Otros Entregables:
Toward Other Architectures

Our installation is not a built object but a collective event, a temporary intervention that turns architecture schools into spaces of encounter, reflection, and dialogue. We begin with a simple but provocative question: If you could redesign what it means to be an architect today, what would you change? Through an open call directed at students and emerging professionals in Mexico, we gathered short text-based responses. These were compiled into a collective video piece and projected onto the façades and gathering places of various architecture schools across the city, transforming institutional walls into public surfaces for conversation.

This installation challenges the idea that architecture is grounded solely in its physical form. For us, architecture is also conversation, radical listening, and care. The project invites audiences to question the values that shape architectural education and practice today, while proposing collective ways to rewrite the existent architectural plot. The process has involved student collaborators from each school, who have taken part in curating and organizing the projection events. It is an opportunity to engage in an expanded architectural practice, one centered on critical reflection and the creation of other deliverables.

Through a series of site-specific interventions across Mexico City-area architecture schools, we engaged students and faculty in critical, collective encounters. Each event unfolded as a response to the local context—activating shared spaces, rethinking pedagogical structures, and foregrounding voices often left at the margins. These moments of disruption and dialogue revealed a common desire: to reimagine how architecture is taught, practiced, and shared. Rather than offering fixed answers, the processes opened up space for questioning, listening, and building alternative futures from within the institutions themselves.

Our first event took place at ITESM Campus Querétaro as part of the “How Space Can” series, where we led the workshop Towards Other Architectures with final-semester architecture students. The workshop became a collective space to imagine—and to insist on—alternative modes of architectural practice grounded in lived experience, everyday challenges, and situated needs. Together, we constructed a collective manifesto and an audiovisual archive of the students’ spatial-artistic interventions. This material will serve as a resource and point of departure for future generations of students at the institution. 

Our second gathering took place at Universidad Anáhuac Norte. Students synthesized responses to our open call and identified five key themes: social architecture, mental health, sustainability, experience, and alternative practice. These themes framed small group discussions alongside a projection of submitted phrases. To close, we created a collective mural on a temporary wall where each participant left a post-it with reflections—a visible trace of shared concerns and desires. Together, we envisioned other possible futures for architecture.

At Universidad Iberoamericana, we staged an unexpected intervention. Without prior notice, we activated shared spaces through a surprise projection of phrases from our open call, accompanied by music. Simultaneous projections lit up both the architecture workspace and a central patio where students naturally gather. The intervention drew a spontaneous crowd, sparking conversations around the projected words. What began as a disruption turned into a moment of reflection—on academic pressures, collective rhythms, and new ways of practicing architecture beyond the studio’s usual routines.

At Universidad La Salle, conversations with upper-level students revealed a shared need: to rebuild a sense of community—something lost during the pandemic years. Responding to this, we created an immersive 360-degree audiovisual projection that transformed a shared space into a collective experience. The installation sparked open dialogue about the role of community in architectural practice and education. What emerged was a powerful reminder that architecture is not only built space, but also shared time, presence, and the urgent need to imagine together.

Our final event took place at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), activating a transitional space within the university through projection of phrases from our open call onto a curved wall. As the projection unfolded, students and faculty gradually gathered, drawn in by the intervention. What began as a quiet activation became a lively exchange, culminating in a conversation between students and professors about how to reshape the academic curriculum. The event bridged everyday experience and institutional structure, pointing to the potential of collective dialogue to reimagine architectural education.

At Proyector, a curatorial platform based in Mexico City dedicated to promoting emerging voices in contemporary architectural research, we hosted a gathering of diverse architectural practices—winners of the Architectural League Prize and Emerging Voices in Mexico—for a conversation that bridged generations and modes of working. We projected the phrases collected from our university interventions, this time in a professional context, inviting dialogue between the concerns voiced by students and the reflections of established practices. Representatives from Anónima, Palma, Estudio MMX, TO, and the directors of Proyector participated in a rich exchange. The conversation revealed resonances across generations—particularly around authorship, ego, and the culture of overexertion embedded in architectural education and practice. Yet it also surfaced nuance, as participants reflected on the ways their own formation continues to shape, challenge, or evolve in relation to emerging voices. The event became a cross-generational dialogue about the persistent—and shifting—questions that shape how architecture is practiced today.

Credits

Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Querétaro 

Daniel Savedra Olivo
Cynthia Deng
Daniela Arias Laurino
Anabel Barreda González
Photo credits: Lily Ceballos + Antonio Juárez (Drone)

Universidad Anáhuac Norte

Gerardo Broissin Covarrubias
Jimena Hogrebe Rodríguez
Selene Ibarra Luna
Carla Quiterio Mendoza
Celeste Lambarria Ponce
Laura Quintero Cifuentes
Catalina Gallego de Lara
Alejandra Tlapanco Sánchez Lazos
Sofía González Claderón
Félix Reyes Quintero
Photo credits:  Lily Ceballos

Universidad Iberoamericana

Jimena de Gortari Ludlow
Jimena Villegas Zorrilla
María Sandoval Acosta
Photo credits: Courtesy of Universidad Iberoamericana

Universidad La Salle México

Erik Carranza López
Andrés Garibay Pulido
Andrea Olivar Benítez
Luis Escalante
Alejandra Carrillo Paz
Photo credits: Elías Ramses Salomon

UNAM

Emilio Canek Fernández
Mariana Morales Arrieta
Photo credits: Fernando Álvarez

Proyector

Tania Tovar Torres
Juan Espinosa Cuock
Photo credits: Laura Méndez + Fernando Álvarez

SPECIAL THANKS 

Escuela de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño (EAAD) del Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Querétaro
Facultad de Arquitectura Universidad Anáhuac México
Departamento de Arquitectura, Urbanismo e Ingeniería Civil Universidad Iberoamericana CDMX
Facultad Mexicana de Arquitectura, Diseño y Comunicación Universidad La Salle México
Facultad de Arquitectura Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Proyector