Wortham Fellow Nathan Friedman and Francisco Quiñones Are Featured in the Interview "Retaining Walls"

Departamento del Distrito's Casa Georgina. Image credit: Adriana Hamui

Clockwise from top left: Real de Catorce in 1893; the town in 1910; the local San Agustín Mine in 1900. Images courtesy Fototeca Nacional INAH

Street facade of Casa Georgina at the outset of the project. Image credit: Departamento del Distrito

Casa Georgina site plan. The apartments designed by Departamento del Distrito sit within the red dotted line; the client's house is immediately above. Image credit: Departamento del Distrito

Existing site condition. Image credit: Departamento del Distrito

Jul 19, 2022

Wortham Fellow Nathan Friedman and Francisco Quiñones, co-founders of Departamento del Distrito and winners of the 2022 Architectural League Prize, are featured in the interview "Retaining Walls" by Rafi Lehmann, program manager at the Architectural League of New York.

The interview focuses on Departamento del Distrito's interest in historic preservation and their recent project to design short-term rental apartments in a nineteenth-century silver-mining town in northern Mexico.

Click here to read the interview.

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