PRODUCTORA´s work is distinguished by an interest in precise geometries, legible projects with limited gestures, and a search for the material and spatial solutions that make timeless buildings.
PRODUCTORA is an architecture studio founded in 2006 in Mexico City by Abel Perles (1972, Argentina), Carlos Bedoya (1973, Mexico), Victor Jaime (1978, Mexico) and Wonne Ickx (1974, Belgium). In 2024 Natalia Badía (1992, Mexico City) joined the team as an associate, and Abel Perles left the firm.
The firm has received the Young Architects Forum (2007) and the Emerging Voices (2013) from the Architectural League of New York and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for emerging architects (2016). Their first larger cultural-infrastructure project, the Teopanzolco Cultural Center, received amongst other recognitions, the American Architecture Prize in Cultural Architecture (2017), the Oscar Niemeyer Award for Latin American Architecture (2018), the First International Prize at the Biennial of Architecture of Quito (2018), the Simon Architecture Prize - Living Places (2018), and a Special Mention at the Rogelio Salmona Latin American Architecture Award (2024).
PRODUCTORA has a strong interest in working within historical contexts or existing buildings. Their office in Mexico City is located at Laguna, a former textile factory that is slowly been transformed by the firm over many years. Laguna received the Pan American Award at the Biennial of Quito (2024) and was recognized by the Architectural Review - New into Old Awards (2023). Another re-use project, Rooftop Prim, a lightweight intervention within a historic building in downtown Mexico City received an AIA-New York Design Award (2021).
Since 2015, they have been established in the US as well and realized residential projects in Los Angeles, Denver, St. Louis, and New York. In 2022, the studio finalized The Houston Endowment Headquarters in Houston, Texas in collaboration with Kevin Daly Architects. This major commission, obtained through an international competition, is a net-zero office building and the first hybrid structure of steel with cross-laminated timber in the state of Texas.
Among the many publications of the office, their first monograph by Arquine (2010), the dedicated issue of magazine 2G (No. 69 / 2014), and a book with Roma Publications (2023) stand out. In 2020, PRODUCTORA published ‘Being The Mountain’ (Actar—IIT, 2020), a book that explores the relationship between modern architecture and topography.
PRODUCTORA has been actively involved in academic work, both in local institutions, such as the Universidad Iberoamericana, Centro de Diseño, TEC de Monterrey, and Universidad La Salle in Mexico City, as well as abroad. The partners of PRODUCTORA have been teaching studios at UCLA (Los Angeles), IIT (Chicago), Harvard GSD (Cambridge), Princeton University (NJ), Bard College (NY), UC Berkeley (San Francisco), Cornell (NY), and Columbia GSAPP (NY).
In 2011, PRODUCTORA founded, alongside curator Ruth Estevez, LIGA - Space for Architecture - Mexico City: an independent not-for-profit initiative that promotes emergent Latin-American architecture through exhibitions, conferences, publications, and workshops. / www.liga-df.com
Carlos Bedoya
Founding Partner (Mexico City, 1973)
Carlos Bedoya is an architect who graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana and holds a Master's degree in Architectural Design and Theory from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona. With a distinguished career in offices both in Mexico and Barcelona, he specializes in the development, design, and coordination of architectural projects from concept to building. Among the most representative projects he has led are the Community Cultural Center in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, the Cultural Center in Teopanzolco, Morelos, and Laguna, an Adaptive Reuse project. Carlos Bedoya has a strong commitment to academia, accumulating more than 15 years of collaboration with institutions such as Tec de Monterrey, the Universidad Iberoamericana, the IIT in Chicago, Bard College in New York, and the ETSAM in Madrid, among others.
Victor Jaime
Founding Partner (Mexico City, 1978)
Victor Jaime studied Architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana and from a very young age, he collaborated in various important offices in Mexico City until he founded PRODUCTORA with his partners in 2006. He has led a wide variety of projects and programs, with a particular focus on hospitality and high-standard residential projects, such as Casa Bautista in the Caribbean (Best Retreat, Wallpaper 2020). Together with Natalia Badia, a PRODUCTORA associate, he has participated in alternative hospitality projects in Namibia, Saudi Arabia, Costa Rica, and Mexico, and led hotel projects in San Miguel de Allende and Oaxaca, among others. He has taught workshops and conferences in Mexico and abroad and, together with his partners, founded LIGA-Space for Architecture in 2011.
Wonne Ickx
Founding Partner (Antwerp, Belgium, 1974)
Architect and Civil Engineer from the University of Ghent, Belgium, with a Master's degree in Urban Studies from the University of Guadalajara. He currently resides in New York, leading the firm's international projects. These include a net-zero building for the Houston Endowment offices in Texas, Co-Housing in Denver, Adaptive Reuse in Santiago, Chile, and residential projects in Los Angeles, St. Louis, and New York. In academia, he has over 20 years of experience working with institutions such as Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Berkeley, Rice, UCLA, and IIT, among others.
Natala Badia
Associate (Mexico City, 1992)
An architect from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Natalia has specialized in various fields internationally, including Interior Architecture from Parsons School of Design, New York, and participation in workshops at Aedes Architekturforum in Berlin, Germany. After five years at PRODUCTORA, Natalia became the firm's first Associate, establishing herself as a key figure focused primarily on the design and supervision of hospitality projects. Her work ranges from conceptualization to executive management of global projects, including hotels in Namibia, Saudi Arabia, and the coast of Mexico, as well as participation in refurbishment projects in New York.
Collaborators
CURRENTLY:
Lorelei Arenas (Office Manager), Natalia Badia, Jaqueline Lobato, Daniel Domínguez, Fernanda Chacón, Pablo García, Lucila Simon and Lucas Saldivar.
PREVIOUSLY:
Osmar Montalvo, Travis Hope, Gustavo Hernandéz, Fidel Fernández, Sofia Valdovinos, and Anna García, Carla Romano, Daniela Farfán, Erik Castañeda, Elisabeth Ableidinger, Alejandro Barrera, Pablo Manjarrez, Valentina Sánchez, Mara Calderón de la Barca, Luis Mendoza, Rubén Flores, Diego Velázquez, Omar Ocampo, Alejandro Alegría, Constanza Candia, Marta del Olmo, Arturo Mata, Yael Saadia, Nicolas Fueyo, Ruy Berumen, Patricia Gutierrez, Lucrecia Sodo, Ana Reed, Frida Mouchlian, Karin Schott, Diana Jiménez, Diana Monrroy, Andrés Millán, Christine Rohrbacher, Sara Morales, Claudio Morales, Alejandro Ordoñez, Alexandre Makhoul, Isabel Fitzpatrick-Meyers, Georgette Guzmán, Angelique Firmalino, Marco Cobos, Alessandro Scarfiello, Catalina Lombardo, Antonio Zarco, Tessa Watson, Emiliano Rode, Kelsey Cohen, Diana Franco, Spencer Fried, Peter Boldt, Daniela Díaz, Alejandra Osorio, Juan Benavides, Natalia Echeverri, Manuella Leboreiro, Diogo Pereira da Silva, Alonso Sánchez, Mariana Toro, Angela Cho, Santiago Sánchez, Josué Palma, Gerardo Aguilar, Oswaldo Delgadillo,Juan Pablo Pérez, Laura Stoll, Margherita Vegro, Jesús Minor, Eustacio García, Juan Luis Rivera, Antonio Espinoza, Pamela Martínez, Rosalía Yuste, Gerardo Galicia, Cecilia Ceballos, Daniela Dusa, Iván Villegas, Jorge Fernández, Paul Christian, Hong Bae Yang, Andrés Rivadeneyra, Alejandra de la Mora, Mariana Valdez, Guillermina Ceci, Uriel Piña, Abraham Berumen, Marissa Nava, Diego Escamilla, Octavio Juarez, Laura Rodríguez, Sacnicté Ortíz, Andres Rozada, Félix Guillén Hau, Amaury Senties, Rocío Carvajo, Jorge Zuart, Luis Gómez, David Ortega, Fernando Sánchez, Jorge Cárdenas, Eduardo Ahumado, Samuel Sandoval, Yuri Rodriguez , Valeria Marini, Paulina Santoyo, Thorsten Englert, Ross Adams, Alberto Odériz, Marek Prikryl, Segismundo Engelking, Luis Martínez, Lena Rasmussen, Arais Reyes, Alejandra Canedo, Roger Desdier, Eduardo Palomino, Alfonso Edén Gutiérrez, Karel Vancura, Diana Léon, Per Carlsen, Arturo Alvarez, Mariana Ruíz, Oscar Trejo, Begoña Prada, Ximena Maza and Rebeca Laham.