As director of New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Mexican architect has instituted a series of yearlong research cycles that generate programming. Swamplands, which took the meeting of land and the seas as its inspiration, ended in 2025’s first quarter with an exhibition of Jingru Cyan Cheng and Chen Zhan (who studied Thailand’s Vajiralongkorn Reservoir and the relationship between energy infrastructure and Indigenous lands). In September a new cycle was initiated under the equally politically prescient banner Homelands (‘a very contested term, which is why we’re looking at it’, Esparza Chong Cuy told Pin-Up). As Swamplands started with a ‘Swamp Summit’ in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, Homelands saw its 16 months of programming kick off in Goias, Brazil, at Dalton Paula’s Sertão Negro school and atelier, which itself made the reverse journey for a September exhibition in Lower Manhattan. Joining Paula next year in these ruminations of what a home might be will be the Singaporean artist Sim Chi Yin, and the Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj. Denilson Baniwa meanwhile took Storefront’s annual mural commission.