In the two decades since its founding in Mexico City, TEN Arquitectos has soared to a position of international acclaim. Firm principal Enrique Norten is known for a robust modern style that combines elements of high-tech; a clear, at times diagrammatic expression of function; and a concern.for environmental sustainability. Conceived to represent the current state of the practice, Working: 20 Projects in Process is a dynamic presentation of photographs, models, drawings, and renderings. A vital element in Norten's design process is what he calls the jellyfish diagram; these graphically innovative analyses of program and site are translated, more or less directly, into final building form. Representations of the works at each phase of development offer insight into the rich variety of projects on the drawing boards.

In the two decades since its founding in Mexico City, TEN Arquitectos has soared to a position of international acclaim. Firm principal Enrique Norten is known for a robust modern style that combines elements of high-tech; a clear, at times diagrammatic expression of function; and a concern.for environmental sustainability. Conceived to represent the current state of the practice, Working: 20 Projects in Process is a dynamic presentation of photographs, models, drawings, and renderings. A vital element in Norten's design process is what he calls the jellyfish diagram; these graphically innovative analyses of program and site are translated, more or less directly, into final building form. Representations of the works at each phase of development offer insight into the rich variety of projects on the drawing boards.

The designs shown in Working range from museums and cultural institutions to educational facilities and commercial projects. Among them are four important competition schemes: the Guggenheim Museum Guadalajara, scheduled to begin construction in 2008; theVisual and Performing Arts Library in Brooklyn, NewYork; the Free Library of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania; and the Busan Cinema Complex in South Korea. Numerous works shown are currently under construction, including 1YorkTribeca, a residential building in NewYork City; the Chopo Museum in Mexico City, the conversion of a nineteenth-century exhibition pavilion into atwenty-first- century museum; and the National Laboratory of Genomics in Guanajuato, Mexico, with public and private spaces delineated by an inscribed fault Hollywood in California, a master plan and build- line. The James Hotel West ingsfor the College Avenue Camp.us of Rutgers University in New Jersey, the breaktaking glass construction of the Center for the Indigenous Arts in Mexico City and ten otherprojects complete this timely record of the work of Enrique Norten and TEN Arquitectos.

Acknowledgments

Introduction/Deyan Sudjic

01/Visual and Performing Arts Library

02/Free Library of Philadelphia

03/Harlem Park

04/Weston Performing Arts Center

05/1 York Tribeca

06/Chopo Museum

07/Lincoln East

08/Centinelas

09/Guggenheim Museum Guadalajara

10/Parques Polanco

11/James Hotel West Hollywood

12/National Laboratory of Genomics

13/Busan Cinema Complex

14/Brickell Plaza

15/College Avenue Campus, Rutgers University

16/Center for the Indigenous Arts

17/Americas 1905

18/MUNPIC

19/Metropolitan Theater

20/Eurocenter

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