ARQ 120 | Popular America / América Popular
(August 2025)
Open Access / libre acceso Stephannie Fell (ed.), several authors
Softcover
20.6 x 27 cm | 160 pp.
English + Spanish
This issue is the second instalment of ARQ’s 2025 editorial cycle This is America. The cities of the Americas are many things at once: dense, unequal, improvised, vibrant. In them, the formal and the informal do not oppose so much as entangle, stacking atop one another in layers that sometimes collide, sometimes conspire. Through built works, projects, and essays, ARQ 120 explores the tensions between public space and private property, informality and the right to the city—revealing how architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design can offer concrete responses to the challenges of living together.
Contents
Essays and Projects
Opinion
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Softcover
20.6 x 27 cm | 160 pp.
English + Spanish
ISSN: 0716-0852 (printed) / 0717-6996 (online)
This issue is the second instalment of ARQ’s 2025 editorial cycle This is America. The cities of the Americas are many things at once: dense, unequal, improvised, vibrant. In them, the formal and the informal do not oppose so much as entangle, stacking atop one another in layers that sometimes collide, sometimes conspire. Through built works, projects, and essays, ARQ 120 explores the tensions between public space and private property, informality and the right to the city—revealing how architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design can offer concrete responses to the challenges of living together.
Contents
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Popular America (editorial) — Stephannie Fell
Essays and Projects
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The Shape of Light: The Arena do Morro Gymnasium and the Social Trajectory of Mãe Luiza — Mariana Vilela
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Ecatepec Bicentennial Park — Taller Capital
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Felipe Ángeles Fire Station — Departamento del Distrito + Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana + TALLER Architects
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22 de Noviembre Market — Rzero Estudio
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Unsettling the Commons: Property, Informality, and the Mexican Ejido — Giuliana Pavanelli Durón
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Casa Grande: Rebuilding Quickly and Well — ELEMENTAL
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Casa de Todos Annex — Enlace Arquitectura + Elisa Silva
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Collective Housing Tenure in Informal Settlements: Experiences and Lessons from Latin America — Benjamín Peralta
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MASP Expansion — METRO Arquitetos + Júlio Neves
- Quebrantahuesos: A Multiprogrammatic Infrastructure for the Development of Vertical Living [diploma project]— Daniel Gallardo
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Destinación Casa: A Cooperative Housing Strategy for Buenos Aires’ Immigrant Community [diploma project]— Vanesa Santillán Messina
Opinion
- Metis and Latin American Cities: Talca and Its Many Small Parking Lots — Felipe Miño