Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao was our second NewNowNext speaker. For our Arup sponsored series, she presented The Way Things Go, a talk about some of her more recent projects.

Tatiana Bilbao, graduated from Architecture and Urbanism at Universidad Iberoamericana in 1996. She was  advisor for Urban Projects at the Urban Housing and Development Department of Mexico City in 1998-99. In 2004 she set up Tatiana Bilbao S.C. with projects in China and Europe and Mexico. Later she co-founded mxdf an urban research center on the production of space, its occupation, defense, and control in Mexico City. Projects in Mexico include the Botanical Garden Culiacan; Universe House designed with Gabriel Orozco, Puerto Escondido; Parque Biotecnologico, Culiacan; Centro de Artes Escenicas, Guadalajara; and Jinhua Architecture Park in Jinhua, China. Bilbao was named the Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard in 2007. Her work has been published in A+U, Domus, and The New York Times, among others.

Tatiana Bilbao from Irish Architecture Foundation on Vimeo.