Juan López Newton

Juan López Vergara Newton studied Architecture at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he taught different architectural courses for eleven years. He has participated in numerous architecture exhibitions and has collaborated as curator in art shows in various museums and galleries. Since 2010, he has been invited to impart lectures and seminars in different cultural institutions such as Centro para la Cultura Arquitectónica y Urbana and Foro de Arquitectura (Guadalajara) and Casa de Arquitectura (Querétaro, Mexico).

Juan has built a number of private and public buildings. One of his built works (Rehabilitación de imagen urbana de la calle López Cotilla) received a distinction at the X Bienal de Arquitectura Jalisciense (2017). And the project Rehabilitación del Parque de las Estrellas (rehabilitation of the park and the chapel designed by Luis Barragán, in collaboration with Sergio Ortiz) received the XVI Premio de Arquitectura Jalisco (2018). Over the years, he has contributed to different magazines and books. In 2022 he has published two books with his colleague, the architect Sergio Ortiz: Una leve exageración (The slightest exaggeration) and Oraciones sobre la casa y otras oraciones (translation of John Hejduk’s poem Sentences on the House and other Sentences).

He is currently writing the dissertation to obtain a Master Degree in Philosophy. The focus of his research is the relationship between Architecture and Poetry, particularly the diverse poetic aspects of dwelling.