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  • 7 / Sincere Fun, 2024
    • 7-1 / I / Call for Contributions
  • 6 / Learning Architecture, 2021
    • 6-1 / I / Call for Contributions
  • 5 / Invisible Structures, 2020
    • 5-1 / I / Prologue
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  • 4 / The Possible Progress, 2019
    • 4-1 / I / The Possible Progress
    • 4-2 / II / Answer Series
  • 3 / Building Identity, 2018
    • 3-1 / I / ASSIMILATION
    • 3-2 / II / APPROPRIATION
    • 3-3 / III / REJECTION
    • 3-4 / IV / CONCILIATION
    • 3-5 / V / THE CASE OF DWELLING
  • 2 / The limits of fiction in Architecture, 2017
    • 2-1 / I / THE TEXT ISSUE
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  • 1 / The Form of Form, 2016
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    USF \ DF Appropriation techniques

    Onnis Luque

    This Photoessay draws light on everyday tactics of appropriation elaborated by the inhabitants while living in – and living with – one of Mexico City‘s most outstanding modernist heritage sites: the 1957 Unidad Habitacional Santa Fé by Architect Mario Pani. Photographer Onnis Luque playfully presents the creative tensions between architecture and improvisation, space and time, […]

    This Photoessay draws light on everyday tactics of appropriation elaborated by the inhabitants while living in – and living with – one of Mexico City‘s most outstanding modernist heritage sites: the 1957 Unidad Habitacional Santa Fé by Architect Mario Pani.

    Photographer Onnis Luque playfully presents the creative tensions between architecture and improvisation, space and time, project and everyday life. He provides us with deep insight into the multiple functions, forms and facets of the lively transformation process this social housing estate is undertaking day by day.

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