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Architect and interior designer Jorge Loyzaga launches his new monograph, featuring over 20 houses and estates that are among Loyzaga’s finest projects. In conversation with Philip Alavré, Mauricio de la Garza Clariond, and Sophia Loyzaga.
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A vibrant collection of projects from the Mexican architect and interior designer Jorge Loyzaga, exquisitely captured by one of today’s most exciting travel and interiors photographers.
Based in Mexico City, Jorge Loyzaga’s multidisciplinary practice has focused on the preservation of traditions within architecture, interiors, furniture, and the decorative arts since its founding in 1969. Informed by a passion for classic design, heritage, and timeless craftsmanship, as well as Loyzaga’s training in the restoration of historical monuments, the firm’s sophisticated perspective of architecture and interiors translate time-honored style and local traditions into a contemporary, international visual language.
This volume presents over 20 houses and estates among Loyzaga’s finest projects. With classical models serving as inspiration—ranging from Spanish Baroque cathedrals to Beaux-Arts boulevards and 18th-century French châteaux—the featured buildings and interiors display Loyzaga’s one-of-a-kind mix of pre-Hispanic, Spanish, and other European elements. Unpublished photographs showcase striking designs of both interiors and exteriors enlivened by Loyzaga’s signature style, defined by vibrant, luxurious touches and a detailed approach to historic influences. From a Tuscan-style villa with ornate Italian décor to a Mexican Colonial abode and a private home that evokes a Parisian hotel particulier, this volume offers endless inspiration for the modern interiors enthusiast.
Jorge Loyzaga is an architect born in Mexico City to a Basque family. He has an academic and classical training, he has focused on the preservation of traditions and crafts within architecture and decoration and has an exceptional knowledge of architecture from the last 5 centuries, from Greco-Roman to Art Deco.
Traveling has always been a great source of inspiration. Since he was little he had an interest in old things, and liked to go to villages to explore the houses and churches.
Jorge Loyzaga studied architecture and restoration of historical monuments in Mexico at UNAM and at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Later he worked as a restorer in Valdivia, Chile, in Peru in the consolidation of the Iglesia de la Merced in Cusco, in Córdoba Argentina on the roof of the Iglesia de la Compañía, and finally in Tunja, Colombia in the province of Boyacá. From there he was called to Mexico to form the restoration school together with UNESCO.
In the 1970s he began as a professor at UNAM and at the Universidad Iberoamericana, work that he did for 10 years. There he realized that by knowing the old styles he could remake them and that there was a niche of people who had an interest in making and keeping their houses in these styles. It was then that he began his career as a mainly residential architect and founded Estudio Loyzaga firm. He has designed buildings, houses, apartments, ranches and haciendas, residential developments, among others. Combining with the architectural work is restoration, among the most outstanding being the decoration of the Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City and its participation in the restoration of the cathedral of Mexico City.
One of his great passions in life is the New Hispanic presence in Asia, mainly in the Mariana Islands where he restored forts in Guam and the Philippines, a country that was a province of Mexico for 250 years. Here Jorge Loyzaga helped train Filipino restorers and created the Professions school-workshop.
He is a member of the AIA as well as ICCA and IIDA. He has made more than 800 Classic-style houses in the Mexican Republic, the United States, and Spain. Among his latest non-residential architectural works are the Solar de las Ánimas Hotel (Relais Chateau), the Hacienda Centenario convention center and the Juan Beckmann Gallardo Museum, all in the town of Tequila, Jalisco.
Education has always been a subject of great interest to Jorge Loyzaga. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Universidad Iberoamericana as well as of the Board of Trustees of the Monterrey History Museum.
He has earned the trust of his clients over the years and has already made many houses for first, second and third generations. This is because he has never been carried away by fashion, his houses are totally timeless and never go out of style.
The Loyzaga Design Studio is also a Research Center and Professions School for craftmanship where dozens of artisans and architects have been trained. It has a library of more than 20 thousand history, architecture and decoration books. Many of these craft professions were lost but have been rescued, each time having more value.
In 2019 Loyzaga Design was consolidated as a brand, with his daughters Fernanda and Sophia within the Studio, continuing the same tradition and culture in design and opening lines of furniture and decorative objects.
Sophia Loyzaga was born in Mexico City in 1989. Since she was young she went on trips, museums and excursions with her family. Always her father saying to her, "You have to educate the eye and always have the capacity to be amazed." In this way she learned to analyze people, customs, traditions and ways of thinking.
She studied Business Administration at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. During college, she went to work with fashion designer Kris Goyri (2010), who was just getting started at the time. She entered as his assistant until she became the brand manager. Working with Kris closely for eight years, they managed to make Kris Goyri the most recognized fashion designer/brand in Mexico. In 2014 she moved to New York where she continued to expand the brand. In 2017 Sophia made the decision to leave Kris Goyri to dedicate all her time to consolidate the Loyzaga Design brand.
Estudio Loyzaga existed for more than five decades as an architecture, decoration and restoration firm started by her father Jorge Loyzaga. One of the Studio's most important focuses are crafts and craftsmen, always present in the architecture and furniture that is designed. Thanks to Sophia this knowledge was channeled in 2019 to create the first line of furniture and decorative objects by Loyzaga Design. Sophia is an active member of MIA, a women's community to support, promote and create positive change in society, as well as the Casa Hogar Ayuda y Solidaridad foundation, which has more than 70 vulnerable girls at risk of homelessness.
Educated as an architect, born as a traveler and photographer, Mauricio de la Garza Clariond has always believed in the importance of the Classical aesthetics and philosophies. When studying architecture in Mexico, Mauricio participated in several exchange programs in Florence and Rome, where he studied Classical, Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture. And that is when his relationship with Italy began. Art, architecture, travelling and photography are all basic weapons for appreciating our world. They are all interconnected. For Mauricio, his studies in the Arts and Architecture shaped his perspective on life, while photography is the tool he uses to share his perspective on cultural heritage and its conservation.
Mauricio’s personal project, Mal de Mar (Instagram @maldemar ), started as a multidisciplinary house where architecture, interior design, photography and travel projects merge as one. de la Garza Clariond is now based in Mexico City and has participated in several important art fairs like Zona Maco 2015 and Material Art Fair 2014, a solo show in 2019 at Fundación de Artistas in Mérida, as well as being part of Materia by Peana Gallery based in Mexico City. In 2020, de la Garza Clariond published his first book “Latitudes of Reverence to an Eternal Sun,” a selection of photographs and personal texts, an ode to light (the Sun) and its effects throughout the latitudes of different cultures, physical features, local architecture and spiritual manifestations.
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