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Thanks for your enthusiastic participation in our open call for the third—and last—issue of ARQ’s 2025 editorial trilogy, This is America. We received over 90 submissions, which has us thrilled (and very busy!). If you’re in Chile, you’re warmly invited to the launch of issue 120 (América Popular / Popular America). If you’re abroad, the issue will soon be available Open Access through SciELO. Prefer paper? You can find printed issues of the journal on Buscalibre, with somewhat reasonable shipping rates outside Chile.
ARQ 121: Utopian America / América utópica
[NOW CLOSED]
Thanks for your enthusiastic participation in our open call for the third—and last—issue of ARQ’s 2025 editorial trilogy, This is America. We received over 90 submissions, which has us thrilled (and very busy!). If you’re in Chile, you’re warmly invited to the launch of issue 120 (América Popular / Popular America). If you’re abroad, the issue will soon be available Open Access through SciELO. Prefer paper? You can find printed issues of the journal on Buscalibre, with somewhat reasonable shipping rates outside Chile.
Launch: 4 september 2025, 18:30, Campus Lo Contador UC
ARQ 120: Popular America / América popular
Stephannie Fell (ed.); varios autores
This issue is the second in ARQ’s 2025 editorial cycle, This Is América—a trilogy that explores the continent from transnational perspectives. Popular America investigates how the city is inhabited in one of the world’s most densely populated and unequal regions. Through built works, projects, and essays, the issue explores the tensions between public space and private property, informality and the right to the city, revealing how architecture, landscape, and urban design can operate—through state-led, grassroots, or authorial approaches—as concrete tools for urban transformation.
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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
ARQ 119 | American Territories / Territorios Americanos (April 2025)
Libre acceso / Open AccessStephannie Fell (Ed.), several authors
Softcover
20.6 x 27 cm | 160 pp.
Español / English
This issue opens ARQ’s 2025 editorial cycle: This is America, a trilogy that seeks to think the continent from a transnational perspective. American Territories proposes to understand territory not merely as a geographic delimitation, but as a hinge between human communities, more-than-human environments, and global power networks. In the face of climate crisis and territorial inequality, architecture—along with landscape and urban design—is posed here as a critical tool. The projects gathered in this issue explore new ways of dwelling, producing, and caring, from the Amazon to the Atacama Desert, from floating cultural centers to displacement cartographies. Through them, ARQ 119 poses a pressing question: how can we intervene in territory without replicating the extractive logics that have already compromised it?
Contents
Editorial: American Territories — Stephannie Fell
Essays and Projects
California Dreamin’: Roberto Burle Marx and the Tremaine Garden — Pablo Alfaro
Bio-factory — gru.a
Babaçu Gatherers Reference Center — Estúdio Flume
Seasonal Forestry Archetype (Diploma Project) — Maryhoni Quispe Castillo
Building a Continent: MoMA’s Latin American Architecture Since 1945 Exhibition — Patricio del Real
Floating Habitats: La Balsanera and Santay Observatory — Natura Futura
Atlas of Displacement — Paulo Tavares and Laura Pappalardo
An Iconic Order: The Columns of Oscar Niemeyer — Ciro Miguel
Atacama Regional Museum — Max Núñez Arquitectos
Deposit in Caseros — moarqs
Opinion
The Climate of Education — Sebastián Cillóniz Isola
Collective Ownership Against Deforestation [in Spanish only] — Ana María Durán Calisto
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Read on ARQ+
PDF (SciELO)
Softcover
20.6 x 27 cm | 160 pp.
Español / English
ISSN: 0716-0852 (print) / 0717-6996 (online)
This issue opens ARQ’s 2025 editorial cycle: This is America, a trilogy that seeks to think the continent from a transnational perspective. American Territories proposes to understand territory not merely as a geographic delimitation, but as a hinge between human communities, more-than-human environments, and global power networks. In the face of climate crisis and territorial inequality, architecture—along with landscape and urban design—is posed here as a critical tool. The projects gathered in this issue explore new ways of dwelling, producing, and caring, from the Amazon to the Atacama Desert, from floating cultural centers to displacement cartographies. Through them, ARQ 119 poses a pressing question: how can we intervene in territory without replicating the extractive logics that have already compromised it?
Contents
Editorial: American Territories — Stephannie Fell
Essays and Projects
California Dreamin’: Roberto Burle Marx and the Tremaine Garden — Pablo Alfaro
Bio-factory — gru.a
Babaçu Gatherers Reference Center — Estúdio Flume
Seasonal Forestry Archetype (Diploma Project) — Maryhoni Quispe Castillo
Building a Continent: MoMA’s Latin American Architecture Since 1945 Exhibition — Patricio del Real
Floating Habitats: La Balsanera and Santay Observatory — Natura Futura
Atlas of Displacement — Paulo Tavares and Laura Pappalardo
An Iconic Order: The Columns of Oscar Niemeyer — Ciro Miguel
Atacama Regional Museum — Max Núñez Arquitectos
Deposit in Caseros — moarqs
Opinion
The Climate of Education — Sebastián Cillóniz Isola
Collective Ownership Against Deforestation [in Spanish only] — Ana María Durán Calisto