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18 Residences of Mexican Architects. Introduction by Enrique Yañez.

During his time as the National Institute of Fine Art’s Director of Architecture Enrique Yanez sponsored several publications referred to as contemporary architecture. The edition is bilingual, very simple, and contains a brief introduction by Yañez himself, alongside a brief curriculum of each of the 18 architects. This work also illustrates the same number of houses, being the residence of their designers.

This book’s key quality is that it gives graphic data for a series of works in their original state, many of which are now destroyed.
Louise Noelle Mereles

400 Years of Architecture in Mexico

This book has been edited in four languages (French, English, German and Spanish). It seeks to offer a vision on Mexican architecture since prehistoric times. Small explicative texts follow the numerous images, these being the ones that speak about the importance of national doings. Contemporary architecture occupies a preponderant place in this visual history covering two thirds of this book’s pages. Herein lies its importance because it shows the splendorous works of the times, some which have been lost or transformed. It should be said that Ciudad Universitaria is highly depicted in this work.
Louise Noelle Mereles

1990, Mexican Architecture, 10 Works.

Faced with a lack of fully depicted periodical publications, a group of 28 architects decided to publish this catalogue in ten simple issues. They are young designers who are currently seeking their own place and language within national architecture. This publication has ample introductory essays written by Humebrto Ricalde and Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon that attest to the quality of their professional exercise. Furthermore, each work has its own brief text, photographs and plants that help illustrate these new proposals.
Louise Noelle Mereles

The Architecture of Luis Barragán By Emilio Ambas, The Museum of Art, New York
In 1976, New York’s Art Museum organized an exhibit to portray the work of Luis Barragán, which definitely marked his international importance. Emilio Ambas was in charge of putting the catalogue together which, over a ten-year period, has acted as this architect’s only monograph. In effect, it is a prolifically illustrated book with pictures by Aramndo Salas Portugal. After a brief text about the designer and his background, the author analyzes in detail the seven works he considers to be the most significant ones. This book includes a catalogue of Barragán’s work, and although incomplete and inexact, it is the first one of its kind and has been an important reference source for future research.
Louise Noelle Mereles
The Architecture of Ricardo Legorreta, Wayne Attoe (ed). Comments by Ricardo Legorreta, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1990.

The work of Ricardo Legorreta is internationally known. This impressive publication confirms the fact. The book contains three small essays written by Sydney H. Brisker, Wayne Ateo and Charles W. Moore, although Ricardo Legorreta himself wrote the main feature. The texts are grouped under the general title of "Inspirations and Tradition in His Work", and are subdivided into chapters titled "Mysteries", "Light", "Color", "Murals", etc. The book is organized by themes, not chronology, and the architect explains the key works. Illustrated with a large number of colored photographs and some blueprints
Louise Noelle Mereles .

Architecture in Mexico City By Enrique Espinoza and Humberto Espíndola, Beatrice Trueblood

On account of the XIII International Architects Union Conference that took place in Mexico City in 1978, the organizing committee sponsored the publication of this guide. It contains monuments from pre-Hispanic times, colonial and modern, and their selection criteria was based on visit times and distances, and does not cover "all works of value". However, it does depict the variety and diversity of the national architectonic heritage, and thanks to the blueprints, the places are easy to locate. There are mistakes made about the building adjudication, yet in general it will greatly help people interested in the subject matter.
Louise Noelle Mereles

The Architecture of Manuel Gonzalez Rul By Igancio Maya Gómez and Jaime Torres Palacios

This monograph gets close to Manuel González Rul’s works. It uses image profusion, supported by scant explicative texts and some general level appreciations under the care of various well-known colleagues. The publication lacks an analytic text that expresses the relevance of this architect, and its design is confusing, as it does not clearly indicate the name of the works or the projects. It does not contain on site depictions, but, because of a useful Résumé, the curious reader will learn about the this architect’s varied work in one of the few printed materials available dedicated to him.
Louise Noelle Mereles

Architecture in Mexico, Igancio Maya Gómez and Jaime Torres Palacios

This work has an excessively ambitious title and concentrates on graphically speaking about thirty buildings constructed during the seventies. Text is almost inexistent and information with which to help identify the different examples portrayed in six chapters is incomplete: "Apartment Buildings", "Hotels", and "Others". The key problem of this book is the selection criteria used. Both the architect and buildings bear different qualities and relevance without having any common thread joining them. The book’s only worth is that it collects and shows different constructions, some of which have no other means of diffusion.
Louise Noelle Mereles

Bachelard, Gaston The Instant's Intuition. La Intuicion del Instante. Tr. Jorge Ferreiro, Original Title: L'Intuition de I'nstant. Paris, 1932, Editorial Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, D.F., 2nd. Edition in Spanish 1999.
Time as the dimension through which one passes; without having a clear awareness of its constitution, man walks between the future and that which was; this reading places us here in this intermediate, continuous particle which is in constant renewal: in the instant.
To conceive its nature gives us the certainty that we are owners of everything that is possible in the moment, where all the time forces meet and make existence be a deep act of recreation.
Adrián Baltierra Magaña

Bachelard, Gaston Space Poetics. La Poetica del Espacio. Tr. Ernestina de Champourcin: La poétique de l'espace. Paris, 1957, Editorial Fondo de Cultura Económica, Santiago de Chile, 1st Reprint in Chile, 1965.
To enter Space Poetics is to enter a sensitive world - to conceive that the contents lie all in the meaning, laden with magic and dreams. Here, living gathers the true sense of belonging to a place; we can communion with the universe in the intimacy of that which surrounds us, we find what walls tend to say. Yet, we can see on yonder, space has inhabitants; furniture also has souls storing narratives to be told. There is plenty a description of space's physical characteristics for the person seeking it out, it is the deepness of the being, we are part of the poetics that sheaths things, part of the poetics that make us feel the immensity of living.
Adrián Baltierra Magaña

Bachelard, Gaston Water and Dreams. El Agua y los sueños. Tr. Ida Vitale: L'eau et les reves. Essai sur l'imagination de la matiere. Paris 1942, Editorial Fondo de Cultura Económica, México D.F.
The exercise of imagining leads us down the ocean of dreams and into the profoundness of the being. The medium used: water – we reflect in it – therefore we participate in its properties. We travel in serene calmness in segments only, it is an instant before it awakens and moves with force and speed. From water's nature we learn its value as a vital element with traits that deliver the value of dreams, yet above all, they uncover us in the water's clarity emerging from the ground.
Adrián Baltierra Magaña

Cabrera, Isabel y Elia Nathan. (Compiladoras): Religion and Suffering. Religión y Sufrimiento. Edit. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM. México, 1996.
When we approach religion, we penetrate the faith of humanity's feelings. We then see the cosmovision that gives these feelings a sense of surpassing one's own existence. This is how perception, with the suffering that is implied in the religious context, weaves in and out each one of the book's articles without taking just a single stance on the subject. It trespasses any judgment as it tries to understand that when faced with the diversity of positions, religion tries to give pain some meaning. The communion point with architecture is found in the spiritual content of its pages. Without recipes nor formulas, each soul must value and interpret its meaning as much as it can, transforming it into buildable and transedental material for the spirit's eyes.
Adrián Baltierra Magaña

Caillois, Roger: Man and Sacredness. El Hombre y lo Sagrado. Fondo de Cultura Económica. México. 1996.
This book orders the types of relationships that grant sacredness to humanity's different society institutions. Furthermore, it covers the general relations between that which is sacred and that which is pagan until it places within its theoretical content sacredness as life's condition. Architecture can't help but suggest respect towards what has been built and suggests that special care must be given when making architectural interventions and proposals.
Marco Servín Leyva
Coppola Pignatelli Paola. I Luoghi dell' abitare. Analysis and Design of the Spaces Where We Live. Edit. Concepto S.A. Tr. Carla Povero. Mexico, DF. 1980
The book analyses the phenomenon of housing in a pragmatic or 'feminine' way. Space is seen in spontaneous architecture, built on daily rhythms and needs. The first part of the book is an exposé of the principle problems surfacing from research itself. Herein we see the author's conviction of the need of having to approach 'man's new housing', bearing in mind the life style of every individual. The second part of the book is an analysis of some of the problems exposed in the first part, being able to achieve a social, psychological and existential approximation with space. . .
From the psychological point of view, this research describes in its pages, house planning in terms of alternatives, offering the architect an approximation with psychological principles so they can be applied to the architectural project's research, design and evaluation. Psychology offers the architect the opportunity to develop architectural projects holistically. It also gives him/her the possibility of conceiving space that is beyond its physical form, proportions, material and color so as to perceive it as inhabited space.
Norma Gpe. Martinez Arzate

Dissertation of an Architect Prologue by Justino Fernandez

This book was originally published in 1920 and bears introductory tests by Alfonso Reyes and Federico Marsical. Its pages gathered the scant texts that this ill-fated architect left. The two conferences he dictated for the Conference Society are specially important (Ateneo de la Juventud), where he speaks his mind out on the need to create Mexican Architecture that bears pioneering feelings, yet, during the second intervention, he concludes by saying that this type of architecture should be inspired on the Colonial Construction. This work is complemented with other three articles, highlighting the one titled "Advantages and Inconveniences of the Architect’s Degree".
Louise Noelle Mereles