Javier Sánchez (architect)

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Javier Sánchez is a Mexican architect and developer primarily known for contemporary construction in Mexico City, especially the Condesa neighborhood.^[1] Sánchez is the founding partner and lead designer of the Mexico City firm JSª, known as Higuera + Sanchez from 1996-2007.^[2] Obras magazine voted Sánchez one of the forty most influential architects of the past forty years.^[1]

Biography

Sánchez graduated with honors from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM), and received his Master’s degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in New York City.

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.^[3]

Projects (partial list)

Mexico City

Centro Cultural de España, new wing (2012), Donceles street entrance

The new wing of the Spanish Cultural Center(2011)^[2]^[4]^[5]
13 de Septiembre Adaptive Reuse Housing (2005)^[2] - featured in the 2005 New York show Mexico City Dialogues: New Architectural Practices, at the Center for Architecture^[5]^[6]
Hotel Condesa DF (2004)^[2]^[5]
Parque España, public spaces^[5]^[7]
Torre Ámsterdam, a 19-storey tower at Avenida Insurgentes 301-303,^[8] not to be confused with the Torre Ámsterdam in Santa Fe, Mexico City

Additional works; most are apartment/condominium complexes unless otherwise noted:^[5]

Condesa

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

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 Sorjuana

China

"Greenhouse" residences, Inner Mongolia^[9]

Peru

El 22 Beach Housing, (2006) outside Lima - WInner of the Silver Medal of the XI Biennale of Mexican Architecture.^[2]^[10]

In addition, Sánchez has designed projects in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, in Munich, Germany, and pavilions at the Venice Biennale.^[11]

Academic commissions

University of Texas at San Antonio, Visiting Professor of Architectural Design in the Graduate Architecture Program for the 2013 spring semester^[2]
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM)^[2]
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)^[2]
University of Washington^[2]
Kansas State University, 2014-2015 Regnier Visiting Chair ^[2]

Society memberships

Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects^[2]

References

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