X -Arquitectos

Argentina

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PROFILE

Ricardo Esteban Sargiotti and José Ignacio Santillán formed X Arquitectos in 2003, united by their common passion for architecture education and practice. The two Cordoba-based practice directors combine professional experience in Argentine practices with work at studios in Milan and Frankfurt. They currently both teach at the Universidad Católica de Córdoba, while Sargiotti is also heavily involved at local universities Blas Pascal and Torcuato Di Tella. Acknowledging that both architecture itself as well as clients’ needs change with time, X Arquitectos accommodates individual requirements, technological innovations as well as social change. “We see architecture as a discipline which feeds from all aspects of culture and for which inspiration can be hugely varied, depending on the project’, they explain. “We are equally interested in cultural production as much as architectural, in the architecture of our country as well as internationally, and in both old and new designs’.

Virus House

X Arquitectos designed their Virus House as a form of manifesto towards the country’s current social and urban situation and especially the phenomenon of gated communities. Offering their ironic version to this reality, X Arquitectos's design denounces those suburban districts, which initially developed for security reasons but today seem only to promote, according to the architects, social segregation and alienation. ‘Within this context, the situation for the architects is really disheartening,’ they add.


http://www.x-arquitectos.com.ar

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