In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, join us for a lecture on “Nueva Vivienda: New Housing Paradigms in Mexico” with Jesús Vassallo-Fernandez, associate professor of architecture at Rice University.
Jesús Vassallo-Fernandez
Jesús Vassallo-Fernandez is an award-winning Spanish architect whose interests include affordable housing, adaptive reuse, public-interest design, and low-carbon construction. His projects have been published and exhibited internationally, including in the Venice and Chicago Biennials. He is the author of several books including “Nueva Vivienda: New Housing Paradigms in Mexico,” “Epics in the Everyday” and “Seamless,” and he recently opened his own design practice in Houston.
About the book
“Nueva Vivienda: New Housing Paradigms in Mexico” features twenty-two exceptional housing projects in Mexico from the last ten years through images, floor plans and sections, with accompanying scholarly essays offering historical and theoretical background. Featuring a series of conversations among architects, developers and researchers, the book illuminates the local context for these projects, highlighting their designers’ new ideas and their contribution to reimagining housing typologies. Moreover, it anticipates the impact of these ideas beyond Mexico.
Sponsored by Rice University Multicultural Community Relations in the Office of Public Affairs