Macias Peredo
Salvador Macías Corona, Magui Peredo Arena and Diego Quirarte Contreras.
Estudio Macías Peredo is an architecture firm founded by Salvador Macías Corona and Magui Peredo Arenas, both graduates from Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) in Guadalajara, Mexico, where they have been professors in the projects area for several years.
Macías Peredo have presented numerous lectures and forums on their professional practice in different universities in Mexico and abroad, including the University of Columbia in New York City, the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, the University of Texas in Arlington, the University of Washington in Seattle, the University of Rice in Houston, and the Latin GSD University of Harvard in Massachusetts; also at the University of Tokyo in Japan, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC) in Lima, Peru; the International Art Fair (ARTBO) 2018 in Bogota, at the AprA Architecture Meeting in Medellin, Colombia; the Pan-American Biennial of Architecture of Quito, Ecuador; the School of Architects in Brasilia, Brazil; the School of Architects in Mendoza, Argentina; and the 2019 Mantova Architettura in Mantua, Italy.
In 2014 they were awarded the Emerging Voices prize by The Architectural League of New York. They have exhibited their work in 2015 LIGA, Space of Architecture. They have also been selected by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture in Chicago for the ‘Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize’ as finalists in the MCHAP Emerge category in 2018. They participated in the Mexico Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2018, and in the exhibition ‘Designing Mexico. Architettura: Necessità e Libertà’ at the MantovArchitettura 2019. Finalist in the Panorama of Works of the XI Ibero-American Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Selected to participate in the Mexico Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2020.
Furthermore, the model, sketches, and other material of the project ‘Casa Escondida’ in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, were recently acquired by the SFMoMA for its private collection.
In addition to their professional practice, they coordinate the architecture exhibition space Jardín 17 at Casa Estudio Luis Barragán in Mexico City.