a+u 2024:02 - 641 -Tatiana Bilbao Estudio Platforms for Life

Content

a+u’s February issue presents architectural works by the Mexican firm Tatiana Bilbao Estudio – projects that are representative of values developed over nearly 20 years of practice. Founded in 2004 by the architect Tatiana Bilbao, the eponymic studio prioritizes the communities for whom they build and seeks to understand the socio-environmental frameworks in which they build, while also playing with scale, geometry, and materiality. The firm’s portfolio ranges from large-scale projects of master planning and building design, such as Culiacán Botanical Garden and Estoa – University of Monterrey, to investigations of form through residential projects like Casa Ajijic, as well as precise interventions that serve an existing community, as seen in the disaster reconstruction projects of Reconstruir Mx. Tatiana Bilbao departs from typical systems of representations used in architecture through collage, a technique that perhaps best demonstrates the layered contexts that architects must reconcile to create meaningful design. A selection of key exhibitions captures the breadth of the studio’s research of private and public space. This issue of a+u thus invites the reader to an architectural chorography of Mexico through the design ideologies espoused by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio. (a+u)

Essay:
Mexico: Ciudad que es un País – A City that Is a Country
Tatiana Bilbao

Hypotheses on Public and Private Space

Essay:
The Architecture Is Present
Raymund Ryan

Culiacán Botanical Garden

Casa Ajijic

Casa Ventura

Casa Valhalla

Los Terrenoes

Sea of Cortez Research Center

Estoa – University of Monterrey (UDEM)

Lyon La Confluence

Essay:
Repository of Ideas
Karolina Czeczek

Olive West

Acuña Housing and Public Space

Reconstruir Mx

Pilgrim’s Route

Conversation:
Kloster Maria Friedenshort
Father Kilian, Tatiana Bilbao, Anna Puigjaner,
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Martino Tattara, Guillermo López, Dylan Impink