Javier Sánchez (architect)
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Javier Sánchez is a Mexican developer and architect primarily known for contemporary construction in
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, 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
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in
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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.


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, public spaces * Torre Ámsterdam, a 19-storey tower at
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301-303, not to be confused with the Torre Ámsterdam in
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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


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*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
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- Winner of the Silver Medal of the XI Biennale of Mexican Architecture. In addition, Sánchez has designed projects in
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, in
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, Germany, and pavilions at the
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.


Academic commissions

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University of Texas at San Antonio The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA or UT San Antonio) is a Public university, public research university in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Established in 1969,Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) *
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM; ), also known as Technological Institute of Monterrey () or just Tec, is aresearch university based in Monterrey, Mexico, which has grown to include 35 campuses located across 25 cit ...
(ITESM) *
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*
Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant coll ...
, 2014-2015 Regnier Visiting Chair


Society memberships

*Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects


References

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