Una forma atemporal de construir / A Timeless Way to Build – INSITE journal issue dedicated to the work of Christopher Alexander and launched at the opening of the exhibit “The Mexicali Experimental Project”. It includes seventeen articles organized in seven sections.

01/10/2024

Journal Issue

Authors:

Georgina Cebey, Dorit Fromm, Aj Kim, Nancy Kwak, Felipe Orensanz, Alejandro Peimbert, Andrea Torreblanca, Peter Bosselmann, Pastizal Zamudio, Teddy Cruz, Cro Studio, Alejandro D'Acosta, Howard Davis, Michael Mehaffy, Lorenia Urbalejo, Alison B. Hirsh

Published in:

INSITE Journa_07, Vol. 7, pp. 340 pp

Editor:

Andrea Torreblanca

Publisher:

Installation Gallery (US) and INSITE Proyectos de Arte A.C. (Mexico)

Language:

Spanish, English

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Public Events 2 Items

El Sitio: A Timeless Way of Building 18/05/2023 to 20/05/2023

A newly commissioned pavilion by Mexicali-based architecture firms Veintedoce and Localista, which designed a platform for the event based on Alexander's ideas, Mexicali, BC, Mexico

Conference, Professional Event

Organized by:

INSITE Journal, as one of "The Sedimentary Effect" five-year project based in San Diego and Baja California, structured in three chapters: “Erratic Fields,” “A Timeless Way of Building,” and “The Spiritual Realm.” - Andrea Torreblanca, Curator

“El Sitio: A Timeless Way of Building” was a three-day event held in Mexicali, Baja California, at the builders yard, that was part of the low cost housing project built by Christopher Alexander and the Center for Environmental Structure from ...
Exhibition titled "The Mexicali Experimental Project" 09/11/2024 to 15/02/2025

Bread & Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

Exhibition

Organized by:

Andrea Torreblanca in collaboration with Felipe Orensanz

The exhibition presented the Mexicali project, built in 1975-76, and highlighted the early explorations of self-built social housing, as reflected by Alexander’s theories and thinking. It included new commissions with artists Pastizal Zamudio and Cynthia Hooper, and architects Marcel Sanchez ...