To make a blank space is to open the floodgates to reflection. An object overburdened with lines and forms is an invitation to read and process them, to become lost in them. A space with few elements invites you to read within, to think. The greatest challenge, not only for an architect but for anyone else as well, is to live on a par with his intentions; that is to say, by matching his work to his way of thinking. It seems to me that this is where ethics can produce a certain aesthetic, although it has nothing to do with moral judgment.

The studio is a place for work, for silence, designed for the creation of new spaces and ideas.

Our senses receive far too much information. The modern city resembles a visual and auditory battlefield. To arrive at your own space implies setting at ease not only your body, but also your mind. I intend for my work to help mediate between the information that mankind receives on a daily basis and that which we carry around in our minds. I believe the city has reached a point in which it loses us. That is why I facilitate encounters with ourselves.

Nicola LorussoPhotography

MAA Text

Studio

mexico city, mexico

2003

Escalera metálica en un espacio blanco
Interior de un pasillo con paredes naranjas y suelo claro, con una figura borrosa de una persona caminando al fondo.
Plano de planta de un edificio con varias habitaciones y áreas de lavado y descarga, con escaleras y un patio exterior.
Plano arquitectónico de una casa residencial, mostrando varias habitaciones, escaleras y baños.
Una mujer con cabello corto y oscuro, vestida con un suéter gris, está detrás de un mostrador en un entorno interior de diseño minimalista y luminoso, con paredes en tonos claros y una iluminación suave.

Today, Mexico City is governed by chaos and a lack of structure. I concur with Teodoro González de León when he states that contemporary city architecture resists order. Today, it is up to architects to build isolated works with their own identities. That is the modern city we are meant to live in.

We live in an era of grandiloquence, over-saturation, grandiose productions, vast and sumptuous works representing multiple human manifestations. That is why today more than ever, I aspire to simplicity, to the economization of elements, to purification.

With music, for example, no more elements are needed than a player who makes the crucial notes audible, the exact dosage of sounds, and someone ready to receive them; a piano, a cello, the sounds required to create intimacy with anyone willing to listen.

Vista de una habitación vacía con paredes blancas y suelo de color claro, vista desde una esquina hacia otra parte de la habitación.

"Music invents silence, architecture invents space," reads a verse by Octavio Paz. When I read it, it seemed to me a very accurate and precise synthesis, and I stopped to think about how music and architecture build an atmosphere in a similar fashion, through rhythms and contrasts; how they share ways of recreating sentiments, of caressing or violating them.

In architecture, a dark place ennobles light, a tiny space lends meaning to width, a color seeks its complement, and an area recreates a beautiful dialogue.

Un espacio cerrado con paredes y techo de color crema, con formas curvas en el techo y una esquina en la parte inferior derecha.
Cama con estructura blanca, colchón y almohada en habitación con paredes blancas y suelo de mármol.

To make a blank, white space is to open the doors to thought and reflection. An object laden with lines and forms is an invitation to read and to process them. A space with few elements invites us to read deeper, to think. The greatest challenge — not only for an architect but also for any of us — is to live on par with our intentions, above all bringing our work into harmony with our way of thinking. I believe that's the moment when ethics produces aesthetics. This studio is designed for the diffusion of space and ideas.

Interior moderno con escaleras de piedra, una bola decorativa en escalón y un mural de fotografías en la pared de fondo.
Oficina moderna con techos altos, paredes blancas y ventanas grandes, con varias personas trabajando en escritorios con computadoras.
Sala de estar con muebles blancos, lámparas de luz cálida y paredes decoradas con arte minimalista en blanco.

PRoject DEtails

  • Miguel Angel Aragonés

  • Georgina Amador, Juan C. Leon, Juan Carlos Calanchini, Gabriel Villalobos

  • Nicola Lorusso

  • Xawery Wolski

  • Mexico city, Mexico

  • 1,102 M2