Ilse Cárdenas, Regina De Hoyos, Diego Escamilla & Juan Luis Rivera. PALMA

Palma is an architectural studio founded in 2016, with offices in Mexico City and Sayulita, and with offices in Europe thanks to its digital multi-location approach. Through a design process open to experimentation and exploration, Palma operates fluidly across diverse scales and typologies: from pavilions to urban infrastructure, including residential architecture and ephemeral installations.

Led by Ilse Cárdenas, Regina de Hoyos, and Diego Escamilla, Palma was recently honored in Vienna with the Brick Award 2024 in the Out of the Box category. The firm has received other accolades, including the COAM Emergente Award, given by the Official College of Architects of Madrid to architects under 35, and the League Prize from The Architectural League of New York, which since 1981 has celebrated the exemplary and provocative work of young practitioners in North America. Considered by Wallpaper* as one of the 20 most relevant emerging practices in the world, Palma was also named one of the "Best New Practices" by ArchDaily, one of the world's leading architecture platforms. Additionally, they were selected by The University of Virginia School of Architecture as the Michael Owen Jones Memorial Lecturer.

Palma's work has been published in national and international media. They have been invited to give workshops and lectures at various venues in Mexico, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China, and at the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Madrid.

Ilse Cárdenas, an architect from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, completed an exchange program at the Technical University of Lisbon in Portugal. In 2020, she was awarded a Young Creators Program scholarship by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) for her project "Exclusivo | Excluyente, el lujo del encierro." She recently completed a master's degree in Political Architecture Critical Sustainability at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Recipient of the 2021 CONACYT-FONCA scholarships to study abroad and the Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation Scholarship.

Regina de Hoyos, an architect from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, completed an exchange program at the Polytechnic of Turin.

Diego Escamilla, an architect from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, completed an exchange program at the Technical University of Lisbon in Portugal. In 2019, he was awarded a Young Creators Program scholarship from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) for his project "Awakening the Void, Pneumatic Breaths After the Earthquake." He recently completed the MPAA Master's Degree in Advanced Architectural Projects at the ETSAM School of Architecture in Madrid. Recipient of the 2020 CONACYT-FONCA scholarship to study abroad. He currently serves as a tutor in the architecture discipline of the PECDA 2023 program.