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"\u201CI try to collaborate with nature to create vivacious designs,\u201D says Marco Aldaco, the prominent Mexican architect whose buildings are celebrated for their soulfulness and sculptural drama.\n\n\u201CI work with the eternal materials\u2014brick, cement, wood, stone, stucco, marble. I have not found any better materials\u2014none more practical, none cheaper\u2014than the traditional ones.\u201D\n\nHaving designed residences in his native country everywhere from Quintana Roo to Acapulco (for Aristotle and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis), Aldaco is known for his technical mastery\u2014of scale, color and materials\u2014yet it\u2019s something more intuitive that he thinks about most when he sits down at the drawing board: He wants all of his houses to have the effect on his clients of \u201Csatisfying and improving their spiritual perceptions.\u201D\n\nTo do so, he is sensitive to the landscape, the villages and the history of the regions where he builds, incorporating primitive and indigenous elements.\n\nClosely involved in each project, he maintains a small firm (there are just two other members) and takes on only two or three projects a year. \u201CWe\u2019re the creators and directors of the projects, so we do few at the same time.\u201D Although all of his houses are \u201Ctotally contemporary,\u201D Aldaco says, \u201Cthey are not fashionable.\u201D Humility, he explains, is an essential quality of each.\n\n\u201CI will never do absurd and very costly things for the principal end of impressing others.\u201D\n\nMarco Aldaco\n\n 52-33-3642-2959"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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