Productora | Architecture studio based in Mexico City
PRODUCTORA is an architecture studio based in Mexico City, founded in 2006 by Abel Perles (1972, Argentina), Carlos Bedoya (1973, Mexico), Víctor Jaime (1978, Mexico) and Wonne Ickx (1974, Belgium). In 2024, Natalia Badía (1992, Mexico City) joined the team as an associate, and Abel Perles left the firm.
PRODUCTORA's work is characterised by an emphasis on precise geometries, the search for projects that are legible through clear gestures, and a constant attention to materiality and space as means to produce timeless architecture. Their projects combine conceptual rigour and formal clarity with a deep sensitivity to context, use, and experience.
The studio has been internationally recognised with the Young Architects Forum (2007) and Emerging Voices (2013) awards from the Architectural League of New York, as well as the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for emerging architects (2016). Their first cultural infrastructure project, the Teopanzolco Cultural Centre, received, among other awards, the American Architecture Award (2017), the Oscar Niemeyer Prize for Latin American Architecture (2018), the First International Prize at the Quito Architecture Biennial (2018), the SIMON Architecture Prize – Living Places (2018) and a Special Mention in the Rogelio Salmona Prize for Latin American Architecture (2024).
PRODUCTORA shows a special interest in reuse and rehabilitation projects, as well as interventions in historical or heritage contexts. Its own headquarters in Mexico City, LAGUNA, occupies a former textile factory that the studio has progressively transformed into a working and living space that is now inhabited. Another notable example is Terraza Prim, a lightweight structure on top of a historic building in the city centre, which won the AIA New York Design Award in 2021.
Since 2015, PRODUCTORA has also been established in the United States, where it has developed residential projects in Los Angeles, Denver, St. Louis and New York. In 2022, it completed the Houston Endowment headquarters in Houston, Texas, in collaboration with Kevin Daly Architects: a net-zero office building, the result of an international competition, and the first hybrid steel and cross-laminated timber structure built in the state of Texas.
PRODUCTORA also maintains an intense academic activity. It has participated in teaching at Mexican institutions such as the Universidad Iberoamericana, Centro de Diseño, Tecnológico de Monterrey and Universidad La Salle, as well as at leading international universities, including UCLA, IIT Chicago, Harvard GSD, Princeton, Bard College, UC Berkeley, Cornell and Columbia GSAPP.
