In this year Mexico is celebrating 200 years of independence. Many exhibitions and celebrations are taking place, both in Mexico and abroad. These events are very important because they open the space for reflection and make us think about what we have been doing in the last years. This exhibition and lecture shows the work of 20 young and middle-aged architects working in different scales and programmes, from small houses to urban planning in different cities of the country. Many questions rise after analyzing these projects: have we found our own specificity?; until which point Architecture and Urban Planning can rescue cities like Ciudad Juarez where political, social and economical issues have taken the city to the limit of inhabitability; how should places like Xochimilco be rescued and recovered from invasive settlements that are destroying the site?

LUBY SPRINGALL is a Mexican architect by the Iberoamericana University, Mexico 1982; she obtained two certifications in Painting by the Royal College of Art, London, 1995 and 1999; and obtained a diploma by the ITAM of Development and Finance of Real State, 2000. From 1990 to 2003 she was partner of Springall + Lira and in 1998 was awarded with the Silver Medal at the V Biennale of Mexican Architecture. In 2003 she and Julio Gaeta founded the firm Gaeta Springall arquitectos and since then it has been working in the design of public and private projects in housing, health, education, culture, landscape and master plan. During the last five years the firm has participated in fifteen architectural and urban competitions and has won seven first positions. In the 2004 and 2008 editions of Mexican Biennale of Architecture
obtained honor mentions for the Casa-Taller GS and 4 Houses. Their projects have been published in different architectural magazines and books in America as well as in Europe and have been part of several exhibitions: Sao Paolo Biennale of Architecture in 2005; Biennale of Venice in 2008; Panoramic of Uruguayan Architecture, Sao Paolo-Montevideo 2009; Contemporary Uruguayan Architecture, Barcelona – Montevideo 2010; and the Mexican Contemporary Architecture in Melbourne 2010. Since 2007 she runs a design workshop at the Iberoamericana University. As an artist she has had five individual and eight collective exhibitions in Mexico, London and Canada.
In 2003 she received the grant by FONCA – CONACULTA for the Artistic Residency at the Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada.

Architecture+Philosophy 2010, 2011
Architecture+Philosophy is a flexible independent program. We are still accepting proposals for lectures, roundtables, and other methds to gather a forum of thinkers and makers for our 2010 and 2011 calendars.