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keeping

In activities characterized by challenge, such as sports, experts know that much harder than achieving success is dealing with it afterwards.

Sep 30 • 

Jorge Mejía Hernández

August 2025

architecture tutors: 4 - hang and support

Buildings’ firmness is one of the few elemental questions we face.

Aug 25 • 

Jorge Mejía Hernández

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June 2025

circular

A recent social media post chronicles a professional study trip.

Jun 24 • 

Jorge Mejía Hernández

1

May 2025

architecture tutors: 3 - within structure

Our ability to inhabit the space within a building’s loadbearing structure is a genuine modernization of architecture - a real change.

May 30 • 

Jorge Mejía Hernández

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April 2025

polytechnical

Presuming that personal inclinations should be normative, which is to say that one’s own wishes or beliefs should rule over what others think and do…

Apr 30 • 

Jorge Mejía Hernández

March 2025

architecture tutors: 2 - shell and inner lining

How many times have we heard Leon Battista Alberti’s argument that a building should be understood as a small city while a city should be seen as a…

Mar 30 • 

Jorge Mejía Hernández

February 2025

architecture tutors: 1 - square plan

In a compendium of Japanese architecture published in the 1990s by Taschen, Arata Isozaki claimed that the square and the circle should be considered…

Feb 22 • 

Jorge Mejía Hernández

January 2025

building association

In the different texts included in his collected Writings on Architecture, Kentucky born architect Paul Rudolph insists on a few claims regarding…

Jan 29 • 

Jorge Mejía Hernández

December 2024

architecture tutors

In his provocative article ‘Read it and Pass it On,’ Josep Quetglas invites students of architecture to recognize that, beyond the classroom, they…

Dec 22, 2024 • 

Jorge Mejía Hernández

November 2024

breaking things into smaller parts

A typical curriculum in architectural education includes at least five fields of study.

Nov 30, 2024 • 

Jorge Mejía Hernández

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October 2024

some (great) reward

Here’s a true story, shared with me (by someone who was actually there) as a rather amusing yet self-evident fact: ‘As of this moment,’ said the…

Oct 28, 2024 • 

Jorge Mejía Hernández

August 2024

vinyl record architecture

0. Nothing comes from out of nowhere.

Aug 30, 2024 • 

Jorge Mejía Hernández