Tatiana Bilbao believes that what she does is shaped by the understanding and the relationship that is created with her surroundings and her environment.
Tatiana Bilbao was born in 1972 in Mexico-City. She studied architecture and urbanism at Universidad Iberoamerica, where she was recipient of the honorable mention for her thesis in 1998. The Tatiana Bilbao Estudio focuses on the guiding principle “making places and spaces, by people, for people”.
The practice maintains the ethos of labor-intensive, handmade buildings, providing much-needed jobs in Mexico by trying not to replace people with machines—and ultimately giving the final result a raw energy.
Tatiana Bilbao has held several visiting scholar positions as for example at Luis Kahn Visiting Professorship, Yale School of Architecture in 2015. Tatiana Bilbao Estudio was the featured architecture firm in the Architect’s Studio series of exhibitions hosted by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
The studio has had work featured in the Graham Foundation, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Venice Biennale and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey to name a few.
"Since we can’t host events, but have a commitment with you, we came up with a new idea that is meant to lift your spirits and provide you with some genuine inspiration – at your home. This way we could contribute something positive to this extraordinary situation."
About Architects not Architecture
Founded in Hamburg in 2015, Architects, not Architecture. aims to bring to the stage what usually goes unseen. For each event they invite three well-known architects, who instead of talking about their award-winning international projects, are asked to talk about themselves. They speak about their path, their influences and experiences, and dive deeper into their intellectual biography. This enables a better understanding of their work, without them even mentioning it.
Most of us find it difficult to speak about the relevant experiences and the impact they had on us. But isn’t it the encounters, the unique experiences, the harsh times, the wild years at university, that one friend, teacher or family member that shaped our values and thus the person we are today? And isn’t it these values that influence how and what we create?
At least this is what Architects, not Architecture. (AnA) believes, which is why they created the event format that has expanded to multiple European cities over the past five years. Each architect is asked to talk about themselves and their individual path without mentioning their work. It is admittedly hard to do so in front of hundreds of unfamiliar faces when you are only used to talking about architecture in such a setting.
We are used to seeing talks about their work, now we will have the opportunity to get to know their architecture from a very different and personal perspective.
