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As she does with her academic work, Fernanda Canales roots her practice in a thorough knowledge of the environment, its resources, and its people, thanks to which she has made it possible for projects conceived in the spirit of mending inequality in her native Mexico to be veritable agents of change and sources of pride for their users. Arquitectura Viva features five of them in a journey from the the capital to two cities in Sonora, close to the United States border. The issue’s dossier further presents two libraries recently completed in Asia by international firms: the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem by Herzog & de Meuron, and the Beijing City Library by Snøhetta.
