In collaboration with the architecture firm UMWELT and landscape architects LANDMRX, we were selected as the winning team in an anonymous competition organized by EFE, the national train company of Chile. The competition brief asked to transform an icon of modern architecture – the brutalist former postal sorting office (1974) designed by the Chilean architect … Continue reading UMWELT, PRODUCTORA and LANDMRX win 1st prize in adaptive reuse competition in Santiago de Chile (+)

The 32,000-square-foot building serves as the first purpose-built headquarters for the Houston Endowment, one of the largest private foundations in Texas. Relocating from the city’s business district, the new building allows the philanthropic organization to be more a welcoming base from which to work and connect with people from public, private, non-profit sectors together. The … Continue reading New Headquarters of Houston Endowment (+)

La Laguna is a former textile and yarn factory built in the 1920s in Mexico City’s Doctores neighborhood. The design involves the deteriorated factory’s recovery and enhancement into the vibrant complex that currently houses more than 25 motley creative and productive firms (including carpentry and textile workshops, coffee brewers, and ceramics studios, among others). Although … Continue reading Laguna (+)

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2022, now in its fourth cycle, celebrates the best-built works completed in the Americas between January 2018 and December 2021. The winner will be announced in April 2023. The jury found commonality in the typologies and focus among these built works- more specifically, meaningfully connecting to the surrounding communities … Continue reading Rooftop Prim included as one of the 38 outstanding projects, selected by MCHAP 2022 Jury (+)

The committee headed by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, professor at ETH Zurich, and composed of Sarah Whiting (Harvard University, GSD), Rahul Mehrotra (Harvard University), Ding Wowo (University of Nanjing), Lesley Lokko (City College, New York) and Luis Fernández-Galiano (University of Madrid) selected PRODUCTORA among the 50 best architectural firms 2020. Domus, Italy (+)

Three of our projects were awarded by the A’N Best of Design Award 2020. Bautista House, a Caribbean holiday retreat, has won first place in the Single-Unit Residential Category. While our project Rooftop Prim: a lightweight polycarbonate structure on top of an existing historic building in downtown Mexico City, received first place in the Renovation Category. The third … Continue reading A’N Best of Design Awards (+)

The Berlage Keynotes: “The Easy Solution is Hard to Find” by Wonne Ickx. The Berlage Keynotes is an ongoing lecture series featuring internationally prominent architects, designers, and thinkers at the forefront of design discourse and innovation. Organized and hosted by the Berlage, the series is part of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment’s … Continue reading The Berlage Keynotes (+)

Manuel Dublán is an apartment building with commercial space on the ground floor, inserted within and above an early 20th-century patio house. The plan layout of the original house, its central staircase, high ceilings, and the original blue details in columns and decorative friezes were used as a starting point for the adaptive reuse project. … Continue reading Dublán REURBANO (+)

The project is located on the rooftop of an early twentieth-century palace in the center of Mexico City, where cultural and festive events are held. To prevent canceling events due to occasional rainfall, the property owner asked PRODUCTORA to cover the three existing courtyards. Instead of making three independent interventions, we generated one single proposal: … Continue reading Rooftop Prim (+)

The Columbus Table is a side table produced for the Brussels design gallery MANIERA. The first edition was produced in 2018 in a limited edition, and in 2020 two new colors and sizes were added in an unlimited edition. The design consists of a 6mm thick aluminum plate that is cut, bent twice, and powder … Continue reading Columbus Table (+)

October 22, 2020 | Buenos Aires, Argentina. Abel Perles in the Cycle of Conversations: Architecture in Latin America /1. Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism (FADU) of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). November 9, 2020 | Quito, Ecuador. Abel Perles and Carlos Bedoya at the Panamerican Biennial of Architecture of Quito 2020. Conversation: Teopanzolco … Continue reading Upcoming conferences 2020/2021 (+)

Wonne Ickx lectures at Princeton University School of Architecture. The lecture entitled “PRODUCTORA so far” takes place on Thursday, February 11, 2021 – 5 pm (Mexico City Time) (+)

This small studio in the garden of a historic residence in Pasadena, California, houses the library of architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne. Upon leaving his full-time position at the LA-times in 2018, he brought back his book collection to his house in Pasadena and asked us to re-think a small structure behind the carport in his … Continue reading Hawthorne Studio (+)

The American Institute of Architects of New York awarded our project Rooftop Prim with an Architecture Honor Prize in Cultural Category in its annual event: 2021 AIANY Design Awards, announced on January 11, 2021. Our project Houston Endowment Headquarters (in association with Kevin Daly Architects) received the Merit Award by the American Institute of Architects … Continue reading AIA Design Awards: Los Angeles and New York (+)

PRODUCTORA’s team is one of the winners of the competition Al Nouri Mosque Complex (4th place of 123 competing entries). A competition organized by UNESCO is part of a larger effort aiming to restore the urban, social and cultural fabric of the Old City of Mosul following its tragic destruction at the hands of ISIS … Continue reading Winner of the 4th Place at Al Nouri Mosque Complex competition (+)

PRODUCTORA participates in the exhibition “Re-Sources“ at Storefront for Art and Architecture in NYC.Drawing upon its material and social resources, the exhibition invites 26 architects and designers who have worked with Storefront in its recent history to create new works with leftover and surplus items from its office, gallery, and storage spaces. PRODUCTORA produces a … Continue reading Exhibition “Re-Sources” at Storefront, NY (+)

As result of the research PRODUCTORA initiated after winning the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Practice at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Being the Mountain examines the relationship between architecture and the land it occupies, an obvious interaction – a building must touch the ground – that it often remains unexplored. The richly … Continue reading Being the Mountain (+)

The 32,000-square-foot building serves as the first purpose-built headquarters for the Houston Endowment, one of the largest private foundations in Texas. Relocating from the city’s business district, the new building allows the philanthropic organization to be more a welcoming base from which to work and connect with people from public, private, non-profit sectors together. The … Continue reading New Headquarters of Houston Endowment (+)

The project, located in the Hogares Castera housing unit in the Municipality of Tultitlán, is part of an initiative by INFONAVIT  (Mexico’s Housing Authority) and the CIDS (Research Center for Sustainable Development) to improve the public spaces of large housing developments in the outskirts of Mexico City. The project consists of a 15m wide by … Continue reading Urban Park in Tultitlan (+)

This experimental prototype is part of a housing laboratory promoted by INFONAVIT  (Mexico’s Housing Authority) to develop innovative regional housing that could partly be self-built. The complex consists of 32 houses by Mexican and international architects within a master plan designed by MOS Architects. The proposal designed by PRODUCTORA adheres strictly to the budgetary restrictions … Continue reading Housing prototype in Apan (+)

One year after its inauguration, the Teotitlán del Valle Community Cultural Center received the Gold Medal at the 1st Biennial of Architecture in Oaxaca, participating in the Culture category. The center is currently headed by Abigaíl Mendoza and a committee entirely conformed by Zapotec women, who do a wonderful job for the entire indigenous community … Continue reading Golden Medal at the 1st Biennial of Architecture in Oaxaca (+)

The project, located at the El Tenayo Housing Unit area in the Municipality of Tlalnepantla de Baz, is part of an initiative by INFONAVIT  (Mexico’s Housing Authority) and the CIDS (Research Center for Sustainable Development) to improve the public spaces of large housing developments in the outskirts of Mexico City. The proposal consists of the … Continue reading Urban Park in Tlalnepantla (+)

The Houston Endowment and competition organizers Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC) announced that the team led by Kevin Daly Architects (KDA) with Mexico City-based PRODUCTORA, in collaboration with TLS Landscape Architecture, has won the international competition to design the new Houston Endowment Headquarters.  The winning design concept is praised as a dynamic response to Houston’s architectural … Continue reading Kevin Daly Architects and PRODUCTORA win the Houston Endowment Headquarters International Competition (+)

The piece “Two Tower Model” (2017) from PRODUCTORA, was recently added to the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago through its Department of Architecture and Design. This miniature model inserted into the ‘California Hallway’ of the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, was one of two architectural scale models presented by PRODUCTORA … Continue reading The Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago (+)

This biennial competition presented by Fundació Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona, is characterized by an approach based on the perspective of the inhabitant, by adopting the format video as the essential means by which to explain the work and by an inclusive participation process.  The Teopanzolco Cultural Center is the winning project of the Collective Places … Continue reading Teopanzolco Cultural Center wins Simon Architecture Prize 2018 – Living Places (+)

PRODUCTORA’s participation in the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017, forms part of the Chicago Tribune Tower project in which 16 young architects from around the world were asked to design a skyscraper that will be displayed as a series of 16-foot-tall architectural models in the Chicago Cultural Center. These scale models of towers arranged in a … Continue reading Two Towers – Chicago Architectural Biennial 2017 (+)

PRODUCTORA was asked by the Jumex Museum and curator Kit Hammonds to design this first major retrospective of John Baldessari in Latin America. The exhibition draws on the artist’s practice of addressing pedagogic themes that appear in his work from the 1960s to the present. The dichotomy between learning and unlearning in Baldessari’s own playful … Continue reading Learning to read with John Baldessari (+)

PRODUCTORA, as MCHAP.emerge 2016 winner for the project Pavilion on the Zocalo, presents a round table discussion and exhibition opening along with The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize / IIT College of Architecture Americas. The exhibition and symposium ‘On topography’ by Mexican firm PRODUCTORA examines the relationship between buildings and the ground they occupy. Using this particular … Continue reading On Topography – Symposium & Exhibition Opening (+)

Teotitlan del Valle Community Cultural Center in Oaxaca won 3 PRIZES of OBRAS CEMEX 2017: 1st Place Collective Space (National), 2nd Place Collective Space (International) and Special Prize for Sustainable Building. Winners of Obras CEMEX 2017 (+)