Javier Sánchez

Javier Sánchez is a Mexican developer and architect primarily known for contemporary construction in Mexico City, especially the Condesa neighborhood. Sánchez is the founding partner and lead designer of the Mexico City firm JSª, known as Higuera + Sanchez from 1996-2007. Obras magazine voted Sánchez one of the forty most influential architects of the past forty years.

Projects (partial list)

Mexico City

The new wing of the Spanish Cultural Center(2011) 13 de Septiembre Adaptive Reuse Housing (2005) Hotel Condesa DF (2004) Torre Ámsterdam, a 19-storey tower at Avenida Insurgentes 301-303, not to be confused with the Torre Ámsterdam in Santa Fe, Mexico City Additional works Most are apartment/condominium complexes unless otherwise noted.

Peru El 22 Beach Housing, (2006) outside Lima - Winner of the Silver Medal of the XI Biennale of Mexican Architecture .

In addition, Sánchez has designed projects in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, in Munich, Germany, and pavilions at the Venice Biennale.

Academic commissions University of Texas at San Antonio, Visiting Professor of Architectural Design in the Graduate Architecture Program for the 2013 spring semester Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) University of Washington Kansas State University, 2014-2015 Regnier Visiting Chair

Society memberships Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects