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Tatiana Bilbao, Ayesha S. Ghosh, Nile Greenberg (eds.)

Two Sides of the Border

Reimagining the Region

Under the direction of Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao, thirteen architecture studios and students across the United States and Mexico undertook the monumental task of attempting to capture the complex and dynamic region of the US/Mexican border. Two Sides of the Border envisions the borderland through five themes: migration, housing and cities, creative industries, local production, tourism, and territorial economies. Building on a long-shared history in the region, the projects covered in this volume use design and architecture to address social, political, and ecological concerns along the shared border.

Featuring essays, student projects, interviews, special research, and a large photo project by Iwan Baan, Two Sides of the Border highlights the distinct qualities of this place. Altogether the book uses the tools of architecture, research, and photography to articulate an alternate reality within a contested region.

Under the direction of Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao, thirteen architecture studios and students across the United States and Mexico undertook the monumental task of attempting to capture the complex and dynamic region of the US/Mexican border. Two Sides of the Border envisions the borderland through five themes: migration, housing and cities, creative industries, local production, tourism, and territorial economies. Building on a long-shared history in the region, the projects covered in this volume use design and architecture to address social, political, and ecological concerns along the shared border.

Featuring essays, student projects, interviews, special research, and a large photo project by Iwan Baan, Two Sides of the Border highlights the distinct qualities of this place. Altogether the book uses the tools of architecture, research, and photography to articulate an alternate reality within a contested region.

“The publication combines imagination, rigorous research and a bit of activism.”
– We make money not art

Edited by Tatiana Bilbao, Nile Greenberg, Ayesha S. Ghosh, in collaboration with Yale School of Architecture

With photographs by Iwan Baan

With essays by Miguel Fernández De Castro and Natalia Mendoza, Carla Fernandez and Pedro Reyes, Stephen Haff and Students, Carlos Hagerman, Andrei Harwell, Minjae Kim, Ersela Kripa, Sarah Lynn Lopez, Monica Lozano, Alejandro Morales Luperca, Stephen Mueller, Terremoto and Diego del Valle Ríos, Thomas Paturet, Carlos Zedillo

Design: Luke Bulman Office

16,5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in

488 pages, 350 illustrations

paperback

2020, 978-3-03778-608-6, English
Architectural Photography Spatial Development Latin America
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Tatiana Bilbao

Tatiana Bilbao is a leading voice in contemporary architecture. She founded Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO, a Mexico City based architecture studio, in 2004 with the aim of integrating social values, collaboration and sensitive design approaches to architectural work. Among the studio’s architectural projects are the Culiacán Botanical Garden, the Pilgrimage Route in Jalisco, an institutional building on the UDEM campus, a research center of the Sea of Cortez, and a social housing prototype displayed at the 2015 Chicago Biennial. Bilbao holds a recurring teaching position at Yale University School of Architecture and has taught at Harvard University GSD, AA Association in London, Columbia University GSAPP, Rice University, University of Andrés Bello in Chile, and Peter Behrens School of Arts at HS Dusseldorf in Germany. She was born and grew up in Mexico City.

Iwan Baan

Photo Iwan Baan

Iwan Baan (*1975) is a Dutch architecture and documentary photographer based in Amsterdam. His photography focuses on the life of architecture and how people reappropriate their built environment to make it their own. Baan has worked with leading architects and architecture studios such as Rem Koolhaas/OMA, Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA, Zaha Hadid and Steven Holl, and his images regularly appear in national and international newspapers and magazines. He has authored or collaborated on many books and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2012. Baan's work has been exhibited internationally, including a retrospective exhibition launched at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein in 2023/2024.

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