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architectnews · 3 years

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Blue co-housing complex by Productora fits eight units onto two Denver lots

Architecture firm Productora has completed a small housing complex in Denver, Colorado, that provides eight units with shared amenities on a lot that would typically accommodate only two single-family homes.

Located at the corner of East 36th Avenue and North Merion Street, just north of downtown Denver, the project was commissioned by real estate developer Continuum Partners in collaboration with local non-profit Biennial of the Americas.

The housing complex sits on the corner of two streets in North Denver

"This experimental project is located in the first belt of low-density neighborhoods surrounding downtown Denver at only two miles of the city centre," said Productora. "It provides centrally located, low-cost housing for individuals or couples while integrating within the morphology of the suburban environment."

The team realised that buildings designed as single-family homes in areas such as North Denver are often shared by multiple smaller households. The goal of this project was to better reflect the reality of residents' living arrangements.

Two identical sets of houses have mirrored layouts

"The project acknowledges how larger single-family residences in well-located neighborhoods are frequently shared by roommates and friends, and was designed to cater to those needs," Productora explained.

Their design comprises two identical sets of houses with mirrored layouts. A larger volume sits at the front the lot, facing the street, and contains three studios and a shared kitchen and living room. At the back of the property, two accessory dwelling units – or ADUs – bring the total number of units to eight.

External materials are left blue to save on costs

"Integrating shared kitchen and living room, laundry areas, a powder room, and paved outdoor areas, the project stages a subtle balance between the need for privacy and the possibility of social interaction," Productora added.

Each of the studios enjoys its own ensuite, as well as a kitchenette and second sink. The ground floor is set up with a communal area that includes a full kitchen, and enough space for shared meals. These face each other and can open out to a shared patio via sliding glass doors.

Kitchen and living areas are designed to be shared between residents

"The front houses have double-height entrance areas, and the communal kitchen and living areas have large glazed surfaces to interact with each other," the architects explained.

Gabled roofs echo the typical profile of neighbouring buildings. However, these are much steeper and stand out through their shade of bright blue.

According to the architects, this is the standard colour in which the materials were provided, which allowed them to reduce construction costs. Matching the roofs, the exterior wooden facades are clad in vertical boards and battens finished in a similar hue.

To meet the limited budget, Productora used standard details throughout all four buildings. Still, the interiors offer light-filled and unpretentious living spaces.

Neutral interiors contrast the buildings' bold blue facades

Productora is based in Mexico City, with offices in New York City and Los Angeles, where the firm frequently collaborate with Part Office.

Increasing density and house prices in cities, along with changing demographic trends, have increased interest in co-living arrangements. Other examples include a micro-apartment concept in Seoul that is meant to be a "blank canvas" for residents, and a house in London that was reconfigured to offer living and rehearsal spaces to seven music students.

The photography is by Onnis Luque.

Project credits:

Architectural design: Productora (Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Víctor Jaime, Abel Perles) Local architect and contractor: Joe Dooling (DDB) Collaborators: Ruy Berumen, Emiliano Rode, Tessa Watson

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delhi-architect2 · 4 years

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Journal - 10 Firms Leading Mexico’s Vibrant Architecture Scene

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The air is hot and thick; the pollution so bad it clouds the lungs and the eyes. Day and night, roads are traffic-jammed, streets are messy, and the sidewalks are so crooked you more stumble than walk to your destination. Outside the center, some still live without power, laws or sanitation.

This is Mexico City: the 20-million-people metropolis, one of the world’s largest and most complicated urban areas — and one of the most exciting places for contemporary architecture today.

Mexico: A hot spot of contemporary architecture. Top: Artist Gabriel Orozco’s House, designed by him with architect Tatiana Bilbao. Photo via; bottom: A house by young Mexican firm PRODUCTORA, photo: Iwan Baan via.

A 21st century phenomenon, Mexico City (or DF, as it is locally referred to) is constantly changing, supplying a sea of opportunities for edgy, adventurous architects. The young architecture scene is different here, too. It relies on paths set by modern era’s founding fathers (read our recent post on Mexican modernists here), while commenting on current socio-political issues in original, sensitive, and innovative ways. With an overload of creativity and a growing economy, new firms and studios are opening rapidly, and even attracting workers from other Spanish-speaking countries.

So what defines Mexico’s expanding architectural generation? Read through for an introduction to the work of Frida Escobedo, PRODUCTORA, Periférica, Dear Architects, Alberto Kalach, and others, followed by an exclusive look into Harvard GSD’s recent studio on Mexico City’s future monorail system.

1. Dear Architects

Founded by partners Margarita Flores and Rubén Sepúlveda (both graduates of masters programs in the AA, London), Dear Architects specializes in residential projects. The Mexico City-based firm’s up-to-date minimalism evokes such Japanese designers as Sou Fujimoto and SANAA, but is less formally rigid.

Among the group’s latest projects, now in construction, is “Enterpinos”—a group of houses on a hillside in Valle de Bravo. Previously, Dear Architects designed houses in Monterrey, Santa Catarina, and more.

No colors, only light and form. Dear Architects’ “Casa 4 Planos” in Santa Catarina, Mexico. Photo by Karen Mendoza / Dear Architects via

Section of Dear Architects’ project “CECOM” (2011). Image via Dear Architects

2. Frida Escobedo

A rising star in her homeland and abroad, Frida Escobedo is one of the most interesting and successful architects practicing in DF today. Escobedo, born in 1979, graduated from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and represented Mexico in the architecture biennale of Venice in 2012.

Escobedo’s works vary in scale, program and approach, ranging from a tiny home in Acapulco to a restoration and redesign of a modernist hotel and a museum. They are outstanding in their attention to details, their use of textures and many colors, and their strong sense of modern history—visible in her successful work on the Hotel Boca Chica and the La Tallera Siqueiros museum.

Escobedo’s revamped hotel “Boca Chica,” one of Acapulco’s rare modernist gems. Photos via and via

“Casa Negra” in Acapulco, by Escobedo (in collaboration with Alejandro Alarcón). Photo via Frida Escobedo

Entrance to “La Tallera Siqueiros,” a museum by Escobedo in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. Photo via

3. TAX / Alberto Kalach

Though hardly a young or emerging firm, it’s impossible to ignore TAX (“Taller de Arquitectura X”) when considering contemporary architecture in Mexico. TAX is a Mexico City-based office founded by Alberto Kalach and Daniel Álvarez in 1981 (Alvarez left the firm in 2002). Its most influential project to date is still the Jose Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City— one of the largest, most expensive public projects in Latin America’s recent history.

The library was criticized for its enormous cost—money, its detractors said, that could have been used more efficiently for solving real city problems. It also had to close down for some renovations, right after it opened. Controversies aside, the library is an extraordinary piece of architecture—poetic and astonishing.

Its section in particular, using hung bookshelves, is a work of art. Other projects include private homes in California, schools, and a Natural History Museum. In all, it is clear to see a strong sense of style combining Mexican culture and global contemporary design.

A view of “Casa California”, a private home by TAX. Photo via

Exterior and interior of the Jose Vasconcelos Library. Photos by Yoshihiro Koitani, courtesy of TAX (see the full featured project here)

4. Taller De Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha

Mauricio Rocha’s office, Taller De Arquitectura, is, like TAX, pretty well established, but it is still a key figure in the contemporary architectural scene of Mexico. The office was founded in 1990, when Rocha was still collaborating with the office of his father, architect Manuel Rocha Díaz. Rocha made his name with projects like the Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the House for Abandoned Children — both in the Ixtapalapa district in Mexico City.

In these, he placed ultra-designed environments in an area that was considered poor and problematic, though developing. Rocha tends to use raw materials such as hardwood and stone, and incorporates a visual language that draws from modernism as well as from vernacular Mexican styles and methods.

Rocha’s Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Mexico City. All photos courtesy of Taller de Arquitectura via Archdaily.com

The School of Visual Arts of Oaxaca by Taller de Arquitectura. Photo courtesy of Taller de Arquitectura via Archdaily.com

Campamento de Edificios Públicos, Taller de Arquitectura’s project from 2004. Photo courtesy of Taller de Arquitectura via Archdaily.com

5. Productora

A cool, innovative and very stylish young office based in Mexico City, Productora was established in 2006 by four young guys: Abel Perles (1972, Argentina), Carlos Bedoya (1973, Mexico), Victor Jaime (1978, Mexico), and Wonne Ickx (1974, Belgium). As its name suggests, Productora emphasizes physical research and production or manufacturing.

This can be seen in the studio’s attention to details and small human scale, with examples like small exhibition designs and installations, or the A-47 mobile art library. If you happen to visit Mexico City in the near future, do yourself a favor and have a drink at the hyped Celeste Champagne & Tea Room, designed by these guys in 2010.

The Celeste Champagne & Tea Room by Productora. A popular spot in the Mexican Capital. Photo via

A47 – A mobile art library designed by Productora. Photo via

A re-use of an old fiberglass roof in one of Productora’s projects. Photo courtesy of Productora via Archdaily.com

A private residence by Productora in Chihuahua, Mexico. Photo by Iwan Baan, courtesy of Productora via Archdaily.com

6. Tatiana Bilbao

At the age of 40, Tatiana Bilbao is the head of one of the more successful offices in Mexico City today. Her works combine an incredibly high level of design with interesting programmatic situations, in content and in scale. An example of her work is the unusual design for Gabriel Orozco’s home and swimming pool (designed in collaboration with the artist).

Along with other residential, commercial, and public buildings, Bilbao is a highly esteemed designer with an extraordinary sculptural ability. She participated in the widely covered project “Ordos 100” in Ordos, China, an insta-city of villas with a master plan by Ai Wei Wei and H&dM. There she designed house number 43, a dog-trot house sliced into sections (see diagram below).

Bilbao’s diagram for her Ordos 100 project, House #43. Image via

A view of Gabriel Orozco’s house, designed by the artist with architect Tatiana Bilbao. Photo via

A research building designed by Bilbao at the Tec de Monterrey campus in Culiacán, Mexico. Photo via

7. Periférica

Founded by Rozana Montiel, Periferica is a young and ambitious firm that’s active in different disciplines, from conceptual projects like imaginary public playgrounds to neighborhood master plans and houses. Noticeable is its approach to detailed public spaces, social engagement, and sustainable design. The studio’s website is a project on its own and worth checking out.

A rendering of Gosta Museum Extension, part of a competition entry by Periferica. Image via

One of four “roadside modules” by Periferica. Photo via

8. AMET / AMBROSI + ETCHEGARAY

AMET is the joint-force firm led by architects Jorge Ambrosi and Gabriela Etchgaray. The young office, based in the Colonia Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, has built several residential projects—single-family homes and apartment buildings—as well as spa-houses. A common ground for all projects is the emphasis on tectonics and simple materials, referencing American case-study architecture of the mid-century.

A direct visual reference to case-study houses of mid-century California: AMET’s “Spa San Ángel” in Mexico City. Photo by Luis Gordoa via amet.mx

Facade compositions in one of AMET’s apartment buildings in Mexico City. Photo by Luis Gordoa via amet.mx

A play on volumes, voids, materials and plants inside “Casa Buhos”, an apartment building by AMET. All photos by Luis Gordoa via

9. MMX

A collaborative studio established in 2009, MMX is led by Jorge Arvizu, Ignacio del Rio, Emmanuel Ramirez, and Diego Ricalde. The firm works in varied scales—from small interventions and pavilions to landscape design—and is active in Mexico and internationally. MMX’s aesthetic puts emphasis on construction details and design, using precasts and triangular geometry.

Concrete manipulations in MMX’s “CSC house 1”. Photo via

Model detail of MMX’s design for a tower in Taiwan. Image via

10. Derek Dellekamp

Dellekamp’s office in Mexico City, founded in Colonia Condesa in 1999, puts a lot of effort into research and collaborations with different disciplines, such as landscape engineering and industrial and graphic design. The practice is responsible for about one dozen built projects, among them houses and pavilions, as well as a design for House #16 in the project Ordos 100.

Dellekamp’s villa design for the Ordos 100 project. Renderings via

A detail of Dellekamp’s elegant apartment building in the luxurious Polanco neighborhood in Mexico City. Photo via

Thanks to the Francisco Quiñones, Victor Rico Espínola, Adriana Chavez and the Latin GSD group for their advice. This article was originally published in 2013 and some of the facts within the content may differ accordingly.

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elenaandevelyn · 5 years

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CROSSING BORDER (2005) by Office KGDVS Mexico - USA Border Crossing (2005) by Office KGDVS in collaboration with Wonne Ickx is a proposal for a passport control checkpoint located at the border of Mexico and the US, it was submitted and won first prize at The 7th International Arquine Competition. This project is conceptually designed as a utopia detaching from the physical and philosophical reality. As a result of idealisation and utopianisation, it demonstrates a strong imagery of contradistinction which distinguishes itself from its landscape as well as the actuality of the politics. Located in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by the hot and dry Tex-Mex landscape, pavilions and palm trees enclosed in the oblong white walls monumentally erected from the ground like a tropical oasis thriving in the middle of a desert, raising curiosity and desire for the promised land. The interior spatial quality is what one would deem idyllic; in a true utopian manner, lush palm trees are organised in a grid-like structure, contained in four pristine white walls. It is in these four walls that the presence of the Mexico-US border is being re-negotiated, feeding into the elusive fantasy on the land of freedom and equality, in which it contradicts the reality of the border-crossing experience: a public display of discrimination, prejudice, confrontation and constant surveillance. Border Crossing is a public space that goes against factual data, modeled to resist regulations and insist on democracy and equality by transforming the border-crossing experience between Mexico and the US, providing a space of transparency and leisure, luxuriant vegetation and tranquility, it is designed to defuse tension and redefine the relationship between individual and control, a space where confliction and antagonism is collectively reframed as disagreement.

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mainprjkt · 7 years

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project _ Office KGDVS _ Border Crossing

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Because this project is fascinating and it’s intellectual content comes as much from the images as the architect’s written words, they are copied below:

“An oblong volume provides a border crossing for pedestrians between Mexico and the US, and interrupts the endless demarcated boundary. A nine-metre high wall defines a no-man’s-land between the two countries. Within the white walls a grid of palm trees imposes order on a large, shaded garden. Pavilions for passport control and administration are spread around here and there, becoming part of the garden. The oasis is a point of reference in the vast Tex-Mex landscape, its content hidden from the open landscape by its massive walls. In all its simplicity it raises questions about the desire for the promised land. Open competition, first prize. In collaboration with Wonne Ickx.”

#architecture #design #design content #design intellectualism #image #borders #liminal space #garden #office kgdvs #boarder crossing

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sixthreethree · 8 years

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Wonne Ickx is a cofounder of PRODUCTORA, formed in 2006 with Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya, and Victor Jaime. Ickx is also a cofounder of LIGA, Space for Architecture, an independent platform that promotes emerging Latin American architects. In his lecture, he will discuss the cross-contamination between these two practices, focusing on the studio’s first cultural infrastructure projects, a theater space in Cuernavaca and a community center and museum in Oaxaca; and its first project in the U.S., a residential remodel and addition in Los Angeles. Ickx will also discuss the exhibition Spaces Without Drama, curated by LIGA and opening in February, 2017 at the Graham Foundation in Chicago, which addresses the relationship between architecture and theatricality, taking Aldo Rossi’s Little Scientific Theater (1979) as a central reference point to develop new commissions. PRODUCTORA has won many awards for its work, including the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects in 2007, the Emerging Voices Award in 2013, and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Architects in 2016. He has taught at UCLA and at several universities in Mexico; currently, he is a design critic in architecture at Harvard GSD for the Spring 2017 semester.

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atuancedecore · 7 years

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Residência Fleischmann / PRODUCTORA

Arquitetos: PRODUCTORA

Localização: Los Angeles, Estados Unidos

Autores: Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Víctor Jaime, Abel Perles

Colaboradores: Juan Luis Rivera, Peter Boldt

Arquiteto Associado: John Chan

Área: 220.0 m2

Ano Do Projeto: 2017

Fotografias: Rory Gardiner

Engenheiro Estrutural: IDG Ingeniería Estructural; Farshid Behshid

Paisagismo: Terremoto; David Godshall

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ac-explorations · 6 years

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Kersten Geers, EPFL, 2014, Architecture Without Content 9: The difficult Double

https://www.learningforms.org/architecture-without-content-9-the-difficult-double/

Invitation de 20 architectes invités à parler d’un autre architecte.

Pour Jacques Lucan, cela montre chez cette génération d’architecte de la conciliation entre nécessité de la culture et nécessité de se déprendre. Une aporie / paradoxe.

1- Pier Paolo Tamburelli : McKim Mead and White

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuU0mfkLl7M

2- Pascal Flammer : Kazuo Shinohara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ehXlTjuYY

3- Jan de Vylder : Eric Owen Moss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl_15UGCCDY

4- Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (atelier Bow-Wow) : Robert Venturi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jmIW9Js9PA

5- Martino Tattara (DOGMA) : Giovanni Battista Piranesi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4r5R7zANOI

6- Emanuel Christ (Christ & Gantenbein) : Hans Poelzig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jmIW9Js9PA

7- Frida Escobedo : Alvaro Siza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umSGsN5o2BU

8- Oliver Thill (Atelier Kempe Thill) x Heinrich Tessenow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obxV0JGh_RQ

9- Mark Lee (Johnston Marklee) x Frank O. Gehry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6nyUQwxw_c

10- Michael Meredith (MOS) x The New York Five

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2c9QLnIPM8

11- Go Hasegawa x Kazunari Sakamoto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2c9QLnIPM8

12- Wilfried Kuehn (KuehnMalvezzi) x Carlo Molino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRAsgF9BqPc

13- Elli Mosayebi (EMI Architekten) x Luigi Caccia Dominioni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdhRybvUW6A

14- Wonne Ickx (Productora) x Ricardo Legorreta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeSSdTy53Xw&list=PLmNCkXSZPShoOakmzUL-o3KOAaVU6cXeo&index=7

15- Sam Jacob (FAT Architecture) x John Soane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Cgm3kmoXA&list=PLmNCkXSZPShoOakmzUL-o3KOAaVU6cXeo&index=8

16- Bijoy Jain (Studio Mumbai) x Louis I. Kahn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax0mTBpAzEg&index=9&list=PLmNCkXSZPShoOakmzUL-o3KOAaVU6cXeo

17- Bas Princen x Luigi Ghirri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQbYb0Dyexc&index=12&list=PLmNCkXSZPShoOakmzUL-o3KOAaVU6cXeo

18- Point Supreme x Elia Zenghelis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HuhymR-X14&index=14&list=PLmNCkXSZPShoOakmzUL-o3KOAaVU6cXeo

19- Faiden x Abalos - Herreros

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HulpHm44Krg&list=PLmNCkXSZPShoOakmzUL-o3KOAaVU6cXeo&index=19

20- François Charbonnet (Made In Sarl) x Jean Nouvel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy5k5wltajM&list=PLmNCkXSZPShoOakmzUL-o3KOAaVU6cXeo&index=20

#kersten geers #epfl #jacques lucan

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metalfurniture · 6 years

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Nice design by Wonne Ickx - Productora

#maniera #productora

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juliandmouton30 · 7 years

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Productora builds Mexican centre for archeology and textiles using tinted concrete

Mexican architecture firm Productora has used pigmented concrete walls, brickwork steps and timber-framed windows to construct this museum and library in Oaxaca.

Productora designed the Community Cultural Centre for Teotitlán del Valle – a small village at the foothills of the Sierra Juárez mountains.

The project aims to celebrate the heritage of the community, which was established in 1495 and is known for textile production – particularly weaving and natural dying techniques. The area is also home to a large archeological site that is a popular tourist destination.

Built as two separate volumes on a stepped site, the museum and library comprise a material palette chosen to complement the hues of nearby buildings – like red brickwork and orange rendering – and stone-paved public plazas around the village.

Concrete walls are pigmented and textured with the imprints of vertical wooden planks, and also remain exposed inside. Other materials – including timber, brickwork and clay – are all sourced locally from the surrounding area.

"In formal terms, the project is governed by the aesthetics of the immediate context, which determine the height, colour, and materials used," said Productora. "The architectural volumes present austere, neutral facades."

Curving at the front of the site to face the town's main square, the museum occupies the largest and most prominent volume.

A large set of brick steps with a timber handrail occupy a large void in the building, to join the plaza with another on the lower level.

"This helps to improve the pedestrian routes passing across the site and connecting with the main square, inserting the new public spaces created by the Cultural Center into the circuit of existing plazas that define the urban structure of the village," said the studio.

The stairway separates the three-story building into two areas, with the reception and gift store, archeology storage and a multi-purpose room on one side.

The other side hosts three floors of exhibition spaces, which are accessed by a curved concrete staircase. At the top, glazed doors open onto a terrace that is also carved out of the building's shape.

The two-storey library has a more simple layout, with separate reading areas for children and adults on the ground floor, and a computer room on the level above.

Productora's choice of board-marked concrete walls and sloped roofs for the Community Cultural Centre has many similarities to the firm's triangular concert hall in Cuernavaca, central Mexico, which is also located beside an archeological site.

The studio said that along with aesthetic aims, the design aids natural air flow in the building to make it a comfortable space in Mexico's warm climate.

"The form and material character of the building, including double-slab sloping roofs, 30-centimetre-thick concrete walls, and controlled openings, create a passive system that responds to the adverse climatic conditions," said Productora.

"This basic strategy helps to regulate the temperature inside the building and provides users with a comfortable space to read a book, work or visit the museum, and at the same time eliminates the need to install air conditioning systems."

Photography is by Luis Gallardo.

Triangular concert hall by Productora and Isaac Broid takes cues from Aztec ruins

Project credits:

Architects: Productora Project team: Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Abel Perles, Víctor Jaime Collaborators: Rosalía Yuste, Josue Palma, Pamela Martínez, Antonio Espinoza, Andrés Rivadeneyra, Iván Villegas Contractor: Bonarq (Ismael Rojas) Structural engineering: Kaltia Consultores (Verónica Correa) and DAE (Juan Felipe Heredia) Technical engineering: BioE (Alejandro Lirusso) Landcaping: Entorno Taller de Paisaje (Hugo Sánchez)

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endlessarchite · 7 years

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Remodeling and Extension of a Bungalow in Los Angeles, California, USA

This remodeling and extension of a bungalow that dates back to 1920 and which has an area of 220 square meters, was carried out in 2017 by the architectural firm of PRODUCTORA by the hand of its architects Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, and Abel Perles in the well-known city of Los Angeles, California, […]

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architectnews · 3 years

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Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Studio

Richard & Dion Neutra VDL Studio, Modern Building LA Photos, Design News, California Property Pictures

Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Studio/residences

Modern House Los Angeles, United States of America – 20th Century US Architecture

September 8, 2021

VDL House Reopening 2021

Neutra VDL Studio and Residence Reopening 2021

Since February 2020, Noam Saragosti – director of the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences – and partner Juhee Park and have been quietly caring, planning, gardening, and teaching student docents remotely. They are thrilled to announce that The Neutra VDL Studio and Residences will safely reopen its doors after a year and a half of closure to the public.

After a long hiatus, the VDL will once again hold public events, cultural exchanges, and architectural tours. Despite this trying year, they have been busy working on new and exciting events and exhibitions.

Student-led Saturday tours will start on September 25th, 2021

The tours must be reserved through the online calendar on our website. Tour groups are limited to 5 guests maximum, and must be scheduled guest-by-guest.

30-minute tours are $15/person for adults, and $10 for seniors/students/faculty. Tours are free for children under 15, press, and Cal Poly Pomona students, faculty and staff.

All proceeds from the tours go towards the maintenance and restoration of the house. You can book your appointments here.

The house’s reopening will coincide with a new exhibition and related programming that we will announce shortly. We invite you to support our preservation and programming efforts at the VDL by making an online donation.

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Oct 25 + 16, 2017

Neutra VDL Studio and Residence Book Presentation

LIGA book presentation at Neutra VDL House

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“Architecture Exposed” LIGA book presentation

Saturday, October 28th 2017 from 4-6pm

Neutra VDL Research House 2300 Silver Lake Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90039

The Neutra VDL House invites you to the launch of the second book of LIGA, Space for Architecture, Mexico City. The volume “Architecture Exposed” has the exhibition of architecture as its central theme.

Founding directors Wonne Ickx and Ruth Estevez, will engage in a conversation with architecture critic, historian and curator Sylvia Lavin on curating architecture.

The book reviews the recent exhibitions and interludes organized at LIGA in Mexico City and includes essays by Agnaldo Farias (University of Sao Paolo), Barry Bergdoll (MoMA), Carlos Mínguez Carrasco (Storefront NYC), Daniel Fernández Pascual (Cooking Sections), Florencia Rodriguez (PLOT), Anna Puigjaner + Guillermo López (MAIO), Paola Santoscoy (Museo Experimental El Eco), Rory Hyde (Victoria & Albert Museum), Tina DiCarlo (Princeton University) and Wonne Ickx (LIGA). The book is published by Park Books, and will be internationally available from January 2018.

LIGA, Space for Architecture, is an independent initiative founded in Mexico City in 2011 by Carlos Bedoya, Ruth Estévez, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaimes and Abel Perles that promotes Latin American contemporary architecture through exhibitions, conferences and workshops. LIGA was created as a curatorial platform in order to stimulate the experimentation in relation to the architectural discipline and its possibilities as a discursive practice, expanding and establishing connections with other disciplines.

Sep 12, 2017

Neutra VDL Studio and Residence Exhibition News

Opening September 23: Tu Casa es mi casa at the VDL House

Tu casa es mi casa

September 23, 2017 through January 17, 2018

Opening: Saturday September 23, 6-9 p.m.

Neutra VDL Research House

2300 Silver Lake Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90039

image courtesy of Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Studio/residences

Join the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Archivo Dise��o y Arquitectura, and the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences for the opening of Tu casa es mi casa, an exhibition that connects two modernist houses in Los Angeles and Mexico City via the exchange of texts, objects, and installations by contemporary writers and architects/artists.

Three California-based writers–Aris Janigian, Katya Tylevich, and David Ulin-were asked to craft a letter to one of the three Mexico City-based design teams–Frida Escobedo, Pedro&Juana, and Tezontle–who responded with site-specific installations at the Neutra VDL House.

If our contemporary political moment offers up a border wall as the primary architectural expression of connection between the U.S. and Mexico, Tu casa es mi casa suggests a more porous boundary between the two countries. The title, a riff on the welcoming “my house is your house”, offers the inverted “your house is my house”–an expression of the personal and political stakes of this transposition.

Architects: Frida Escobedo, Pedro&Juana, Tezontle

Writers: Aris Janigian, Katya Tylevich, David Ulin

Photographer: Adam Wiseman

Curated by Mario Ballesteros, Andrea Dietz, Sarah Lorenzen, Mimi Zeiger

Organizational collaborators: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Archivo Diseno y Arquitectura, and the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences. The Neutra VDL Studio and Residences is preserved and managed by the College of Environmental Design (ENV) at Cal Poly Pomona.

Tu casa es mi casa is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Crosby Doe Associates / Architecture for Sale Magazine, Bestor Architecture, Michael Maltzan Architects, NAC Architecture, TEN Arquitectos with additional support from Aesop, Angel City Brewery, Bar Keeper and Mezcal Unión, Triview Glass Industries LLC, Cal Poly Pomona Department of Architecture (CPP ARC), Sci-Arc, USC School of Architecture, and Woodbury University School of Architecture.

PUBLIC EVENTS

Time and locations to be confirmed.

Wednesday, September 20

Lecture: Frida Escobedo

USC School of Architecture

https://arch.usc.edu/calendar/lecture-frida-escobedo

Friday, September 22

Roundtable panel discussion with the artists, writers, and curators

SCI-Arc

https://sciarc.edu/events/

Saturday, September 23

Opening 6-9 p.m

Neutra VDL Research House

http://neutra-vdl.org/site/tucasamicasa_01.asp?911201715367

Monday, September 25

Lecture: Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky Reuss, Pedro&Juana

College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona

https://www.cpp.edu/env/

For more information on the exhibition visit Tu casa es mi casa at VDL

Apr 11, 2017

Neutra VDL Studio and Residence Event

homeLA and ENTER>text present One House Twice at the Neutra VDL House

homeLA and ENTER>text present One House Twice at the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences (VDL) Saturday, May 6th, 2017 shows: 4:00pm, 6:00pm, 8:00pm

ENTER>text and homeLA are pleased to announce a collaboration with the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences (VDL Research House) culminating in an immersive performance event on Saturday, May 6th, 2017. Dance, literary, performance, installation and sound artists are currently developing new works in response to this distinctive architecture and National Historic Landmark.

Neutra VDL House The Neutra Studio and Residences (VDL Research House) is associated with Richard Neutra, a nationally and internationally seminal figure of the twentieth century Modern movement in architecture. During the 1940s, as Neutra’s work evolved, he also became the well-recognized founder of mid-century “California Modern” architecture. The VDL Research House is the only property where one can see the progression of his style over a period of years and is among the key properties to understanding the national significance of Richard Neutra. This year the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences was named a National Historic Landmark.

homeLA provides a platform to independent dance, body-based, sound, and intermedia artists at various stages of their careers to develop new works and one-of-a-kind performances in response to the architecture and ethos of Los Angeles homes.

ENTER>text is a living literary journal, an immersive series of events where the audience is activated to seek out their own unique encounters with writers. Enter> text is directed by Henry Hoke and Marco Franco Di Domenico

Artists: Bernard Brown // Rebecca Bruno // Marco Franco DiDomenico // Morgan Green // Henry Hoke // Ashaki M. Jackson // Douglas Kearney // Mak Kern with Mona Tavakoli and Cary Gallagher// Emily Marchand // Emily Meister // Wendy C. Ortiz // Andrew Pearson // Priyanka Ram // Erin Schneider // Wilfried Souly // Emerson Whitney

For more information visit homeLA’s website. Spaces limited, ticketed only

Neutra VDL House, 2300 Silver Lake Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039

Website: One House Twice at the Neutra VDL House

Dec 18, 2016

Neutra VDL Studio and Residence News

Installation & Exhibition at the Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Studio/residences

There are a number of art installations taking place in 2017:

• From the end of January 2017 until April artists Les Frères Chapuisat will have a wood art installation up in the courtyard of the Neutra VDL House.

• From mid September 2017 until mid March 2018 the Neutra VDL House will be hosting the exhibition Tu casa es mi casa funded by the Graham Foundation.

The Neutra VDL Studio and Residence was donated to the Cal Poly Pomona Foundation in 1990 (a non-profit organization classified as a tax-exempt organization pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code) and is under the stewardship of the College of Environmental Design (ENV) at Cal Poly Pomona. The primary mission of the College with respect to VDL is: to use the house as an educational resource for ENV students and faculty, to preserve and maintain the property, and to host cultural and artistic programs that strengthen the facility’s mission as a community resource.

TOURS: The Neutra VDL House is open for tours by Cal Poly Pomona architecture students on most Saturday from 11am-3pm. For more info on the Saturday tours, cultural programs and exhibitions visit Neutra VDL Studio and Residences.

Aug 15, 2009

Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Studio

Significance and Survival of Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Studio/residences

On November 20 2009 Richard Neutra’s youngest son Dr Raymond Richard Neutra will be talking at SciArc in Los Angeles about the Significance and Survival of the Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Studio/Residences compound in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. This live/work space was built in three phases.

View from VDL II toward the 1939 “Garden Wing”:

View of west elevation of VDLII:

The first designed by Richard Neutra in 1932 accommodated two households and Neutra’s office. It was named after Dutch industrialist van der Leeuw who loaned Neutra the money to build it (hence “VDL”) The second phase was designed by Richard Neutra in 1939 and accommodated another household. In 1963 a fire destroyed the upper floors of the first phase, and Richard Neutra with his son and partner Dion Neutra designed a replacement for that wing (VDLII) on the original prebricated prestressed concrete basement floor which was preserved to house an apprentices room and dark room.

The compound was built on a 60 x 70 foot lot and addressed a number of design questions that are still relevant today: How can we create a beautiful live/work space for multiple households on a small footprint? How can we design landscape so that it beings nature with its sights sounds and smells into this kind of urban dwelling? How can we use new sustainable industrial materials in a beautiful way? How can the social and biological sciences inform our design?

Dr Neutra, Professor Lorenzen (resident direct of VDL) Leo Marmol and Chris Shanley in front of the compound with its sun louvers:

View from patio toward VDLII:

Since 2007 Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design (owners of the compound), helped by the Friends of the VDL Research site has established an active web site ( www.neutra-vdl.org) explaining the significance of the compound, presenting plans and images and a video oral history of the place. A DVD on the compound has also been produced. A distinguished honorary committee with such distinguished architects as Tadao Ando, Richard Meier, Renzo Piano and IM Pei among others have indicated their regard for this historic compound. Architects Marmol and Radziner are working with Dion Neutra and the faculty at Cal Poly to repair the leaking roofs.

The college has started student-led drop-in tours for $10.00 every Saturday from 11am to 3:00 pm.

Julius Shulman signing digital archival prints of his portrait of Richard Neutra:

More that $60,000 has been raised and the distinguished architectural photographer, Julius Shulman before his recent death signed and numbered thirty five digital archival prints that he took of Neutra on the roof of the compound. Those who give leadership level gifts to the roof campaign can receive one of these prints in appreciation. (see www.neutra-vdl.org for information)

Illustrations: all by Raymond Richard Neutra

Careful fenestration of the living room blocks neighbor roofs and emphasizes trees and mountains:

Ripples from Reflection pool on second floor patio reflect light into the interior:

Frosted glass in Garden Wing Living room let’s in light but blocks view of neighbor:

Website: www.neutra-vdl.org

Location: Silver Lake, Los Angeles, Southern California, United States of America

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