Architecture after Extraction: Nada Muere en Mexico Part 2 Dissertation 2023 Antonio VelascoValeria Bardi Cohen Pratt Institute | USA Just as El Dia de Los Muertos honors the cycle of life and death, our project seeks to create a meaningful connection between the end of an industrial era and the beginning of a new purposeful life for obsolete industrial pieces. By disassembling oil rigs and using their components to create a post-extraction vernacular, we propose a new urban typology that aims to bridge the gap between the industrial and the human scale, between infrastructural and public space, and that is characterized by the negotiation of industrial structure operated at the human scale. An urbanism that begins by decommissioning the infrastructure of extraction and economic exploitation will begin to return resources and economic potential to Ciudad del Carmen in Mexico, and other petrotowns. Antonio VelascoValeria Bardi Cohen Tutor(s) Saul Anton Adam Elstein Frank Gesualdi