Muted Roundabouts
An essay on the need to legislate the right to memory and current memory disputes in Mexico. Featured on the printed edition of Gatopardo.
2022
SPACE10: Tomorrow's Neighbourhoods
2022
UNAM: Memorials and Monuments
A conversation about monuments, memorials, memory and their politics.
2022
Planta Libre: Architecture for Memory
Podcast episode on Sergio's approaches to memory and justice
2022
Collapsing Time, Folding Space
Short essay written for A*Desk, Critical Thinking magazine, on the materiality of memory
2021
A Memorial to the Pandemic
A conversation Patricia Eunji Kim (NYU; Monument Lab) moderated by Marianne Hirsch (Columbia).
2021
Transitional Justice & Memorialization
A conversation with University of Connecticut's Robin Adéle Greeley (Symbolic Reparations Research Project) and Michael Orwicz (Human Rights Institute). Sergio spoke on the role of architecture in developing processes of memorialization for victims of mass human rights abuse.
2021
Seismographic Memory
Dissertation for the MA Research Architecture program, completed with distinction at Goldsmiths, University of London
2020
Resonant Collapses
An investigation that articulates tectonics, desiccation, and regulation to inquire the politics of seismic destruction.
2020
2020 Monument Lab Transnational Fellow
2020
Memory Studies Association 2019
Presentation during International Annual Conference of the MSA
2019
MOYOCOYANI
This is my Bachelor's Thesis, a dissertation on the design of memory throughout the past 5 centuries and where we should head in this 21st Century
2013
ACT 2018
Sergio held a talk about Memorials and Forensic Architecture at the International Science, Arts and Technology Conference for the Mexican Secretary of Culture.
2018
Aspen Ideas Festival 2018
Sergio questions a panel on Populism in America about policies regarding Mexico.
2018
Memoria Damnificada
Article written for renowned lifestyle magazine "Gatopardo" explaining the difference between moments and memorials and how this misunderstanding causes problems in public works of architecture, specifically the Earthquake Memorial in Mexico City.
2018
Irrestorable - MVT Journal
A critical theory article I wrote, originally published in the online Art & Architectural journal: MVT
2016
RUMAH
Using the same methodology as in Alterritorios, I was invited in summer 2014 to facilitate a workshop in Bandung, Indonesia meant to inspire a group of Indonesian artists, architects, urban designers, product designers (and a writer) to create a memorial in a rapidly gentrifying community.
2014
Arquine: Construir Demoliendo
An article I wrote published in the international Spanish Architecture and Design magazine Arquine
2015
Arte Polis
In summer 2010 and summer 2014 I was invited to speak at the Arte-Polis International Conference on Creative Culture and the Making of Place, hosted by the Technical Institute of Bandung. Thus, with the support of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I flew across the Pacific as an ambassador to South Asia, speaking of my work as an architect interested in creating alternative design processes to achieve more democratic, critical and diverse architecture.
2014
Vaciar y volver a llenar
Article about Mexico's most important public square: the Zócalo.
2015
Rayo Gentrificador
Article about gentrification in Mexico City. Originally published on the MásDe131 Newspaper.
2015
Silo de Celuloide
Critical architecture article for the Museum of Film project by Taller de Arquitectura Rocha Carrillo. Originally published in the international magazine Domus
2013
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