2020 AD100 Debut: Tatiana Bilbao Estudio

Every project by Mexico City–based architecture firm Tatiana Bilbao Estudio begins with a collage of historical, topographical, and aspirational images. “Context defines my work,” declares principal Tatiana Bilbao, “not only the physical landscape but social, cultural, and political as well.” With an oeuvre that ranges from private villas to a botanical garden to social housing, her work is always locale-driven and designed with beauty in mind. In 2019, Bilbao’s fascinating approach was celebrated in an exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark (on view until April 5), and resulted in a new mixed-use building for the University of Monterrey in her native Mexico as well as her first furniture collection with Copenhagen gallery Etage Projects and Mexico City’s AGO Projects. Up next, the architect, who was declared “on a trajectory to greatness” as 2019’s Marcus Prize winner, will complete a contemporary-art museum in Arévalo, Spain, and an aquarium in Mazatlán, Mexico. ► Mexico City; tatianabilbao.com

Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest