Inca Hernandez
Inca Hernandez is an Architect graduated from the Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira (UNET) in Venezuela. He has worked on different independent housing and cultural development projects in his native country. In 2015 he moved to Mexico where he had the opportunity to work with world-renowned architects such as Tadao Ando (Pritzker, 1995) and Álvaro Siza (Pritzker, 1992) in projects for Casa Wabi's Foundation in Oaxaca and New real estate and restoration developments in Mexico City. Currently, he has started his own firm Inca Hernández Arquitectura where he develops research, art direction, and architecture projects in Mexico, Venezuela, Italy, and Colombia.
He has been awarded Gold Trophy at the 2020 MUSE Design Awards in the Renovation category, First Place Winner at the 2020 Peninsula Awards by the Association of Architects and Interior Designers in Mexico, winner by the elected Jury and public in the 35th cycle of the World Architecture Community WA Awards, Honorable Mention in the prestigious Architecture MasterPrize 2020 in the Restoration & Renovation category, Honorable Mention in the Golden Trezzini Awards 2020. He has been published in different national and international media such as: Dezeen from the United Kingdom, Arquine from Mexico, Divisare from Italy, Metalocus from Spain, AD Russia, Architectural Digest India, Architectural Digest Mexico, ARQA from Uruguay, Glocal Design Magazine from Mexico, Gooood from China, Gestalten from Germany, Yapı Dergisi in Turkey, Trama Magazine from Ecuador, YouBuild Magazine in Italy, World Architects from Switzerland, among others. In 2021, he was the winner of the special "Architects of Tomorrow" recognition by The Plan.
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Inca Hernández restores old house with "organic minimalism" for young generations in Mexico City
WA Contents • Apr 20, 2021 • 5377
Mexico-based architect Inca Hernández has revealed design for the renovation of an old house in Mexico City, the project is currently under construction at site.
Called Venecia 20, the 315-square-metre house is restored from an old house, located in Mexico City’s Colonia Juarez, which was built in 1905.
The interior spaces of the project have been described with the features of "organic minimalism" that manifests itself through bright and pure spaces.
Catenary Arches and Deciduous time
The building is aimed to house young artists, writers and tourists in six loft-style housing units oriented as flexible spaces with vistas of the urban context. Inca Hernández conceived each unit as unique; reinterpreting (...)
Inca Hernandez renovates old house in Tacuba with multiple artistic and artisanal elements in Mexico
WA Contents • Aug 03, 2020 • 5537
Mexican architecture studio Inca Hernandez Arquitectura has renovated an old house in Tacuba with multiple artistic and artisanal elements in Mexico by giving a new life to the historic apartment.
Named Mar Mediterraneo 34, the house is located in Tacuba, Mexico City which has a historical setting with an enormous cultural and architectural heritage protected in its magical neighborhoods.
Tacuba is one of them, located northwest to the downtown, this neighborhood has undergone social and urban transformations that have lasted to this day and where vestiges forged at different times can be found.
As the architects highlight, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Tacuba became one of the wealthiest (...)
Peter Zumthor's LACMA gets approval by LA Board of Supervisors
WA Contents • Apr 10, 2019 • 16448
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor's Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has unanimously been approved by the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, following the approval of the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR).
Zumthor released the revised version of plans last month and the new plans were including the reduce of buildings sizes and footprint. The plans are reduced from 36,500 square meters to 32,500 square meters, while the building's hight is shortened from 26 meter to 18.2 meter.
The new building will be a major milestone in LACMA’s effort to replace four aging structures with the new Peter Zumthor-designed building.
By the time Zumthor's new building opens and joins the Bruce Goff-designed Pavilion (...)
