22 Facts About Tatiana Bilbao

Tatiana Bilbao Spamer was born on 1972 and is a Mexican architect whose works often merged geometry with nature.

Tatiana Bilbao's practice focuses on sustainable design, museum design and social housing.

Tatiana Bilbao founded Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO in 2004 and has completed projects in China, France, the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, among others.

Tatiana Bilbao was born in Mexico City into a family of architects.

Tatiana Bilbao's grandfather was Tomas Bilbao Hospitalet, a Basque-origin architect and politician who fled Spain and settled in Mexico in 1942.

Tatiana Bilbao studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana where she obtained her Bachelor of Architecture and Urbanism degree in 1996.

In 1998, Tatiana Bilbao received an honorable mention and was awarded the best architecture thesis of the year.

Tatiana Bilbao focused on sustainable design and social housing in her book "A House is Not Just a House".

Tatiana Bilbao's work was influenced by her political interest in Mexico City.

Tatiana Bilbao hated seeing developers take land and the identity of Mexico.

Tatiana Bilbao then started designing housing for under 8k for the lower-class which led to her focus on social housing.

Tatiana Bilbao co-founded LCM in 1999 which explores uncharted geometries and generates unprecedented spaces.

Tatiana Bilbao has worked to create low-cost housing to solve Mexico's social housing problem.

Tatiana Bilbao has been visiting professor at Andres Bello University, Yale School of Architecture, Peter Behrens School of Architecture, and the Rice School of Architecture.

Tatiana Bilbao taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and was a professor of design at her alma mater, Ibero-American University.

In 2017 Bilbao curated, in collaboration with Gonzalo Ortega, the exhibition Perspectives: Tatiana Bilbao Estudio organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, where their projects produced in the period from 2004 to 2017 were presented.

Tatiana Bilbao was the recipient of the Design Vanguard "Top 10 Emerging Firm" award in 2007.

In 2010, Tatiana Bilbao was named as part of the Architectural League Emerging Voices.

Tatiana Bilbao received the Kunstpries Berlin award in 2012 and in 2013, she was awarded the CEMEX Building award.

In 2014, Tatiana Bilbao received the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture Prize from the LOCUS Foundation and the Cite de L'Architecture of Paris.

In 2017, Tatiana Bilbao received the A+Awards Impact Award for her groundbreaking work in social housing and sustainable design.

Tatiana Bilbao's projects are part of the collection of the Centre d'Art George Pompidou in Paris, France, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.