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כנסי עבר // Speakers // 2000: Reinventing Space

11 - 14 June 2000

Enrique Norten

Having completed his architecture education at Cornell University in 1980, Enrique Norten returned to his native Mexico City where he founded Taller de Enrique Norten (TEN) Arquitectos in 1985. Critics have described his approach as courageous for rejecting both formulaic Mexicanidad and historical eclecticism; resulting in provocative and enticing buildings that lend a legibility to the orphan images overloading the city. The wave turning in on itself that is the Multi-Purpose Building for Televisa in Mexico City (1995), for example, is a brilliant technological and urbanistic solution as well as a specifically Mexican contribution to the discourse of modern architecture. This project won the Mies van der Rohe Award for Latin American Architecture (1998), added to Norten's other honours such as the Latin American Grand Award (1993), Progressive Architecture awards (1994, 1995), and Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architecture (1999). Other notable built work includes the Alianza Francesa (1992), the National School of Theatre (1994), the Insurgentes Theatre renovation (1995), all in Mexico City. Norten has engaged in a distinguished teaching career at many universities in both Mexico and the USA; among them, Harvard, Rice, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was one of the founders of the magazine Arquitectura.

Enrique Norten

Image: National School of Theatre, Mexico City, Mexico (1994)
Photo: Luis Gordoa