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Javier Sánchez is a Mexican developer and architect primarily known for contemporary construction in
/ref> Sánchez is the founding partner and lead designer of the Mexico City firm JSª, known as Higuera + Sanchez from 1996-2007."Architect and CoA Visiting Professor Javier Sánchez discusses his work in Mexico City", University of Texas at San Antonio College of Architecture
/ref> ''Obras'' magazine voted Sánchez one of the forty most influential architects of the past forty years.
*The new wing of the Spanish Cultural Center(2011)"Javier Sánchez, Currículum", JSa website, retrieved 2013-07-22
/ref> *13 de Septiembre Adaptive Reuse Housing (2005) - featured in the 2005 New York show ''Mexico City Dialogues: New Architectural Practices,'' at the Center for Architecture *Hotel Condesa DF (2004) *
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of ...
, especially the Condesa
Condesa or La Condesa is an area in the Cuauhtémoc Borough of Mexico City, south of Zona Rosa and 4 to 5 km west of the Zócalo, the city's main square. It is immediately west of Colonia Roma, together with which it is designated as ...
neighborhood."LOS 40 ARQUITECTOS MÁS INFLUYENTES DE LOS ÚLTIMOS 40 AÑOS", ''Obras''/ref> Sánchez is the founding partner and lead designer of the Mexico City firm JSª, known as Higuera + Sanchez from 1996-2007."Architect and CoA Visiting Professor Javier Sánchez discusses his work in Mexico City", University of Texas at San Antonio College of Architecture
/ref> ''Obras'' magazine voted Sánchez one of the forty most influential architects of the past forty years.
Biography
Sánchez graduated with honors from theUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de México
The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...
(UNAM), and received his master's degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University
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in New York City
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.
Sánchez was at the vanguard of market urbanism in Mexico City. His firm, Higuera + Sánchez, bought a dilapidated warehouse in Condesa and created the city's first studio lofts, including communal space in the heart of the building. Such projects have been described as guerrilla architecture Guerrilla architecture is the hacking of existing buildings, often old, disused or distressed, adapted to a new function. Guerrilla architecture is both a social and political movement. It challenges the established architectural hierarchy by crea ...
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Projects (partial list)
Mexico City
*The new wing of the Spanish Cultural Center(2011)"Javier Sánchez, Currículum", JSa website, retrieved 2013-07-22/ref> *13 de Septiembre Adaptive Reuse Housing (2005) - featured in the 2005 New York show ''Mexico City Dialogues: New Architectural Practices,'' at the Center for Architecture *Hotel Condesa DF (2004) *
Parque España
Parque España is a park in the Colonia Hipódromo (neighborhood) of the Condesa district, in the Cuauhtémoc borough, in west-central Mexico City.
It is located between Nuevo León, Sonora and Parque España streets. It was inaugurated on Sep ...
, public spaces
* Torre Ámsterdam, a 19-storey tower at Avenida Insurgentes
Avenida de los Insurgentes ( en, Avenue of the Insurgents), sometimes known simply as Insurgentes, is the longest avenue in Mexico City, with a length of on a north-south axis across the city. Insurgentes has its origins in what was during the ...
301-303, not to be confused with the Torre Ámsterdam in Santa Fe, Mexico City
Santa Fe is one of Mexico City's major business districts, located in the west part of the city in the ''alcaldías'' (boroughs) of Cuajimalpa and Álvaro Obregón. The Paseo de la Reforma avenue and Constituyentes avenue are the primary mean ...
Additional works
''Most are apartment/condominium complexes unless otherwise noted.''
Condesa
Condesa or La Condesa is an area in the Cuauhtémoc Borough of Mexico City, south of Zona Rosa and 4 to 5 km west of the Zócalo, the city's main square. It is immediately west of Colonia Roma, together with which it is designated as ...
*Ámsterdam 127, 235, 315, 309, 322, Centro Qi gymnasium
*Chilpancingo 17
*Nuevo León 113
*Parque México 39
*Tacámbaro 36
*Teotihuacán 15
*Veracruz 60 and complex at 79-81-83-85-91
Roma
Roma or ROMA may refer to:
Places Australia
* Roma, Queensland, a town
** Roma Airport
** Roma Courthouse
** Electoral district of Roma, defunct
** Town of Roma, defunct town, now part of the Maranoa Regional Council
* Roma Street, Brisbane, a ...
*Chihuahua 78
*Mérida 49
*Río de Janeiro 64
*Zacatecas 90
Other areas
*Departamento Campos Elíseos *Departamento Portofino *Lamartine 336 *Monte Casino *Museo del Estanquillo *Oficinas Apollo *Oficinas Bowker *Oficinas Rivera Gaxiola y Asociados *Parques Polanco apartments *Progreso 218 *República de Cuba 41-43 *Residencial Spartta *Sierra Mojada 355 *Temístocles 12 *Tres Picos *Universidad Claustro de SorjuanaChina
*"Greenhouse" residences, Inner MongoliaPeru
* El 22 Beach Housing, (2006) outsideLima
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- Winner of the Silver Medal of the XI Biennale of Mexican Architecture.
In addition, Sánchez has designed projects in Costa Rica, Panama
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, Colombia, in Munich
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, Germany, and pavilions at the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
.
Academic commissions
*University of Texas at San Antonio
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, Visiting Professor of Architectural Design in the Graduate Architecture Program for the 2013 spring semester
*Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México
The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...
(UNAM)
*Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
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(ITESM)
*University of Washington
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Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seat ...
*Kansas State University
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, 2014-2015 Regnier Visiting Chair
Society memberships
*Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of ArchitectsReferences
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