Francisco Pardo: Imperfections

By Francisco Pardo and Luca Molinari

Since 2015, Mexican architect Francisco Pardo has run his own practice in fast-growing and fast-changing Mexico City. His projects have reflected how Mexico is transforming the idea of the Latin American city: part ancient, part colonial, part futuristic. His Havre 69 project, created with his partner from architecture firm at103, Julio Amezcua, repurposes a 100-year-old residence for upper-middle-class families into offices, 12 separate residences, a bakery and a restaurant. On the one hand, Pardo exposes large sections of brick and maintains the original tile, while on the other, he builds modernist concrete and glass boxes that frame the original fa�ade. Likewise, the architect's Milan44 project takes an autoparts store in a warehouse in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City and creates a vertical urban market that brings the storefront street level onto each level of the structure. The architecture of Francisco Pardo reflects a fresh direction in the vast project of building Latin America into the future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6079489473
• ISBN13: 9786079489472
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Arquine
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"