Mexropolis Exhibitions program Cities Connection Project 07 (Architectures in Transition) and Inner imaginaryby AJAC (Grouping of Young Architects of Catalonia).
Cities Connection Project 07 (Transitional architectures) presents 60 projects of young architects of Barcelona, Brussels and Luxembourgfocused on the reuse of built heritage and social responsibility. In Mexicapoli, Mexico DF joins the sample with about twenty local projects, in order to foster a dialogue between Europe and the Mexican reality. The exhibition will open on September 20 at 14.30 will be open until October 26 in the Laguna Space.
CCP07, a project founded in 2012 by Xavier Bustos and Nicola Regusci, promotes exchanges between architecture studies in different territories, with the aim of creating a network of cultural connections between cities, emphasizing contemporary architecture and urbanism. In parallel with the exhibition to be seen in Mexico, various activities have been programmed such as conferences and debates.
So on September 20 at 1pm the round table will take place Connected cities: Transition architectures with the participation of Xavier Bustos, Maira González, Josep María Borrell and Alex Gallego. As part of this table, the recycling of historic buildings and their socio -economic impacts in neighborhoods will be analyzed, taking cases of Mexico City, Barcelona, Luxembourg and Brussels. The table will reflect on how architecture can balance innovation, conservation and protection of communities in the face of gentrification pressure.
On Sunday, September 21, another debate table will be held with the presence of Nicola Regusci (Barcelona), Philippe Nathan (Luxembourg), César Reyes Nájera (Barcelona) and Maribel Casas (Luxembourg).
The exhibition Imaginary interiorcurated by the post like collective and inspired by the Interior manifesto by Javier Fernández Contreras, explores the role of architectural model at scale As a critical and project tool. Fourteen mock -ups of emerging studies in Barcelona and Mexico City dialogue on ways to reform, expand and inhabit the existing one, proposing critical readings and new forms of interior. Curated by the collective Post likecomposed by Eduard Fernàndez, Arnau Pascual, Marina Povedano and Laura Solsona, It is his first sample outside of Europe, after submitting projects in Barcelona, Madrid and Berlin. In the frame of Mexópoli 2025the initiative opens a generational and intercontinental bridge to meet the urban challenges of the present and the future. This exhibition opens on September 18 at 8pm at the San Ildefonso College and will be open until October 26.
Mexrópoli has also programmed several conferences with the prominence of Catalan architects. So on Friday the 19th At 10.30am the architect Marta Benedictofrom a certain study, will give a conference In which he will explain the work of this Barcelona group, led by a group of young architects, which stands out for a collaborative and experimental practice, which combines research, pedagogy and work built with a critical look at the city.
Later, at 16.30h, Clara Solà Moraleswill exhibit the lines of work of his study, focused on projects sensitive to the context and urban memory.
Mexropoli looks up in the UIA World Congress of Architecture which will take place next year in Barcelona. Thus, a round table has been planned that will take place Day 20 at 6pm. This table, linked to the UIA 2026 World Congress of Architects to be held in Barcelona in June 2026, explores how architecture can respond to a planet in transformation. Strategies and projects that connect the local with the global will be discussed, promoting open, collective and urban processes in the face of social, environmental and cultural challenges.
It will have the participation of the team of commissioners – made up of Pau Bajet, Mariona Benedito, Maria Giramé, Tomeu Ramis, Pau Sarquella, Carmen Torres – along with the director of the congress, Guim Costa.
