Nueva Vivienda: New Housing Paradigms in Mexico maps a generational shift in Mexican housing design through 27 projects built over the last decade, tracing how a maturing architectural culture is beginning to shape global conversations about housing typology.
About This Book
In the decades following WWII, architects such as Juan O'Gorman and Luis Barragán translated European-American modernism into a distinctly Mexican idiom. Today, a new generation is inverting that relationship — exporting ideas forged from local cultural, environmental, and economic conditions into an international discourse. Nueva Vivienda documents this shift through 27 exemplary housing projects, supported by scholarly essays that contextualise the historical and theoretical stakes, and three extended conversations with architects, policy makers, and researchers. For practitioners and students engaged with housing design, urban typology, and the evolving trajectories of Latin American architecture, this is essential primary material.
Key Features
- 320 pages of project photography, floor plans, sections, axonometric views, and scholarly essays
- Authors: Jesús Vassallo and Sebastián López Cardozo
- 27 housing projects built in Mexico over the last ten years, documented in full
- Published by Park Books, ISBN 9783038602903
What You'll Discover
- How a post-WWII legacy — from O'Gorman's functionalism to Barragán's spatial poetry — informs and is being consciously departed from by contemporary Mexican architects
- The policy and urban design conditions that enabled a housing boom and a more sophisticated architectural culture in Mexico over the past decade
- How 27 specific projects rethink housing typology in response to local climate, economy, and cultural context rather than imported templates
- The ways in which lessons from Mexican housing practice are transferring — and being received — in European, North American, and broader global architectural discourse
About the Author
Jesús Vassallo is joined by co-author Sebastián López Cardozo in assembling this survey. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- Dimensions: 17.15 x 1.27 x 24.13 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783038602903
- Publisher: Park Books
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, housing researchers, urban designers, and students of Latin American architecture seeking a documented account of contemporary Mexican housing practice and its global relevance.