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(English / Spanish edition)
Jesus Vassallo is a
Spanish architect and essayist. A graduate of the Polytechnic University of
Madrid (2004) and of Harvard University (2007), he is currently an associate professor
at Rice University in Houston. His work interrogates the problem of realism in
architecture through professional practice and academic research. He is the
author of Seamless: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture
(Park Books, 2016) and Epics in the Everyday: Architecture, Photography and the
Problem of Realism (Park Books, 2019). Together with Sebastián López-Cardozo,
he edited Nueva Vivienda: New Housing Paradigms in Mexico (Park Books, 2022).
His articles have been published internationally in journals such as El
Croquis, AA Files, 2G, Log, Harvard Design Magazine, Domus, and Arquitectura
Viva. He lives and works in Houston, TX.
Jorge Alberto Muñoz graduated
in 2012 from Monterrey Institute of Technology, with further studies at the
University of Melbourne. He subsequently graduated with a master's degree in
Architecture, with honors, from Cornell University in New York, where he also
served as adjunct professor. From 2011 to 2016, he collaborated at Luis Aldrete's
architecture studio in Guadalajara. Since 2018, he has taught at Instituto
Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara, along
with directing JAM arquitectura, an architecture firm that focuses on highlighting
the allure of spaces through a rational quest for simplicity and an
appreciation for materials and craftsmanship. In 2021, he became the founding
director of ForA, a non-profit cultural center dedicated to the critical
analysis of architecture. He resides in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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