More

AA Mexico City Visiting School 2012Prototypical NetworksMexico CitySummer (25/06/2012 to 06/07/2012)Centro Cultural de España Building upon a body of research established in its first year, the visiting school will continue its engagement with Mexico City from an infrastructural point of view taking advantage of the challenges and opportunities it poses/offers for the viability of one of the biggest metropolis on earth. The workshop will be constructed around key infrastructural issues such as…See More

AA Mexico City Visiting School 2012Prototypical NetworksMexico CitySummer (25/06/2012 to 06/07/2012)Centro Cultural de España Building upon a body of research established in its first year, the visiting school will continue its engagement with Mexico City from an infrastructural point of view taking advantage of the challenges and opportunities it poses/offers for the viability of one of the biggest metropolis on earth. The workshop will be constructed around key infrastructural issues such as…See More

The growing consciousness that a building is a device that performs primarily as an environmental regulator is shifting the focus of the discipline from tectonics to social and ecological processes: buildings establish the regime of energy exchange of the built environment by virtue of their geometry, their materiality etc… and therefore there is an opportunity to establish relationships between these performances and emerging architectural sensibilities and expressions.Within these lines, the…See More

AA Mexico City Visiting School 2012Prototypical NetworksMexico CitySummer (25/06/2012 to 06/07/2012)Centro Cultural de España Building upon a body of research established in its first year, the visiting school will continue its engagement with Mexico City from an infrastructural point of view taking advantage of the challenges and opportunities it poses/offers for the viability of one of the biggest metropolis on earth. The workshop will be constructed around key infrastructural issues such as…See More