Program

From Walls to Communities

In this lecture Fernanda will showcase her latest built work in Mexico. She will present projects done in the past 5 years, focusing on different programs and scales, and addressing the collective implications of individual buildings. She will speak about the challenges of working in cities where 70% of buildings are informal, and where the usefulness of an architect is rarely acknowledged, demanding to explore new ways of relating people, buildings and the environment. She will explain how every project leads to further research. For example, how the project for a family home turns into the study of the ideas behind the concept of dwelling and the impact of houses in cities, and how that in turn becomes an excuse to expand the relationship between planning and inhabiting. Fernanda will focus on projects done in border cities in the Sonora desert, that deal with public space, scarcity of resources, and the need to create a sense of appropriation and identity.