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of social, political, environmental, global and cultural conditions. He has been a jury member at World
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With Arturo Ortiz Struck, Derek
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during 2014. Perhaps two of the most meaningful commendations
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Corporate Architecture (2009), Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture (2009) and Open House: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living (2006).
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Magazine as one of the “50 Mexican Names in the Global
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