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Respuesta al lugar en la obra de Francisco Artigas en EL Pedregal 1950 – 1962
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2025-07-21) Quituisaca Leon, Byron Fernando; Sinchi Toral, Iván Paúl
This research shows the fundamental decisions of the work of Francisco Artigas within El Pedregal, the most important urbanization of modern Latin American architecture in Mexico, analyzed from the consideration of place understood as a problem of form. Additionally, the work in El Pedregal will be approached as a single project, where each house is part of a larger global system that is formed and organized according to an architectural criterion based on the arrangement of elements in space. The characteristics of the collected information, consisting of articles, plans, and period photographs, focus on visions of the project condensed for publications, which forces the analysis to adjust to an alternative view of the conception process. Thus, each house is visualized as a sketch or plan within this global conception process, which includes a total of 16 houses distinguished by their architectural quality. This reveals constant aspects such as the placement on the most characteristic site, visual relationships, the horizontal, the access route, the jagged façade, and the perception of the building. Likewise, emphasis is placed on a graphic analysis, as by observing the photographs of the houses, three points of view that prevail in the different projects are revealed. In fact, Artigas proposes two fundamental criteria in response to the Pedregal environment: one horizontal that allows locating oneself on the rock, and verticals that allow inhabiting it.