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A radical retrospective that dissects 25 years of architectural production through 58 built projects and 30 provocative texts of BROISSIN Architects. This book resists convention-it questions, dismantles, and reveals the friction behind the polished surface of success. An architecture that emerges from silence, irony, and a fierce commitment to consciousness. xxThis is not just an architecture book. It's a rift. An uncomfortable whisper between the walls of 25 years of practice. Here, 58 built projects are presented, arranged with the logic of time. But between every line and every drawing, something else slips through: a suspicion. A resistance. An unresolved question. Thirty texts-written without permission and unafraid of disappointment-accompany this journey. They do not explain, nor justify. They interrogate. They dismantle comfortable narratives. They expose award-winning fictions. They mock ego and complacency. They celebrate doubt as a design method. This book is a construction log, but also a testimony of unrest. A cartography of what we have done and, more importantly, what we are no longer willing to do. Between drawings and words, the reader will find architecture. But they will also find silence, rage, irony, beauty... and commitment. Because here, architecture is built twice: once in matter, and once in consciousness... though the latter rarely pays, rarely gets published, and almost never wins awards.

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BROISSIN Architects is a firm of professional experts that work with clients and specialists to devise and implement innovative solutions for the developed projects. With 20 years of experience in the realm and having designed more than 400,000 sqm, we work all over the Mexican Republic with three offices strategically located in Mexico City, San Luis Potosí and Tijuana. Our clients are very diverse: large and small, private and public, profit and nonprofit. We help them grow, sustain and transform: whatever is necessary to embrace their future. The result: projects that generate confidence, inspire security and forge long-lasting relationships. M.Arch, José Luis Alvarez Tinajero is an Architect, Educator specialist, Ambassador, Co-Editor and Correspondent of ACTAR Publishers in Mexico, Architecture Curator of ´La Ciudad de las Ideas Festival´. (International Festival of Brilliant Minds), Architecture Curator of ]The Construction Summit - Expo CIHAC], Author of ]GILARDI House - Barragan´s Last Witness], Founder and Director of NODE. In his capacity as Director of NODE over the past 15 years, he has conceptualized, produced and curated two of the most important events on contemporary architecture in Mexico City; The Progressive Architecture Symposium and the National Kalmanani Prize lecture series (in collaboration with the most important Schools of Architecture). These are the largest and most significant architecture events in the country. He has had the privilege to present six Pritzker Prize awardees including Toyo Ito, Shigeru Ban, Alvaro Siza, SANAA, ZHA and Thom Mayne.

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