GUILLERMO ARANDA-MENA

MY EARLY WORK: Proyecto Casa Cubo: Guadalajara, México (1992-93). Centro de meditación en Tapalpa, Jalisco, México (1993). Proyecto Hotel y Centro de Convenciónes. Guadalajara, Mexico (1994). Proyecto de Tesis: Restauración Templo San Miguel de Belén y conjunto urbano - with Juan Manuel Salgado Alcaraz (1994-95). Work at Seville University and UIA Barcelona 1996 will take place in another blogpost. The architectural pilgrimage: Europe from January 1996 to November 2003. Daniel Libeskind lecture on the extention of the V&A Museum. Other influential lectures at the Royal Academy of Arts and RIBA included Norman Foster, Kisho Kurokawa, Charles Jencks and visits to Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and DEGW studios. Some of the following shots include conference at the UIA Barcelona 1996 where I got to attend to presentations by Herzog and De Meuron, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Ricardo Legorreta. During that summ...

[de]CONSTRUCTING GAM is a brief and random visual reflection of things and objects which called my attention at some point my life. There is only a loose chronological order with no specific selection logic for the chosen images (nor is the object [ive] of this post) but rather a bunch of flashbacks. Perhaps some patterns emerge as orderly .... but that was pure chance! Deconstructing GAM includes disassembled toys, games or even images of parts of me and my past. No real particular reason but de-constricting GAM bit by bit. Mexico's puzzle is perhaps the only image that needs to be there - at the beginning - as it represents my initial coordinates on planet earth. Place were I was born and early years leading to my adolescence including México City (7 yrs), San Luis Potosí (3 yrs) and Guadalajara (12 yrs). I also spent summers or extended periods of time in the cities such as Cancún, Mazatlán, Tepic, Mexicali, Billings, Mt. and Vancouver, Ca. In January 1996 at the...