Francisco Gonzalez Pulido, Founder and Principal of FGP Atelier, lists architect, urban designer, educator, and author among his titles. Science guides his work in a unique way by unifying research and development, architecture and design, engineering, and advanced technology. Gonzalez Pulido approaches each project by analyzing the problem and searching for its essence before arriving at a solution, sketching out the form it will take as well as how it will integrate lightness, sustainability, transparency, dialogue, and support of culture and community. Since founding FGP Atelier in 2017, Gonzalez Pulido has led the design of new projects ranging in scale from a bespoke celebrity hair salon in Los Angeles to an arena for the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians in Traverse City, Michigan, a culinary institute in Puebla, Mexico, the transformation of a 17th century home in Oaxaca, Mexico into an art gallery, and mixed-use towers in Guadalajara, Mexico and Pittsburgh, USA. But the crown jewel may very well be his latest project ? Estadio Diablos is Mexico City?s largest and most valuable baseball stadium. In this week’s Friday Five, Gonzalez Pulido shares a few of his favorites with us.
1. Guitars

I have a very intimate relationship with each one of these 22, I have never felt that I own them and I like that feeling. They are free. Sometimes I just go to my guitar studio to be in their company. It is like being with a really talented bunch of charac...