Founded in 2010, Michan Architecture is a studio based in Mexico City. The practice operates as a laboratory of architecture via built commissions and speculative projects, exploring new possibilities within the discipline. We see architecture as a flirtation towards the built environment; a question towards the norm, a speculation of what the future can be.  

The studio is led by Isaac Michan. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Universidad Iberoamericana with studies in RMIT University and a Masters in Architecture from Pratt Institute. He is a profesor at Universidad Anahuac and has taught at Universidad Iberoamericana and the AA Visiting School in Mexico City. 

For our built work, which grows within a hybrid process that oscillates between digital and analogue techniques from its conceptual development to its built stage, we find great affinity in our process of exploring emerging technologies and how they translate into local craft, while understanding both the potential and the limitations of each type of media. We like to personalize each tool, break it, and then use it through an unorthodox but rigorous method to produce an ambiguous work, uncertain of its age.

Michan Architecture received the 2019 Design Vanguard Award from Architectural Record, one of the most prestigious architectural publications in the United States, which honors 10 emerging practices from around the world. "that are demonstrating inventive approaches to shaping the built environment." DL1310 Apartment Building designed in collaboration with Young & Ayata received the 2019 Progressive Architecture Award from Architect Magazine. In 2017 AL Apartment recive the American Architecture Prize in the Interior Design/ Residential category. The work of the studio has been internationally published and widely exhibited.