Overview
Mexico's architecture is characterized by open spaces, garden living, and vibrant colors that match the nation's tropical scenery. Brightly colored building facades line street after street in small country towns, as if every homeowner tried to outdo his neighbor. Contemporary Mexican Design presents homes designed by thirteen prominent architects in Mexico today. It represents a spectrum of responses to both Euroamerican Modernism and native Mexican interest in bright colors.About the Author: Khristaan Villela is director of the Thaw Art History Center and assistant professor of art history at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. He received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in the history of art. He specializes in the art and architecture of Precolumbian Mexico, and has lectured and published widely on ancient Maya art and writing and on Colonial Mexican art.
About the Author: Ellen Bradbury has worked in the southwestern United States and Mexico. She has a master's degree from the University of New Mexico and worked at the Beinecke Library at Yale University on the papers of Mabel Dodge Luhan. She has been the curator of primitive art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, and is currently the director of Recursos de Santa Fe.
About the Author: Logan Wagner is an architect and builder with extensive knowledge of both traditional and contemporary Mexican architecture. He was raised and educated in Mexico, where he studied anthropology and architecture before coming to the United States to obtain a doctorate in architectural history from the University of Texas at Austin. Wagner specializes in traditional building practices and materials.