Tatiana Bilbao

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Bilbao started her very successful career following her graduation from the Universidad Iberoamericana with a degree in Architecture and Urbanism. One of her first jobs was advisor for Urban Projects at the Urban Housing and Development Department of Mexico City in 1998. Bilbao co-founded the architecture firm LCM in 1999 and founded MX.DF, an urban research center, in 2004.

Some of her most distinguished work includes the chapel Tierra Colorada in Jalisco, Mexico, “Exhibit Space” a project coordinated by Chinese artist and architect ai Wei Wei, and the Culiacan Botanical Gardens in Mexico. She was the 2012 recipient of the Kunstpries Berlin, the 2014 recipient of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, and was named an Emerging Voice by the Architecture League of New York in 2010, among many other awards. She has been a visiting Professor at Yale School of Architecture, a Professor of Design at the Universidad Iberoamericana, and a visiting Professor at the Universidad Andres Bello in Chile.