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Javier Sánchez (architect)

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Javier Sánchez is a Mexican developer and architect primarily known for contemporary construction in Mexico City, especially the Condesa neighborhood.[1] Sánchez is the founding partner and lead designer of the Mexico City firm JSª, known as Higuera + Sanchez from 1996-2007.[2] Obras magazine voted Sánchez one of the forty most influential architects of the past forty years.[1]

Biography

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Sánchez graduated with honors from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM), and received his master's degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in New York City.

Sánchez was at the vanguard of market urbanism in Mexico City. His firm, Higuera + Sánchez, bought a dilapidated warehouse in Condesa and created the city's first studio lofts, including communal space in the heart of the building. Such projects have been described as guerrilla architecture.[3]

Projects (partial list)

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Mexico City

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Centro Cultural de España, new wing (2012), Donceles street entrance

Additional works Most are apartment/condominium complexes unless otherwise noted.[5]

  • Ámsterdam 127, 235, 315, 309, 322, Centro Qi gymnasium
  • Chilpancingo 17
  • Nuevo León 113
  • Parque México 39
  • Tacámbaro 36
  • Teotihuacán 15
  • Veracruz 60 and complex at 79-81-83-85-91
  • Chihuahua 78
  • Mérida 49
  • Río de Janeiro 64
  • Zacatecas 90

Other areas

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  • Departamento Campos Elíseos
  • Departamento Portofino
  • Lamartine 336
  • Monte Casino
  • Museo del Estanquillo
  • Oficinas Apollo
  • Oficinas Bowker
  • Oficinas Rivera Gaxiola y Asociados
  • Parques Polanco apartments
  • Progreso 218
  • República de Cuba 41-43
  • Residencial Spartta
  • Sierra Mojada 355
  • Temístocles 12
  • Tres Picos
  • Universidad Claustro de Sorjuana

China

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  • "Greenhouse" residences, Inner Mongolia[9]

Peru

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  • El 22 Beach Housing, (2006) outside Lima - Winner of the Silver Medal of the XI Biennale of Mexican Architecture.[2][10]

In addition, Sánchez has designed projects in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, in Munich, Germany, and pavilions at the Venice Biennale.[11]

Academic commissions

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Society memberships

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  • Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "LOS 40 ARQUITECTOS MÁS INFLUYENTES DE LOS ÚLTIMOS 40 AÑOS", Obras
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Architect and CoA Visiting Professor Javier Sánchez discusses his work in Mexico City", University of Texas at San Antonio College of Architecture
  3. ^ "Guerrilla architecture updates Mexico City", Carol Strickland, The Christian Science Monitor, March 25, 2005
  4. ^ "Spain's Cultural Center", Architecture Daily
  5. ^ a b c d e "Javier Sánchez, Currículum", JSa website, retrieved 2013-07-22
  6. ^ "CURRENTS: ARCHITECTURE; Buildings That Don't Forget Air and Space", ELAINE LOUIE, New York Times, January 27, 2005
  7. ^ ""Proyectos: Parque España", JSa website". Archived from the original on 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2013-07-11.
  8. ^ ""Ficha Técnica" on "Torre Amsterdam", JSa website". Archived from the original on 2013-06-25. Retrieved 2013-07-22.
  9. ^ ""Proyectos: Greenhouse", JSa website". Archived from the original on 2013-07-11. Retrieved 2013-07-11.
  10. ^ "El 22", WikiArquitectura
  11. ^ ""Proyectos", JSa website". Archived from the original on 2013-07-08. Retrieved 2013-07-11.