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Javier Sánchez is a Mexican developer and architect primarily known for contemporary construction in
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 o ...
, 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 the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM), and received his master's degree in Real Estate Development from
Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
in
New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
. 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.


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 Se ...
, 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 Sorjuana


China

*"Greenhouse" residences, Inner Mongolia


Peru

* El 22 Beach Housing, (2006) outside
Lima Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...
- Winner of the Silver Medal of the XI Biennale of Mexican Architecture. In addition, Sánchez has designed projects in
Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...
,
Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...
,
Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
, in
Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
, 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 The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is a public research university in San Antonio, Texas. With over 34,000 students across its four campuses spanning 758 acres, UTSA is the largest university in San Antonio and the eighth-largest by ...
, Visiting Professor of Architectural Design in the Graduate Architecture Program for the 2013 spring semester * Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) *
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and coeducational private university based in ...
(ITESM) *
University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...
*
Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public instit ...
, 2014-2015 Regnier Visiting Chair


Society memberships

*Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects


References

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