Solo Tatiana Bilbao

This house is a composition of twenty three cubes with identical dimensions. The cube is the most basic living space created by the hand of man, a non-existent form in nature. These blocks emerge from the ground, affirming their strong connection to the site and the land itself. In order to impregnate the living blocks, each cube is uniquely carved to create openings but also to modulate, characterize, and differentiate interior spaces, creating spaces specific to each program. Solo House uses a process of differentiation within a repetitive system to create a morphological landscape connected to the wilderness of the site.

Born in 1972 in Mexico City. Lives and works in Mexico City.

Tatiana Bilbao is known as one of the most brilliant architect of her generation. She graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana in 1996 and founded the Tatiana Bilbao SC agency in 2004. Her multidisciplinary agency explores urban and social crisis solutions, both in Mexico and abroad. Tatiana Bilbao’s architecture connects elegance, modernity and craftsmanship such as clay court together with cement for Ajijic’s house in 2010 for instance. In 2009, Tatiana Bilbao received the Architectural League of New York’s emerging Voices Award and in 2012 the Berliner Kunstpreis’ honors and the Berlin Arts Prize. Following in 2014, the architect received the prestigious Global Award for Sustainable Architecture of LOCUS.

The agency’s projects are published in A+U, Domus and the New-York Times. Since 2005, she teaches architecture and urban design in several universities including Andrés Bello University in Santiago, Chili, and Peter Behrens’ School of Architecture in Dusselldorf. In 2015, he joined as a guest lecturer of Luis Kahn’s professorship at Yale University in New-York. She also created the house of the artist Gabriel Orozco in 2008 in Mexico City and her works are part of the Centre Pompidou collection in Paris.