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Fernanda Canales holds a PhD in Architecture (ETSAM, Madrid), an MA from the Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña (UPC, Barcelona) and a Bachelor degree from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City). She has been distinguished with several international awards, such as the Emerging Voices Award from The Architectural League of New York, the Career Award and the Best Young Architect Award in Mexico. She is author of the books Vivienda Colectiva en México (Gustavo Gili, 2017) and Architecture in Mexico 1900-2010: The Construction of Modernity (Arquine, 2013). Canales has been visiting faculty member at Yale School of Architecture, the Architectural Association School in London, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture in New York. Her work has been widely exhibited, among other venues, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the ifa-Gallery in Stuttgart, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Venice Biennale of Architecture. She has published more than 100 essays in specialized magazines such as AA Files, Baumeister, Bawelt, El Croquis, Praxis, Arquitectura Viva, Domus, and Arquine.

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Shared Structures. Private Spaces (ENG ED.)

Fernanda CanalesA case study that analyzes the relationship between ideas and houses, this book focuses on 100 years of housing projects in Mexico.

Housing in Mexico Fernanda Canales A case study that analyzes the relationship between ideas and houses, this book focuses on 100 years of housing projects in Mexico. The geographic, social, and economic diversity of Mexico constitute a prime example of the challenges inherent to meeting individual needs in an increasingly crowded world. The drawings and essays comprise new ways of looking at theories and buildings in order to redefine the connection between housing and the city. This research is centered in drawings of 70 housing projects, creating a common language highlighting different attempts at reinventing the house not as an isolated battle but as part of a strategy for reimagining how we want to live. This book showcases the pivotal voices that have shaped major cities through housing projects and explores how policies and ideas transform into built form, and how in turn buildings shape societies. Visit urbanNext for exclusive on-line content about this book Buy

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Estructuras Compartidas, Espacios Privados (SP ED.)

Fernanda CanalesA case study that analyzes the relationship between ideas and houses, this book focuses on 100 years of housing projects in Mexico.

Vivienda en México Fernanda Canales A case study that analyzes the relationship between ideas and houses, this book focuses on 100 years of housing projects in Mexico. The geographic, social, and economic diversity of Mexico constitute a prime example of the challenges inherent to meeting individual needs in an increasingly crowded world. The drawings and essays comprise new ways of looking at theories and buildings in order to redefine the connection between housing and the city. This research is centered in drawings of 70 housing projects, creating a common language highlighting different attempts at reinventing the house not as an isolated battle but as part of a strategy for reimagining how we want to live. This book showcases the pivotal voices that have shaped major cities through housing projects and explores how policies and ideas transform into built form, and how in turn buildings shape societies. Buy English edition

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Reimagining the Civic

Luis Callejas, Fernanda Canales, Stella BettsThis book investigates and describes the design challenges of three studios focused on different environments and social contexts.

Luis Callejas, Fernanda Canales, Stella Betts Reimagining the Civic investigates and describes the design challenges of three studios led by the three Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale School of Architecture: architect Fernanda Canales, of Mexico City, assisted by David Turturo, critic in architecture; Luis Callejas and Charlotte Hansson, directors of LCLA office, based in Oslo and Medellín, assisted by Marta Caldeira lecturer; and Stella Betts, of LEVENBETTS, in New York. Each studio focused on different environments and social contexts while scrutinizing age-old questions pertinent to the architectural discipline’s understanding of civic space.

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