Puerto Vallarta News

Puerto Vallarta News

Organic Architect in Mexico finds inspiration in snakes and peanuts

Architect Javier Senosiain looks out over his sinuous snake's nest of a building, which seems to writhe amid a green and tranquil vista on the very edge of Mexico City's urban sprawl and reflects on over 30 years of building egg- and cocoon-like dwellings that are quite literally out of the box.

"When a child is born we put him an incubator, which is a box," said Senosiain, 68. "Then we put him a playpen. The child is placed in a succession of boxes throughout his life, and then when he dies, where we put him in . . .

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