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The Aestheticisation of Inequality: Contrasting Landscapes on the Periphery of Mexico City

Fascination and Repulsion for the Aesthetics of Abandonment

From fascination to repulsion, architectural defragmentation evokes a grotesque sense revealed to the subversion of norms, which is characterized by the indeter

8 Women-Led Practices in Architecture That Reflect on the Profession in Mexico

Architecture as a Reflection of Migration Between Mexico and the United States

“Abandonment Copies” is a research project created between 2016 and 2018 by artist Sandra Calvo consisting of a film, archives, drawings, interviews, and a video display which was exhibited in the Mexican pavilion during the 2021 Biennial of Venice. The project highlights architecture as a reflection of the migration process between Mexico and the United States, comparing and contrasting the houses where migrants work in the US and the ones they build in Mexico with the remittances they send. Dream House. Image © Sandra Calvo The project pays tribute to the constant struggle to build a place to call home as seen in the journey countless migrants take to the United States to live and work in precarious and illegal conditions while saving up to build their own mansion-inspired villas that border on fantastical. In spite of the progress made in recent years, informal migration to the US is still marred by both inequality and violence. To date, Mexicans continue to make up the la

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