Mexico’s architecture is world-famous for good reason. It blends ancient indigenous traditions with Spanish colonial style and bold modern design. From Luis Barragán’s colorful walls to today’s ...

Mario Schjetnan is one of Mexico's most acclaimed landscape architects, in a career that spans nearly half a century.

The chukum tree is a semi-hardwood thorny tree found throughout the Yucatan peninsula, used also for dying textiles and tanning leather. To create chukum stucco, bark from the tree is boiled twice and ...

Art Deco is an artistic and design style that emerged in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reaching its peak in the 1920s and 1930s. Although it's difficult to identify a single origin ...

Architecture doesn’t generally sneak up on you. You look for it because you’ve seen a castle in photos, crossed an ocean for a cathedral, or been assured of a house’s masterpiece status. But on a ...

The Mexican architect Javier Senosiain has an aversion to straight lines; his sinuous, surreal buildings take their design cues from flowers, mushrooms, mollusks and snakes. So it feels appropriate to ...

Fascinating insights into modernist architecture abound in the offerings of Modernism Week this February. Some of the events on the schedule are particularly important for the local architecture ...

There’s a moment just after dawn in Todos Santos, when the sun stretches its rays across the Baja peninsula, transforming the landscape with hues of gold and amber. It’s a quiet magic—one that lingers ...

Contemporary artists examine the rhetoric and legacy of modernism in “Condemned to be Modern” at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. In the late 1950s, the art ...

A lush new coffee table book on Santa Fe style has landed at our local book and home stores. The book, Santa Fe Sense of Place, by Jane Smith, features 18 distinctive homes. Jane’s book reminds us of ...

Mexican architecture practice Aidia Studio brings together imaginative ways of building and biophilic references ...

The historic district in downtown Roma, Texas, was settled in 1765 by Spanish colonists from Mexico. Many buildings feature 19th-century molded brick columns, flat roofs and wrought iron balcony ...