Tatiana Bilbao

Tatiana Bilbao Spamer
Tatiana Bilbao Portrait
Born1972 (age 51–52)
Mexico City, Mexico
EducationUniversidad Iberoamericana
Awards
  • 2009 Architectural League Emerging Voices
  • 2010 Built Work of the Year, CEMEX
  • 2011 Young Architect, Colegio de Arquitectos CAM-SAM
  • 2012 Berliner Kunstpreis, Akademie der Künste
  • 2014 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture Prize
  • 2017 A+Awards Impact Award
  • 2019 Marcus Prize

Tatiana Bilbao Spamer (born 1972) is a Mexican architect whose works often merged geometry with nature. Her practice focuses on sustainable design and social housing.

She founded Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO in 2004 and has completed projects in China,[1] France, the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, among others. Representative projects include the Botanical Garden of Culiacán, Sinaloa,[2][3] the exhibition hall of a park located in Jinhua, China and a prototype of sustainable social housing of 62 m2 (670 sq ft) with the capacity to duplicate with a cost of 120 thousand Mexican pesos, that was presented at the Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015,[4] and originally screened in Chiapas, Mexico.[5][6]

Bilbao's work has been recognized with the Berliner Kunstpreis in 2012, the 2010 Architectural League Emerging Voices, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture by the LOCUS Foundation in 2014, and the Impact Award 2017 to the Architizer A+Awards Honorees, along with the 2020 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal and the 2019 Marcus Prize Award.[7][8]

  1. ^ "Tatiana Bilbao, la mexicana que hace de la arquitectura un refugio". Excélsior. March 1, 2019.
  2. ^ "Tatiana Bilbao: Mexican architect who has earned a place in international architecture". Infoobras.com.mx. Archived from the original on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Tatiana Bilbao: por una arquitectura humana". July 20, 2018.
  4. ^ "Tatiana Bilbao "urgent" housing Mexico's poorest inhabitants". Dezeen. 2015-10-06. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  5. ^ Forbes Staff (January 13, 2016). "Tatiana Bilbao: la arquitectura puede cambiar la vida de la gente • Forbes México". Forbes México.
  6. ^ León, Ana (July 23, 2018). "El humanismo y creaciones de Tatiana Bilbao expuestas".
  7. ^ "Tatiana Bilbao Wins the Marcus Prize 2019". ArchDaily. 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  8. ^ "Tatiana Bilbao Receives Marcus Prize". www.architectmagazine.com. Archived from the original on 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2019-11-05.