two buildings made of arches near body of water, rocks, bushes, palm trees and hills during daytime

UT School of Architecture Spring 2021 Lecture Series: Alberto Kalach

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Mon, Feb 22 2021, 12:30 - 1:30pm

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Cited as one of the most versatile and prolific architectural voices in Mexico City today, Alberto Kalach works collaboratively, completing projects from residential commissions to civic structures with firms and contemporaries such as Teodoro González de León, Juan Palomar, Tonatiuh Martinez, Gustavo Lipkau and José Castillo, among others. His award-winning José Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City remains the largest public library in Latin America. Kalach’s concern for the emerging problems of his vast native city has inspired projects at a range of scales, from his minimal $5,000 houses to housing developments and urban master plans. At TAX, Kalach and his team are devoted to transcending the unavoidable geographic, economic and temporal constraints ingrained in every project to turn them into opportunities to build solutions that respect and celebrate the environment and its cultural context.

This event is part of the Spring 2021 Lecture Series presented by the UT School of Architecture.