Atelier Ars

Alejandro Guerrero, Andrea Soto

Alejandro Guerrero and Andrea Soto graduated from ITESO and have been working together since 2010. Alejandro Guerrero completed the Arquitectura, Crítica y Proyecto master degree at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia between 2005 and 2006. He was an architectural design professor at ITESO from 2006 to 2020. He won the gold medal at the fifth edition of Jalisco Architecture Biennial in 2007. He has been a member of the Mexican National Academy of Architecture since 2019. He wrote the book Arquitecturas del Fuego I and II in 2020. Andrea Soto won the CEMEX Marcelo Zambrano Scholarship through which she completed a Master's in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, graduating with distinction in 2017 and with special recognition from the American Society of Landscape Architects. She has been a jury member for the Cemex Awards in 2021, 2022, and 2024, and for the Quito Architecture Biennial (BAC) in 2022. She was a speaker at The University of British Columbia (UBC) SALA in 2020, at Moving Boundaries in 2023, and a guest critic at The University of Virginia (UVA) School of Architecture in 2022.

Together they have received the Emerging Voices award from The Architectural League of New York and the Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record magazine, both in 2015. Their work has been nominated twice for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, awarded by the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, with the Levering Trade project in 2016, and with the Bottling Warehouse and Offices for Clase Azul and the Center for Culture and the Arts of the Ribera in 2024. They have been finalists in the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in Sao Paulo Brazil X BIAU with Levering Trade in 2016, and winners at the XIII BIAU in 2024 with the Center for Culture and the Arts of the Ribera.

Their work has been part of the Official Exhibition of the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, 2016, and 2018. In 2018, they obtained a Silver Medal at the XV Mexican Architecture Biennial and were winners of the III Latin American Biennial of Landscape Architecture, both with the project Novasem. In that same year, they were finalists in the AR Emerging Architecture Awards by Architectural Review magazine. In 2019, as part of the Mantovarchitettura event, they participated as speakers and their work was presented at the international exhibition Diseñando México by the Politecnico di Milano, Polo Territoriale di Mantova, in collaboration with Casabella magazine. In 2023, they received a silver recognition at the Erich Mendelsson Preis in Berlin, and in 2024, they were finalists in the Brick Award in Vienna, both with the project Center for Culture and the Arts of the Ribera. In 2024, his work Bottling Warehouse and Offices for Clase Azul, was selected for the 2024 Oscar Niemeyer Prize, obtained the Gold Medal at the XIII Jalisco Architecture Biennial, a Silver Medal at the XVIII National Biennial of Mexican Architecture and is finalist at the Brick Award in Vienna 2026.

They have been lecturers at the Harvard Graduate School of Design through the Latin GSD cycle and also guest critics at that same university in 2016. They have given lectures at the Boston Architectural College BAC in 2016, at the Quito Biennial BAQ in 2022, at the Dallas Architecture Forum DAF in 2023, and at The University of Virginia UVA School of Architecture in 2024, where they were named Harry Shure Visiting Professors of Practice in Architecture.