Villa Floresta: Transborder Living: Tijuana, Morphosis, and the Beginning of a Practice

Reassessing Morphosis' first built project-a modernist vision of housing that both collaborated and clashed with the complexities of Mexico's northern border

The first in a new Arquine series titled Transborder Living, Villa Floresta revisits the history of a group of five houses designed in Tijuana in 1975 by Thom Mayne, Michael Rotondi and Livio Santini-the first official built project by Morphosis Architects.