Biblioteca de México, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Fonds: Ábalos&Herreros fonds, 1920-2009
•    Series: Architectural projects, 1953-2009
•      Project: Biblioteca de México, Mexico City, Mexico, 2001-2003

People

• Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)
• Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
• Iñaki Abalos (architect)
• Juan Herreros (architect)

Title

Biblioteca de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Dates of creation

2001-2003

Level of archival description

Project

Extent and Medium

• 26 drawings
• 5 printouts
• 0.02 l.m. of textual records

Scope and Content

The project series documents Abalos & Herreros’ entry for an open competition for the national library José Vasconcelos, Mexico city, Mexico. The firm identified this project as number 170.

“The central library is a county’s visible deposit for its culture, a legacy to the future; contemplating al [sic] periods of a culture in a holistic and integrated way crosses historic earas [sic] and puts human memory in relation to geological time, a substrate which shelters and protects human life. [The] library will establish this dialogue by anchoring in the site, the city and the country by basic gesture putting the geologic substrate, the lagoon and the volcanos which construct and nourish the earth as a relief. A lagoon perforated by seven craters composes the germlike landscape which starts the projects, giving us a first drawing which transforms the space almost into a lake of waterlilies.” (ARCH270975)

Documenting the project are conceptual drawings, competition documents, resumes, correspondence and a map.

Reference Number

AP164.S1.2003.D7

Arrangement

Materials in this project series were kept in their original order.

Location

Mexico City Mexico

Language of material

Spanish

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  • Reference Number: ARCH278052
  • Title: Abalos & Herreros and ARUP's resumes, correspondence, and sketches, Biblioteca de México, Mexico City
  • Dates of creation: 2001, 2003, predominant 2003
  • Form: drawings, textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
  • Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)

  Description:

  File's title: Curriculum: concurso Biblioteca nacional Mexico.
  
  Contains a map as well.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file

  Extent and Medium:

  • 5 drawings

  Dimensions:

  records: 0,02 l.m.

  Location:

  Mexico City Mexico

  Credit line:

  Abalos & Herreros fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Iñaki Ábalos et Juan Herreros/
  Gift of Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
  

  Folder Number:

  164-203-005

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  • Reference Number: ARCH278053
  • Title: Sketches and competition documents, Biblioteca de México, Mexico City
  • Dates of creation: ca. 2003
  • Form: drawings, textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
  • Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)

  Description:

  File's title: Biblioteca Mexico, 170.

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file

  Extent and Medium:

  • 21 drawings, 5 printouts

  Physical Description:

  - Some drawings are folded.

  Location:

  Mexico City Mexico

  Credit line:

  Abalos & Herreros fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
  Don de Iñaki Ábalos et Juan Herreros/
  Gift of Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
  

  Folder Number:

  164-203-006