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2014 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture Prize; 2012 Berliner Kunstpreis, Akademie der Kunste; 2011 Young Architect, Colegio de Arquitectos CAM-SAM; 2010 Built Work of the Year, CEMEX; 2009 Emerging Voices, Architecture League of New York
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Tatiana Bilbao Spamer (Mexico City, 1972) is a Mexican architect. Through a multicultural and multidisciplinary office, the work of Tatiana Bilba Estudio tries to understand the place that surrounds us in order to translate its rigid codes into architecture. It tries to regenerate spaces in order to humanize them as a reaction to global capitalism, opening up niches for cultural and economic development.
Tatiana Bilbao was born in 1972 in Mexico City in a family of architects. She studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana and graduated in 1996. She obtained her Bachelor of Architecture and Urbanism degree in 1998 with honorable mention and was awarded the best architecture thesis of the year. She worked as an advisor for Urban Projects at the Urban Housing and Development Department of Mexico City in 1998-99, and in 2004 founded Tatiana Bilbao Estudio with projects in China, Europe and Mexico.
In 1998, she worked as advisor of the Secretaría de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda del Gobierno del Distrito Federal, government agency that oversees urban development and housing in Mexico City.
In 2004, she founded Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, working in projects in China, Europe and Mexico. The first project built by her studio was the exhibition pavilion in Jinhua Architecture Park, led and coordinated by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who selected a group of young architects from around the world to design and develop a large park organized by a network of pavilions and located in the shore of the Yiwu River, close to Shanghai. Bilbao designed an exhibition pavilion that was completed in 2007.
Her diverse work includes the Botanical Garden in Culiacán, a master plan and open chapel for a Pilgrimage Route in Jalisco, a Biotechnological Center for a Tech Institution, a sustainable housing prototype that is built with 8,000 USD, and a funeral home.
Tatiana was the recipient of the Kunstpries Berlin in 2012, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture Prize in 2014 and named as Emerging Voice by the Architecture League of NY in 2009. Her work is part of the collection of the Centre d'Art George Pompidou in Paris, France, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been visiting professor at Yale School of Architecture and Rice School of Architecture. Her work has been published in A+U, GA Houses, Domus, and The New York Times, among others.
Selected Projects
Mixed use building for the University of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, 77,000 sqm, ongoing, 2016.
Menil Collection Drawing Institute, Houston, EU, 1’600 sqm, invited competition, finalist (in collaboration with ARUP), 2012
Master Plan in EnSully, Lake Geneva, Switzerland, 20 apartments, Master Plan by Christ&Gantenbein, First Prize 2010
Commemoration Park, Puebla, Mexico, 6’400 sqm, invited competition, 2011
Guadalajara Performing Arts Center, in collaboration with AT103, Guadalajara, Mexico, 6’500 sqm, invited competition, 2010
Lecumberri, restoration of Mexico City National Archive Museum, 4’500 sqm, invited competition, 2010
20 Houses in EnSully, Geneve, Switzerland, master plan for Christ & Gantenbein, first prize, 2010
Metropolitan Park Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, Second place, honorable mention, 2009
Arco del Bicentenario, Ciudad de México, invited competition, 2009
Bodegas del Tamayo, Atizapán, Estado de México, invited competition, 2009
Perm Museum, Perm, Russia, competition en two phases, selected to second round, 2008
River Walk Rhin, Basel, Switzerland, invited competition with HHF, 2007
Research and others
Exhibition space and scenography for Los Derechos de la Danza: Alexander Calder, Museo Jumex, Ciudad de México, March–June 2015.
La Planta, exhibition space and scenography for Exhibition ‘Yäg’, 2007-2008
Scenography for Exhibition Mexico-Expected/Unexpected at Masion Rouge, Paris, France, October 2008-January 2009
Scenography for Exhibition Las implicaciones de la imagen at Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, October 2009
Participation in Stonemasonry in Context, workshop conducted by MIT, Cambridge and ESTAM, B. Mallorca, Summer 2009
Selected individual exhibition
Under-Construction, Exhibition at Archtektur Galerie in Berlin, Germany, September - October, 2013
Tatiana Bilbao Monographic Exhibition at Salle 27, Permanent Collection, Centre Georges Pompidou, October 2011-March 2012
Concrete, steel, aluminum, brick and paint: The architecture of Tatiana Bilbao 2004-2010, Instituto Cultural de México in San Antonio, Texas, April–June 2010
70 bultos de cemento, 32 litros de pintura 2.7 ton de cantera, fourth intervention in the courtyard of Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, February–May 2010
Selected collective exhibition
Sharing Models: Manhattanisms!, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA, June 2016
The State of the Art of Architecture, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Sustainable Housing Full Scale Model, October 2015 – January 2016.
Your Rest, piece for the exhibition Rest, Biennale de Gwanji, September–November 2009
Vivir adentro, collective Project in the Mexican Pavilion, Biennale de Venezia, September–November 2008
Production of Space, proposal for the exhibition Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries, as part of Museum as a hub, in New Museum en Nueva York, EUA organized by Museo Rufino Tamayo, February–April 2008.
Selected books
Arquitectura en México, 1900-2010, Roca Blanca, Jardín Botánico, Capilla de la Gratitud, México, INBA/CONACULTA, Fundación Aeroméxico, Fomento Cultural Banamex, 2014.