Cross-border architectural design for kitchens is not a workaround — it is a structured process. In MÉTODO we design residential projects from CDMX for clients in Denver, Colorado, and across the US Southwest. The kitchen is one of the most documentation-intensive rooms in a hous
Cross-border architectural design for kitchens is not a workaround — it is a structured process. In MÉTODO we design residential projects from CDMX for clients in Denver, Colorado, and across the US Southwest. The kitchen is one of the most documentation-intensive rooms in a hous
Designing an author kitchen — a casa de autor kitchen — across the Mexico-United States border means managing one design intent through two regulatory environments, two contractor cultures, two sets of material supply chains, and two different physical climates. At MÉTODO, we hav
The cost of an authored kitchen in Mexico is not a single number. It is the result of a set of decisions — some made in the design phase, most made in the material specification phase — and understanding which decisions drive cost is more useful than any benchmark figure. In MÉTO
La matriz de opciones: decidir comparando, no adivinando. That phrase describes the most important tool in MÉTODO's kitchen design process. The matrix of options is not a mood board or a product catalog — it is a structured comparison that allows a client to make a design decisio
Restraint in a kitchen is not absence. It is precision. A kitchen with four materials and no decoration can be as heavy and cluttered as a kitchen with ten materials and ornament — if those four materials were not chosen in relationship to each other, to the space, and to how the
The process before the style. That sentence is not an aesthetic position — it is a design methodology that produces kitchens that do not require renovation every ten years because they were built to respond to a trend rather than a site.
La sección como relato — the section as the narrative of a space. In kitchen design, the section drawing is the most important drawing in the set. It shows what the plan cannot: how the ceiling height relates to the countertop, whether the window sill is at the right height for t
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