Comunal Taller de Arquitectura: ‘we try to demonstrate that architecture is an exchange of knowledge’
- 6 December 2019
- London EMAP Publishing Limited 2019
Our practice was founded in 2015 in Mexico City by Mariana Ordóñez Grajales, a graduate of the Autonomous University of Yucatán. In 2017 Jesica Amescua Carrera, a graduate of the Universidad Iberoamericana, joined the team.
We work together with rural communities and indigenous populations in Mexico. For our practice, architecture is not an object, it is rather a participatory social process, alive and open, that allows members of the community to express their ideas, needs and aspirations, always placing them at the centre of projects and decision making.
Our mission is to collaborate in the improvement of living conditions and livability of rural communities in our country through participatory processes that trigger the valuation and rescue of autonomy, the exchange of knowledge, resilience and empowerment, always putting people at the center of the processes.