This book is a special edition that includes a unique photograph signed by the artist.
“Arquitectura libre is a long-term project on the self-built environment. It focuses primarily on the architecture of remittances; the fantastical houses being built by financing from Mexican immigrants in the US who send money home. Arquitectura libre explores the idea of a home more as symbol than as function.
Approaching the theme of migration through its architecture opens up a somewhat unique perspective on a much-reported subject. It poses questions of not only displacement but of replacement, wherein these homes symbolically "replace” the migrant in the most visible of ways.
Arquitectura libre is a story of displacement, replacement, identity, culture, classism, racism, education, perseverance–and mistakes.
Arquitectura libre is a celebration of architecture that transcends convention and bears witness to dreams.“
Catalogue of the exhibition. Include text by Adam Wiseman, Annuska Angulo, Pablo Landa, Mario de la Cruz and Natalia Gálvez.
