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01/06/23

MEET OUR MEXICAN TALENTS

MEET ISABEL ABASCAL
MEET ISABEL ABASCAL
MEET ISABEL ABASCAL
Isabel is originally from Madrid, Spain. She now calls Mexico City her home, where she writes, teaches (abroad) and runs her architecture firm LANZA Atelier, co-founded with her husband, Alessandro Arienzo, with whom she has two young children. Pia Riverola visited her at her home in the Escandon neighborhood of Mexico and photographed her in the space she’s restoring little by little.
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ABOUT MEXICO CITY

“My partner Alessandro and I moved to Mexico City at the end of 2014 for work. Parallel to that work, I also write and teach. I think Mexico City offers lots of opportunities for young architects. If you're eager to do things it's a good place to be. It's a very complex place, very contradictory, very dual. At times it's chaotic but also very beautiful too. It’s less focused on what you do and less rigid. You can imagine who you want to be. It's a city where we walk around a lot and [those walks] don't necessarily relate to architecture, but we find inspiration”.
ABOUT MEXICO CITY
ON HER CURRENT HOME

ON HER CURRENT HOME

“We found it in a really bad shape, there was no roof and it was ready to be demolished. We can date back the construction to maybe 120 years ago, because the base of some of the walls were made with boulders from a nearby river which doesn't exist anymore. So we really wanted to rescue it and add a contemporary part to it. The beautiful thing is that it offers three [openair] spaces, where you can observe the slowness of watching the flowers grow and the insects and birds and cats that come by. I think that’s the beauty of patios, they’re really quite magical”.

ON HER PERSONAL STYLE

“There are similar concepts in getting dressed and architecture. I love monochromatic things—and sometimes we like to try to solve projects with only one material—this could apply to getting dressed in only one thing like a jumpsuit”.
ON HER PERSONAL STYLE
ON HER FAVORITE PLACES IN MEXICO CITY

ON HER FAVORITE PLACES IN MEXICO CITY

“I love the forest in Chapultepec Park, Bosque de Chapultepec, where you’ll find The Anthropology Museum, the Tamayo Museum, Papalote Museo Del Niño. I also love the Anahuacalli museum by Diego Rivera and Casa Estudio Diego y Frida in San Ángel by Juan O’Gorman. There’s a nice restaurant across the street [from Casa Estudio Diego y Frida in San Ángel] in an old hacienda called San Angel Inn”.
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