Pensamientos Genericos
Ideas and speculations from the borderlands
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Reopening Generica I started this blog in 2003 as a way to think through Tijuana and the border. At the time, it was less about producing arguments and more about registering conditions. The city, its informal logics, its political economy, and its constant negotiation with constraint made architecture impossible to treat as a closed discipline.…
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After reading Patrik Schumacher’s latest piece on Dezeen, where he claims that architecture is being “killed” by woke culture, it is hard not to see his argument as reactionary, reductive, and, frankly, out of touch. His fixation on parametricism as the only viable path for architecture has always been rigid. Still, he is doubling down,…
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Reflecting on the Legacy of Woodbury University School of Architecture in San Diego In the summer of 2006, I received a call from my friend and colleague Catherine Herbst, who had recently become the head of Woodbury University School of Architecture in San Diego (WUSD) following the departure of the previous chair, Geraldine Forbes, to…
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Thanks to Melisa Arreola for letting me make the music video for her song Azul. The video was rendered in Kaiber and put together in Adobe Preimere. Find her music on instagram: @cuartopaisaje
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July 11, 2023 Today, Tijuana brims with joy and nostalgia as we dive headfirst into the celebrations at the Tijuana Book Fair. Among the lively chatter and the rustle of pages, we took a moment to honor and remember an extraordinary writer – Rafa Saavedra. A small but lively crowd of friends came together, reminiscing…
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I am honored to participate as Juror in Archinects Ai Storytelling challenge. To mark the beginning of our series, we are also excited to launch our Generative Futures: An AI + Architecture Storytelling Challenge. This timely competition invites entrants to imagine the future of architecture and the built environment through artificial intelligence. Open to all and…
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I had the opportunity to participate in a panel at the Southern Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians’ 40th annual conference in Memphis, TN. Session 3B – Emerging Architectures and Urbanisms in Latin America (Rene Peralta, moderator) In this session, attendees will learn about historical and recent changes in the architectural and built environment…
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For father’s day, I received this great book and want to share my review of this important work. As Neil Leach writes, the development of this book has taken many years. If you are familiar with his career trajectory, you will agree that he always writes well-structured and well-researched books, as any critical scholar should.…
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Over the summer, I’ve been playing around with platforms that use AI to generate images from text prompts. First, I started with WomboAi, then graduated to Disco Diffusion, and finally got an invite to Midjourney. Each platform has a different process, but no coding skills are needed. You’ll need to know some basic digital image-making…
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American Planning Association 2022 National Planning Conference San Diego California, Saturday, April 30, 2022 Location: Ballroom Division Endorsement: Sustainable Communities Division, International Division This enduring vision for the San Diego/Tijuana region by Donald Appleyard and Kevin Lynch (1974) inspired almost 50 years of planning innovation and set the stage for a 2-part session. Prominent planners…
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