Architects Ignacio del Rio and Emmanuel Ramirez Present Lecture on Oct. 13

Photo Submitted

CAP House, a design by MMX studio, is located in a residential neighborhood in Mexico City. (Photo by Yoshihiro Koitani)

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Architects Ignacio del Rio and Emmanuel Ramirez will present a lecture on their firm, MMX, at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 13 in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture lecture series.

Del Rio and Ramirez founded MMX studio with Jorge Arvizu and Diego Ricalde in 2009. Based in Mexico City, the studio is a collaborative team that focuses on the design process at the various scales of the territory. The practice is supported by experience in both nationally and internationally renowned architecture studios. Their collaborative design process directly informs their effort to promote a participatory built environment. Open to any scale of intervention, MMX develops ideas that range from design and installations to architecture and urbanism.

MMX studio has won various national and international awards for its work, including the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers in New York, the Design Vanguard award given by Architectural Record, The Cemex Award for best national and international housing project and the Latin-American Biennale presented in Pamplona, Spain. Their work has also been shown in museums and galleries such as “Storefront for Art and Architecture” in New York, MUDE Fashion Museum in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Museum of Modern Art, also in New York.

In their lecture, del Rio and Ramirez will seek to give an overview of Mexico as both a country and a culture from the perspective of designers. They acknowledge the fact that every architectural project intrinsically is immersed in a specific context, and that each context has a different set of cultural, social and economic principles. Even though architecture has become more and more generic across the different boundaries of the world, they believe that there is a common root that can be tracked locally. They’ll present their work and their view of the “why” and “how” the specific environment has shaped the way they develop their projects.

This is the Sustainability Lecture, sponsored by Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects.

Admission is free, with limited seating. For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or architecture.uark.edu.