Wonne Ickx – Actar Publishers

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Born in Belgium, 1974

Studies:
Civil Engineer – Architect, University of Ghent, Ghent, 1993 – 1998
MA in Urbanism and Development, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1998 – 2001

Teaching:
Professor of urbanism at the Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam, 2002 – 2005
Universidad La Salle, Mexico City, 2006
Centro de Diseño, Mexico City, 2006 – 2009
Universidad Ibero-americana, Mexico City, 2009 – 2011
Workshop at Texas A&M, USA, 2011
Lecturer at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, 2012-2015
College of Architecture of Illinois Institute of Technology – IIT, Chicago, IL, USA, Fall Semester, 2016
Spring Semester 2017 – GSD, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 2017
College of Architecture of Illinois Institute of Technology – IIT, Chicago, IL, USA, Fall Semester, 2018
Other:
Member of the editorial board of Arquine magazine, Mexico City since 2010.

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Being the Mountain

Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, Abel Perles / PRODUCTORABeing the Mountain examines the relationship between architecture and the ground it occupies, an interaction so obvious—a building must touch the ground—that it often remains underexplored.

Productora Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, Abel Perles / PRODUCTORA The result of research PRODUCTORA initiated as winners of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Practice at Illinois Institute of Technology, Being the Mountain examines the relationship between architecture and the ground it occupies, an interaction so obvious -a building must touch the ground- that it often remains underexplored. Richly illustrated contributions by Carlos Bedoya, Frank Escher, Wonne Ickx, Véronique Patteeuw, and Jesús Vassallo revisit significant moments in architectural history that cast new light on the techniques and legacies of modernism, especially in settings like Mexico and California, where architects such as Ricardo Legorreta and John Lautner incorporated dramatic natural topography in their agendas. Additional essays investigate the role of the ground in the thought of Kenneth Frampton in the 1980s and Luis Moreno Mansilla in the 1990s, as well as point to important parallels between premodern land practices, twentieth-century

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