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11.15.09 Eduardo Hurtado poem on “La Caracola” — BLOG

Eduardo Hurtado wrote a beautiful series of poems for Marcela Sanchez. Number 15 is about La Caracola, we are deeply touched:

Caracola House Photo by Luis Gordoa

Vamos a fundar La Caracola:

fundarla de habitar,
de ingeniarle un afuera
desde adentro.
Molusco, vida acéfala
y sensible,
tardes de percibir
y de avanzar muy lento.

Hagamos una concha,
secretemos
una coraza fuerte,
áspera como un adiós
y perdurable,
pulida en su interior
para que nos cobije
sin recusar el viento,
la sal que nos asedia.

Casa que absorba
lluvia, polvo,
tiempo.

Casa dura que dure
y que se impregne,
que tenga luz y mar
para el que luego venga,
que se deje vivir
y nos trascienda.

IÑAKI ECHEVERRIA is an architect and landscape urbanist based in Mexico City. His eponymous firm, founded in 2008, has been awarded numerous high profile commissions, both public and private such as El Parque Ecologico Lago de Texcoco (35,000 acres). Once completed it will become the world’s largest urban park. It involves over 150 specialists from multiple fields all directed by Echeverria’s office. The Papalote Verde Children´s Museum in Monterrey, scheduled to open to the public in winter 2012, will become Mexico’s first Platinum Leed certificate. A museum devoted to sustainability and environmental education, it has already become a cultural landmark in Mexico’s industrial heart. Echeverria’s multidisciplinary approach provides unique and specific solutions to complex conditions ranging from grand scale environmental remediation, public reclamation projects and landscapeurbanism planning to design, architecture and art installations. In these investigations a bottom-up collaborative approach to design is always privileged. Is working with the largest luxury retailer in Mexico and designing technological centers nationwide for a national employer’s association (coparmex). The practice’s scope includes international competitions and proposals such as the Taichung Gateway Park, the Pfeffeberg Underground in Berlin or a public space strategy for Ciudad Juarez. The office also takes on private commissions like the Tres Vidas House in Acapulco, Amapas Appartments in Puerto Vallarta or Sonora offices in hip-neighborhood Condesa. Iñaki Echeverria holds a Masters degree from the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, a Professional degree from UNAM in Mexico and studies in Art History from UCBerkeley. He is a professor of design at Universidad Iberoamericana and director of the Berlin Summer Workshop at Aedes Network Campus Berlin. Echeverria is a visiting juror and lecturer in several universities in the United States such as Columbia, Sciarc, Upenn and Harvard. We are always seeking talented people, if interested please send CV, Portfolio and Letter of Intent to studio@inakiecheverria.com .

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