Architect Rafael Pardo's buildings are almost sculptural: concrete prisms intersecting to form domestic spaces. In each of his projects he seeks to push the properties of concrete to the limit to achieve greater formal expressiveness, so that the material becomes structure, wall and finish. This publication narrates the premises and processes of his architecture that point towards a new brutalism, through essays, an interview and eight projects built in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz.
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