CASA WABI FOUNDATION: TADAO ANDO, ÁLVARO SIZA, AND KENGO KUMA IN MEXICO

Authors

  • Thaís Piffano Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Fabiola do Valle Zonno Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Keywords:

Casa Wabi Foundation, Regionalism, Cultural hybridism

Abstract

This paper presents an approach about the consideration of local in contemporary architectural practice, drawing on the encounter of Tadao Ando, Álvaro Siza and Kengo Kuma around the projects for the main building and two pavilions of the Casa Wabi Foundation, located in Oaxaca, Mexico. The Foundation was created in 2014 by Mexican artist Bosco Sodi with the aim of promoting the integration of artists and local communities through social programs of stimulus to the arts. Considering the theme of valorizing diversity and local cultures in Latin America, as well as the impacts of the dynamics of globalization on contemporary architectural production, the aim of this paper is to analyze the projects resulting from the relationship of Oaxaca region’s specificities with the individual languages of these foreign architects. This study is permeated with debates on the regional by Kenneth Frampton in the 1980s and Marina Waisman in the 1990s, and the recognition of theoretical-critical debates on processes of cultural exchanges and hybridization in contemporary practice, by authors like Néstor García Canclini.

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Author Biographies

Thaís Piffano, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 She is an architect and urban planner who has a master's degree and is a doctoral candidate in Architecture. She develops her research in the field of Theory and Teaching of Architecture, at the Postgraduate Program in Architecture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is a member of the research group Between Art, Architecture, and Landscape: Theory and Critique of Contemporary Complexity.

Fabiola do Valle Zonno, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

She is an Architect and Urban Planner, Master and Doctor in Social History of Culture. She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Department of History and Theory, as well as at the Graduate Program in Architecture. She coordinates the research group "Between Art, Architecture and Landscape-Theory and Critique of Contemporary Complexity".

 

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Published

2021-07-17

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 22 (2021): V!22 Latin America: You are Here!

Section

Ágora