
ROZANA MONTIEL is founder and director of the Mexico-based architectural firm ROZANA MONTIEL | ESTUDIO DE ARQUITECTURA specialized on architectural design, artistic re-conceptualizations of space, and the public domain. The studio works on a wide variety of projects in different scales and layers that range from the city to the book, artefact and other micro-objects.
Montiel holds an MA in Architectural Theory and Criticism from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya UPC (Spain, 2000), and a BA in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico, 1998). She recently won the “Overall Award” and 1st. place in the “Moving” category of the Miami Archmarathon Awards. In 2017, she also won the Moira Gemmill Award given by The Architectural Review in London; and was selected by the Rockefeller Foundation and The Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation for a residency of artistic research at the Bellagio Center in Como, Italy. In 2016, she was nominated for the Schelling Architecture Foundation Award in Karlsruhe, Germany; and was winner of the Emerging Voices Award granted by The Architectural League of New York, as well as, front-runner in Premios CDMX for the category Best Architectural Intervention of the Year.
Her interdisciplinary work has been published in renowned architectural digests, as well as exhibited in Mexico, Spain, France, United States, England and China, and has been presented in the Venice, Sao Paulo, Rotterdam and Lima Biennials. Montiel is member of the Editorial Board of the Architectural Magazine Arquine and has taught architecture in several prestigious universities. She recently gave the inaugural lecture for the 2018 Spring semester in Columbia GSAPP and will be teaching at Cornell University an Option Studio in collaboration with Derek Dellekamp.
Alin Wallach | MX | Francisca López Pani | MX | |
Adriana Rodríguez | MX | Louise Rouzaud | FR | |
Karina Caballero | MX | Ombeline de Laage | FR | |
Victoria Calderón | MX | Ix-Chel Báez | MX | |
Josefa Díaz | MX | Caroline Figaro | FR | |
Amaranta Guzmán | MX | Silvia Mejía | CO | |
Hortense Blanchard | FR | Ana Sofía Quirós | MX | |
Susana Rojas | MX | Yaoci Pardo | MX | |
Alejandro Aparicio | MX | Cecilia Brañas | ES | |
Erendira Lozano | MX | Diana León | MX | |
Luis Galán | ES | Clara García | ES | |
Daniel Díaz | MX | Lucia Tinghi | CH | |
Hadrien Tricaud | FR | Carol Soós | RO | |
Ivar Labastida | MX | Jorge Alcocer | MX | |
Jorge Alcocer | MX | Aldo Espinobarros | MX | |
Mariel Higuerey | VZ | Silvia Huicochea | MX | |
Cecilia Ceballos | MX | Rodrigo Alcocer | MX | |
Vivian Pérez | CO | Alejandro Maya | MX | |
Alejandro Fernández del Castillo | MX | Omar Chávez | MX | |