• Utopia in corduroy concrete: the mesmerising architecture of a Mexican master

    Utopia in corduroy concrete: the mesmerising architecture of a Mexican master
    Guadalajara is often seen as a place of tequila and mariachi music. Can Alejandro Zohn, whose buildings include a market roofed by giant shells, make it famous for architecture?A miniature billboard pokes up above the neatly trimmed hedge in the garden of the Schindler House in Los Angeles, as if a roadside ad had blown in from nearby Sunset Strip. Cantilevered from a chunky steel column, strapped to a base of pink concrete blocks, it is a startling arrival on the grounds of this hallowed modern

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