05 Jun ERIK CARRANZA – ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES 🗓 🗺
The cells that no longer explode: in search of an absent bust (that of JFK) and its relationship with GoSk8Day (June 21) in the Jardín Balbuena neighborhood
Erik Carranza
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The cells that no longer explode: in search of an absent bust (that of JFK) and its relationship with GoSk8Day (June 21) in the Jardín Balbuena neighborhood
Conversation with Erik Carranza
- Saturday, June 21st, 2025
- 13:00h
- At Arte Abierto | 2nd floor ARTZ
- Free admission
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No registration required.
In this Derive, we will explore the Nonoalco Tlatelolco Urban Complex, from Mario Pani’s architectural project—”The Man of Hundreds of Millions” according to Diego Rivera—to the John F. Kennedy Housing Unit in the Jardín Balbuena neighborhood, including its sports complexes (recognizing the pentapichichi-Hugo Sánchez Márquez design), designed by architects Félix Sánchez, Raúl Izquierdo, A. Sánchez Tagle, Juan Becerra, and Manuel Bernal, under the direction of the National Urban Mortgage and Public Works Bank (BNHUOP).
In addition, we will address the musical and sporting appropriation carried out by the communities that led to this neighborhood being recognized as the starting point for skateboarding in Mexico City, a pretext for celebrating Go Skateboarding Day on June 21st.
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Erik Alfonso Carranza López (Mexico City)
He is an architect with a master’s degree from Mexico City. He is interested in architecture as a spatial practice added to the city and its intersection with other disciplines that develop in the same urban space, such as skateboarding, play, sports, informality, and food. Since 2007, he has directed Anónima_arquitectura, a digital design and research platform. He teaches undergraduate and graduate programs at the Faculty of Architecture of La Salle University and at CENTRO. He was recently appointed head of the Architecture program at La Salle University. He has been a member of the National System of Art Creators (SNCA) and a fellow of the FONCA/CONACULTA Young Creators Program with the gastroarQuitectura project.
Winner of The Architectural League Prize 2024: Dirty and the Architecture Residency at Art Omi in Ghent, NY.
Author of La frontera desbordada, el circuito interior como generador de desconexiones de la dinámica de la Ciudad de México (The Overflowing Border: The Inner Circuit as a Generator of Disconnections from Mexico City’s Dynamics). He published Arquitectura del Underground as part of the collection of Open Aesthetics and Systems: Processes of Non-equilibrium between Art, Science, and the City or the Contemporary Aesthetics Collection of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. He writes for Arquine magazine in the Architecture, Design, and City sections from Mexico City.
He participated in Mexico’s episode of the first season of Skate le monde, for the TV5unis Canada channel, and in SEDATU’s Urban Improvement Program, in San Andrés Cholula, Puebla.
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Arte Abierto continues with its new public program Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura (Art & Architecture Derives), which seeks to renew our gaze on the architectural legacy of Mexico City. From a series of talks focused on rescuing the parallel stories of emblematic architectural projects and public spaces that have witnessed the variable intersection between art and architecture. In this first stage, the program deals mainly with modern architecture, based on a series of talks given by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners.
With this program, ways of returning to architecture part of its public, experiential, collective character and close to those of us who inhabit the city are tested, recognizing in it its condition as a living archive. From these talks, circumstances, contexts and anecdotes are revealed that have been part of his sensitive memory and that complement his material memory, a relationship that often escapes documentary narratives and academic accounts.
The objective of the Derives is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which allow us to renew our gaze on the legacy of certain emblematic architectural and artistic works, as well as those that have been forgotten.
The derives will be carried out free of charge on the last Saturday of each month, at 1:00 p.m. with a limited capacity.
Arte Abierto Derives :
February 26: Tania Ragasol / Entorno urbano, cotidianidad y arte: La Torre de los Vientos by Gonzalo Fonseca
March 26 : David Miranda / Del Animal Herido y otros eventos escultóricos dentro de la arquitectura moderna
April 23: Gustavo Lipkau y Xavier Hierro / Integración plástica de los edificios del campus central de CU: sus murales
May 28: Marisol Argüelles / La casa-estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo. Del espacio doméstico a la dimensión de lo público
June 25: Luis Javier de la Torre/ La Ruta de la Amistad MÉXICO68… más allá de 1968
July 30: Aldo Solano/ Architecture for playing in 20th Century Mexico City.
August 27: Christian del Castillo/ Tracing the modern in the architecture of the Historic Center of Mexico City.
September 24: Juan José Kochen/ The Ideal of the Multifamily Apartment cComplex.
October 29: Tania Candiani/ Quantum Prelude. Sound activation by Tania Candiani.
March 25: Ana Garduño/ Cultural Geographies: The invention of museum circuits in 20th century Mexico City.
May 27: Rebeca Barquera/ The Plastic Integration Movement México: More than murals on buildings.
June 17: Julián Arroyo Cetto/ Max Cetto in the beginning of El Pedregal.
July 29: Peter Kriegel/ The eco-aesthetics of El Pedregal and constructive botany in the megacity of Mexico.
August 26: Arturo Rivera García y Roberto Bustamante Castrejón/ Jardines del Pedregal Legacy: Memory and Identity.
September 30: Tonatiuh Martínez/ The garden as an extension of nature.
October 21: Lorena Botello/ Clara Porset’s Design: Between Tradition and Modernity.
March 23: Alejandro Ochoa Vega y Francisco Haroldo Alfaro Salazar/ Cinemas in Mexico in the 20th Century: Distant Spaces in Memory.
April 20: Rodrigo Torres Ramos / Pictorial Functionalism: The proposal for plastic integration of Mario Pani and Carlos Mérida.
June 22: María Bustamante Harfush / Public work and collective housing by Abraham Zabludovsky.
July 27: Veka Duncan / El Art Déco en México. La nacionalización de la modernidad.
August 31: Balam Bartolomé / Visiones del Altépetl caído: Un relato de Tlatelolco desde el arte.
October 19: José Ignacio Lanzagorta / The sixties and the christening of the Zona Rosa.
November 23: Eder Castillo & Arturo Ortiz Struck / GuggenSITO beyond the unfolding cube. Public art and interactivity.
March 29: Ximena Apisdorf / Architecture and museum: The transformation of the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo
April 26: Lorena Botello / A Museum Designed for a Modern Art Collection
May 31: Carlos Rodríguez / Nonoalco in the Cinema, Shadow of Modernity
June 21: Erik Carranza / The cells that no longer explode: in search of an absent bust (that of JFK) and its relationship with GoSk8Day (June 21) in the Jardín Balbuena neighborhood
