Beijing and Mexico City
Coincidences and differences of two megalopolis
痕迹：世界与墨西哥城
北京与墨西哥城——两座大都市之间的异同点
UNAM-China
Speakers:
Dr. Peter Krieger (researcher at the Institute for Aesthetic Research and a professor in the Postgraduate Programs in Architecture and Art History at UNAM)
M. Isaac Landeros (master in Architectural design from UNAM)
Moderator: Pablo Mendoza (academic and cultural cordinator at UNAM-China)
This dialogue offers a comparative vision between the capitals of China and Mexico, megacities with different development patterns, but with multiscale similarities. Focused on the fields of architecture, city and landscape, three main themes will be reviewed: first, territorial policies and urban strategies to organize
an habitat of around 20 million people; secondly, the impact of globalization manifested in contemporary architecture, in a context of accelerated metamorphosis of the urban substance; and thirdly, a review of the conflictive relationship between the city and nature that includes a reflection on the rural condition in the megacities outskirts.
Each of these three axes starts from a suggestive photograph that represents the theme and the problem in the two cities, Beijing and Mexico City. The dialogue concludes with considerations about the scope and limits of the comparison and its inherent epistemic danger of producing clichés or “exoticizing” the other. In this sense, the dialogue reviews the coincidences with academic rigor and a critical spirit.
讲座内容：
墨西哥与中国两国的首都同为大都市，尽管发展模式不同，在多个方面上仍存在共同点。本讲话便是从比较的思路出发，围绕这两座城市展开，又着重着眼于建筑、城市和风景三方面，提出了三个中心主题：一是为建设能够容纳两千万人左右的居住环境所应实施的国土政策和城市化战略；二是在城市内涵加速转变的背景下，全球化对当代建筑的影响；三是对城市与自然的对立关系作出的反思，其中包括了对大城市城郊农村地区设施条件状况的反思。三个主题皆由一张发人深省的，表现了北京与墨西哥城这两座城市的主题和问题的照片出发。本场讲话中还对比较研究的成果与局限性，及其可能造成刻板印象或异化现象的内在危险性作出了思考。在这方面，本讲话本着学术严谨和批判精神，对两座城市之间的共同点也进行了分析。
Peter Krieger
彼得·克里格
Peter Krieger, born 1961 in Wuppertal, Germany, studied art history, social history, and cultural studies at the Universities of Tübingen and Hamburg. In 1990 M.A., and 1996 Ph.D. in Art History, at the Graduate Program of Political Iconography. 1996 to 1998 visiting lecturer at Hamburg and Bremen Universities, advisor of the Landmarks Preservation Commission of the cities of Hamburg and Rostock, Germany, architectural critic. Since 1998 research professor at the Institute of Aesthetic Research and professor at the graduate programs of architecture and art history at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Advisor of more than 80 doctoral and master thesis at the UNAM, and at universities in Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and Canada.
In 1995 awarded with the Elliot Willensky Fund, Municipal Art Society of New York, for his research on "Images of Postwar New York architecture in Germany - cultural transfer of ideas, hopes and fears”. 2002 to 2012 editor of the art historical review Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM. 2004 to 2012 Vicepresident of CIHA (International Committee of Art History, UNESCO). 2007 to 2014 fellow at the research project The Hispanic Baroque. Complexity in the First Atlantic Culture, “Transcultural and Transhistoric Efficiencies of the Baroque Paradigm” at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada / Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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Dr. Peter Krieger (researcher at the Institute for Aesthetic Research and a professor in the Postgraduate Programs in Architecture and Art History at UNAM)
墨西哥国立自治大学美学研究所研究员
1961年出生于德国乌帕塔，就读于图宾根大学和汉堡大学，学习艺术史、社会史和文化研究。分别于1990年和1996年获得政治图解学艺术史硕士、博士学位。1996到1998年期间任汉堡大学及不莱梅大学客座教授，德国汉堡及罗斯托克城历史建筑保护委员会顾问，建筑评论员。
自1998年起担任墨西哥国立自治大学美学研究所研究员、建筑及艺术史研究生项目导师，曾指导过该校及德国、比利时、瑞典、加拿大等国多所大学的硕士、博士论文的写作。
1995年凭借其对“德国战后纽约派建筑群像：创意、愿望及恐惧的跨文化迁移”的研究，获得纽约市立艺术协会艾略特·威廉斯基基金奖。
2002至2012年，任美学研究所艺术史年刊编辑；2004至2012年任联合国教科文组织国际艺术史委员会（CIHA）副主席；2007至2014年任加拿大社会科学和人文科学研究委员会（SSHRC）加拿大伦敦市韦仕敦大学“西语国家风格巴洛克”研究项目研究员。
Isaac Landeros
M. Isaac Landeros (master in Architectural design from the National Autonomous University of Mexico)
艾萨克·兰德罗斯
Isaac Landeros -graduate in Architecture from the University of Guadalajara and master in Architectural design from the National Autonomous University of Mexico with the research In Transit: Collective Transfer Spaces- is a Mexican designer who lives and works in Beijing since 2012. Detecting meeting points between Mexican and Chinese cultures has been one of the main focuses of his work, taking part in the organization, design or curation of exhibitions in collaboration with the Embassy of Mexico in China and the Mexican Studies Center of UNAM in China, in forums such as the Art Beijing Fair, the National
Museum of Art of China and Beijing Design Week, among others.
In 2019 Mr. Landeros was appointed as the main curator for the Mexico City exhibition as the guest city at Beijing Design Week and Suzhou Design Week. His articles have been published in academic journals such as Anales, from the Institute of Aesthetic Research of UNAM (2012) and Footprints, Delft Architecture Journal (2017), with topics that explore urban phenomena in the 21st century metropolis.
瓜达拉哈拉大学建筑学学士，墨西哥国立自治大学建筑设计硕士，硕士期间研究课题为“集体空间的转移进行时”，现为墨西哥设计师，自2012年起，在北京工作生活。从一开始，找到墨西哥文化和中国文化的共同点就是他的主要关注点之一。他与墨西哥驻华使馆和墨西哥国立自治大学驻华代表处合作，参与组织、设计或策划展览，也工作于北京艺术节论坛、中国国家美术馆论坛、北京设计周等。2019年，墨西哥城作为受邀城市参加北京设计周和苏州设计周，他主要负责在上述设计周中展示墨西哥城。他曾在《墨西哥国立自治大学美学研究院年刊（2012）》、《足迹》、《代尔夫特建筑报》等学术期刊上发表主题为探寻21世纪大都市的城市现象的文章。