@itesm Dr. Klaske Havik is leading the chair of Methods & Analysis at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Her book ‘Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture’, which developed a literary approach to architecture and urban space was translated in Spanish as ‘Leer y escribir la arquitectura. Un viaje a través de la ciudad’ (Bogotá, 2016).
@cuci We took the day to visit the Library + Media Center in the City of Ocotlán. It is a one hour drive from Guadalajara, and this is LEAP´s first built project. We started working on this project 20 years ago, the construction process took seven years and now the library has been open for …
@leap Mr. Norberto Alvarez gave us a presentation of the Biosphere2 project, that amazing experiment done in the 90´s that attempted to create an autonomous structure, a simulation of a martian station, capable of producing its own oxygen, its own food and able to recycle all residues into a living ecosystem. Mr. Alvarez was Mission …
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Training session @leap After some weeks of hard working preparing the information that was sent to Venice for the catalogue, we programmed a training session at LEAP. We invited a former collaborator, a young architect with an outstanding ability to 3D model using Sketch-Up, to give our participants some insights on the use of specific …
Interview session @leap During the week we have been working on the last minute details of the material that will be printed on the exhibition catalogue. Since the deadline for submitting material is quite early on our own calendar and process, we refined the material produced during the first month of work, which is mostly …
Interview session @leap One month into the AADP Program we interviewed our participants to know their opinions about the program, the videos will be part of the on-going documentation process and feedback.
@leap Today we invited our participants to visit the construction site of the apartment building WIT, a project we did two years ago, and that now is in its final stage of construction. We had the opportunity to show first hand concepts we talked earlier at the studio, we talked about architecture and most important, …
Work session @leap Terra is back at LEAP. After the first session on GIS mapping and working for a couple of weeks with the software and with the data, Enrique Salazar is back to answer questions and give us a hand with the processing of data and maps.
Meeting with IMPLAN´s Director @MTQ headquarters. January 13th. Meeting with IMPLAN´s Director, Mr. Norberto Alvarez. We received the visit of an officer from the local government of Mazatlan, he directs a government agency in charge of city planning. The agency has been involved in the project since last year, our proposal for the small village …
GIS mapping @leap. With Terra Consultores As part of the workshop we invited Enrique Salazar, founder and director of Terra Consultores, to give us a presentation of the available tools for GIS mapping. Although we do not intend to transfer all the know how of GIS mapping to our adpprentices, they got the opportunity to …
