S-AR is an architectural design studio based in Mexico (Monterrey and Mexico City).

S-AR is formally established as a professional firm in 2006. Their work focuses on the design and development of architectural projects of several scales and typologies from private, experimental and social houses to architectural installations, educational buildings and design of furniture and other objects including books and independent publications about architecture.

S-AR´s work has been awarded the Emerging Voices Award by The Architectural League of New York (New York, U.S.A., 2016), the Design Vanguard Award by Architectural Record for emerging architects (New York, U.S.A., 2013), the Dwell Design Award by Dwell Magazine for the Best Dwelling (San Francisco, U.S.A., 2020), the Blueprint Award by Blueprint Magazine for the Best Small Project (London, U.K., 2020), the 1st. Place in the XXI Cemex Building National Award 2012 (Mexico, 2012) and the 1st. Place in National Competition “Bicentennial Elementary School” (Mexico, 2008). They received the Young Artists Grant “Jovenes Creadores” CONACULTA – FONCA (Arts and Culture Mexican Council) in the discipline of Architectural Design (Mexico, 2009) and they were part of the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling at MoMA – Museum of Modern Art (New York, U.S.A., 2007). The studio received an Award of Merit in the 2020 AZ Awards (Toronto, Canada, 2020), an Honorable Mention in the AN Best of Design Awards by The Architect´s Newspaper (New York, U.S.A., 2020), an Honorable Mention in the International Competition “Possible Cities” organized by ARPAFIL (Guadalajara, Mexico, 2009) and they were finalist for the Museo Experimental el Eco Pavilion in Mexico City (Mexico, 2014). S-AR has been nominated for the 2014 Ibero-American Architecture Biennial Award  (Rosario, Argentina, 2014) and for the 2019 Ibero-American Architecture Biennial Award  (Asuncion, Paraguay, 2019), and selected -Emerging Designer- in the Present for the Arts in Mexico by La Tempestad Magazine of Arts (Mexico, 2014), selected to represent Mexico in the BAL – Latin-American Biennial of Architecture (Mexico – Spain – LATAM, 2015), selected to be part of the Mexico´s Pavilion in the 15 and 16 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia – 15th and 16th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (Mexico – Italy, 2016 / 2018) and selected to participate in the XX Chilean Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (Valparaiso, Chile, 2017), the BIA-AR – Argentinean Architecture International Biennial (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016) and at the eleventh edition of the Momentum Biennale – MOMENTUM 11 – HOUSE OF COMMONS (Moss/Jeløya, Norway, 2021).

S-AR´s work has been part of the exhibitions YALA – Young Architects in Latin America – La nouvelle architecture en Amérique Latine at the arc en rêve centre d´architecture (Bordeaux, France, 2018) and the MARQ – Architecture and Design Museum (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019), Häuser für alle at the IFA – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Stuttgart, Germany, 2019), Diseñando México – Architettura: Necessità e Libertà at the International Architecture Festival Mantovarchitettura – Politecnico di Milano (Mantova, Italy, 2019), among others. Also S-AR´s work has been part of the exhibition series of Monoambiente, Gallery of Design and Architecture (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and of the exhibitions program of LIGA, Space for Architecture, Mexico City (Mexico City).

Some S-AR´s lectures at several forums and universities include the Navarra University (Pamplona, Spain), the ETSAB – UPC (Barcelona, Spain), The Architectural League of New York (New York, U.S.A.), the GSAPP – Columbia University (New York, U.S.A.) the University of Houston (Houston, U.S.A.), MONTE 153C (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and the Atelier Piloto´s lecture series (Brasilia, Brazil).

S-AR has exposed their work at various universities, forums and exhibitions about architecture and design in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the United States. Todate S-AR has participated in international publications of architecture in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Italy, UK,
Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovenia, Turkey, Korea, China, Japan, Australia and USA. Also S-AR´s work has been published in numerous printed magazines and specialized websites about design and architecture including: Architectural Record, Domus, Dwell, Casabella, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Azure, AN The Architects Newspaper, Dezeen, MARK, PLOT, Arquine, Archdaily, Plataforma Arquitectura, MocoLoco, Designboom, Dailytonic, Archidose, Tectónica, Notcot, BauNetz, Thisispaper, Inhabitat, Morfae, About:blank, ARfolio, Campsite, Designlines, Gooood, Folio, HOTBOOK, Design Bureau, Código, Journal du Design, Fubiz, Formagramma, Young Offenders, Divisare, RedFundamentos, Edition29, The Spaces, urbanNext, ARCHITECT Magazine, ARQA, DesignTAXI, FRAME, Architizer, Muuuz, Designment, Amallective, Archinect, Arkitekten, Arhitext, ESCALA Arquitectura Latinoamericana, A al Cuadrado – Arquitectura en América Latina, CNN and WIRED, among others.

In paralel, S-AR leads a non-profit organization called Comunidad Vivex, a platform for design, development and implementation of Social Architecture projects.

www.comunidadvivex.org

S-AR selects the invited architectural studios to develop the Architecture content for the AAF Magazine.

www.revista-aaf.net