soumaya museum, irrigacion, mexico city by LAR/fernando romero, 2007- ongoing
courtesy LAR/fernando romero

opening today is the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of fernando romero
and his mexico city–based practice, LAR (laboratory of architecture).the exhibition is
on view in the heinz architectural center at carnegie museum of art until may 31, 2009.

in the exhibition fernando romero and his practice, LAR present 20 key projects.
illuminated models are complemented by large photographs of mexico city that depict
the context for much of romero’s work. informed by his studies of mexico city
and the U.S./mexican border, romero responds to the challenges and hopes of mexico
with new building forms, imaginative structures, and concepts for civic space.
romero is also currently working on projects in the united states, europe, and china.

models of projects are divided into four categories: orthogonal,
non-orthogonal, organic, and communal. orthogonal includes sleek rectilinear
pavilions that reinterpret the classic modernist glass house, and an ambitious
master plan for mexico city’s polanco district. non-orthogonal includes more
complex crystalline shapes, some functioning as bridges—as in the case of
museum bridge mexico/USA to link disconnected terrains.

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soumaya museum, irrigacion, mexico city, 2007- ongoing
courtesy LAR/fernando romero


bridging mexico/USA, ciudad juarez, chihuahua/el paso, texas, 2000–ongoing
courtesy LAR/fernando romero


bridge tea house for the jinhua architecture park, 2006


bridge tea house for the jinhua architecture park, 2006

educated at the universidad iberoamericana in mexico city, romero (born 1971) worked
from 1997 to 2000 in rotterdam, the netherlands, for rem koolhaas’s office for
metropolitan architecture (OMA), where he was project leader for the casa da música
in porto, portugal (completed 2005). in 1999, romero established LCM
(laboratorio de la ciudad de méxico) in mexico city as an architectural practice,
a studio to investigate urban phenomena, and an organizer of cultural events. romero’s
principal architectural activities are now carried out through LAR.