VOYAGE 50505
I am turning L. August 2023 will be an exciting Birthday. For this I am preparing an art exhibition (ink+watercolors) encapsulating where I have lived or meaningful places where I spent time over the last 50 years of my existence. For this I selected 50 locations across 5 continents and thus the title Voyage 50505. I am a Mexican architect and an academic. I was born in the former capital of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan, today Mexico City some 50 years ago. By the age of 6 my parents decided to move out of the big metropolis into a house my father designed and built in his hometown, San Luis Potosi, a colonial mid-size city in the center of Mexico. My mother found the town too small and lacked the cosmopolitan life that Mexico city offered. By 1982 they were done with the provincial life and decided to return to the big smog, this time in Guadalajara, in the west of Mexico. "La perla de occidente" is a beautiful city founded on the 14 of February or 1542. I consider myself