Facing the way in which architecture in México has been narrated from the colonial and the modern side of history, multiple and diverse stories are erected, in universes distant from the center.
This series by Arroyo Robles is an effort to document, in a photographic typology, the Troje, a manifestation of vernacular architecture that has not been positioned on the stage of said dominant narrative. In contrast to current construction systems, where the materials and the forms to which they give rise are the product of global strategies of homogenization, the vernacular methods build structures that have been conceived and materialized for specific contexts.
When talking about the Troje, illustrating the story with images of its different and varied current locations, Arroyo Robles confronts the historical task in architecture, where related systems have been displaced in front of the patrimony of centralized location; while criticizes the way social housing public policies try to establish molds about the way of living, ignoring the particularities of the various contexts that cross his country, México.