2024-05-01T01:24:31-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150038646/mexican-architect-tatiana-bilbao-featured-in-new-time-space-existence-video-series Archinect 2017-11-21T13:53:00-05:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ib/ibyepzfhf0hdwtfl.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Eschewing any fixed style or dogma, acclaimed Mexican architect <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/114231/tatiana-bilbao" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tatiana Bilbao</a> has instead built a body of work that is both visually daring and socially meaningful.&nbsp;As part of our partnership with&nbsp;<a href="https://plane-site.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PLANE&mdash;SITE</a>&nbsp;(a Berlin-based creative agency working at&nbsp;the interface of urban form, cultural space and social life),&nbsp;we are sharing the second video from their&nbsp;<em>Time-Space-Existence&nbsp;</em>series which features the prominent architect discussing her work.&nbsp;<br></p> <p>In this new short video, Bilbao (b. 1972) suggests that the architect has a moral responsibility to foreground people over profit. In her words, architecture is the act of &ldquo;making places and spaces, by people, for people&rdquo;. Produced by <a href="https://plane-site.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PLANE&mdash;SITE</a>, the video has been commissioned by the GAA Foundation and funded by the ECC in the run-up to the Time-Space-Existence exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia Architettura (opening May 2018).</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8x/8x89sbliki3xid2e.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8x/8x89sbliki3xid2e.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>VIVIENDA SUSTENTABLE ACU&Ntilde;A &copy; Jaime Navarro</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/dn/dnv77n6bjq0p5wfb.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/dn/dnv77n6bjq0p5wfb.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>CASA VENTURA &copy; Rory Gardiner</figcaption></figure><p>Bilbao has shot to international prominence in...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/139400639/cutting-across-the-chicago-architecture-biennial-tatiana-bilbao-s-solution-to-mexico-s-housing-shortage Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-10-20T19:56:00-04:00 >2015-10-24T18:32:41-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f0/f0m4oo5xtogisgvy.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Housing &ndash; its affordability, accessibility, and form &ndash; is a key preoccupation of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. While not necessarily the core concern for most of the Biennial's participants, housing gets a significant share of the exhibition's floorspace.</p><p>Several participants' considerations of contemporary housing issues are exhibited in full-scale, benefitting the visitor with an easily relatable (and, at least by size, literally inhabitable) form. As one of these life-sized installations, <a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/72305734/tatiana-bilbao-s-c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tatiana Bilbao Estudio</a>'s sustainable housing project stands out for already being realized outside of the Biennial's walls.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/lz/lzrchac1kmirz0gc.jpg"></p><p>Designed in response to Mexico's housing shortage, referencing the country's overall deficit of 9 million homes, Bilbao's Sustainable Housing project aims to provide a prototype for affordable, adaptable, single-family social housing. After researching with potential users and observing concurrent trends in local social housing design, the firm produced a modified vision...</p>