EMERGING VOICE 2014. Estudio Macías Peredo

Each year the League selects eight emerging practitioners through a juried, invited portfolio competition. The Emerging Voices award spotlights individuals and firms based in the United States, Canada, or Mexico with distinct design voices and the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urbanism. The jury reviews significant bodies of realized work and considers accomplishments within the design and academic communities. The work of each Emerging Voice represents the best of its kind, and addresses larger issues within architecture, landscape, and the built environment.

Salvador Macías Corona and Magui Peredo Arenas founded Guadalajara-based Estudio Macías Peredo in 2012 with a focus on design and construction, embracing a critical regionalism in which the craftsman is part of the building process. In their lecture, Macías and Peredo discuss the strong influence that the geographic and social conditions in Guadalajara, with a centuries-old heritage of manual labor and multi-generational artisan families, has on their work. Embracing improvisation and imperfection, the firm combines the local and the global to create a timeless architecture that makes the vernacular contemporary.

Macías Peredo’s positioning of their traditional local culture within the contemporary globalized world is evident in projects such as Oficinas Casa Hidalgo, Casa Atlas, Oficinas Toyo, Casa Chacala, Casa Prado, and the Pabellón Eco 2013 at the Museo Experimental El Eco.

More information about the 2014 Emerging Voices, including an interview with Estudio Macías Peredo, is available at archleague.org/ev14.

Both Macías and Peredo earned their architecture degrees from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) in Guadalajara and graduate degrees from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona. Macías participated in 2008 in the VI Ibero-American Architecture Biennale in Lisbon and in the international exhibition44 Young Architects in Barcelona. Peredo has lectured at institutions across Mexico and her research, “Herbert Bayer and Mathias Goeritz, New Monumentality in Mexico,” has been featured in several architectural forums. The two currently teach at ITESO.

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Magui Peredo, Salvador Macías. Estudio Macías Peredo

Estudio Macias Peredo has given several lectures on his practice at various universities and forums in Mexico and in the city of New York, in the University of Tokyo in Japan and in the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

They have received two silver medals for the Academy of Architecture of Jalisco and several citations for his work built. Obtained the second place in the competition of the Mexico Pavilion in the Shanghai Expo 2010 and first place in the Eco Pavilion 2013 in Mexico City.

Awarded by The Architectural League of New York with the Emerging Voices award 2014. They have recently exhibited his work in LIGA, Space of Architecture 2015.

Magui Peredo (1979). She holds a degree in architecture by ITESO (Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente) and a master degree in Theory and History of Architecture by the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) in Barcelona.

Prior founding Macías Peredo, she has worked in various national and international studios. She has been invited lecturer and critic at various universities in the country and has presented her research on Mathias Goeritz at various national forums.

Since 2010 she holds a teaching position at ITESO, university based in the city of Guadalajara. She is co-founder and director at Estudio Macías Peredo.

Salvador Macías (1977). He holds an honour degree in architecture by ITESO (Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente) and a master degree in Theory and Practice of the Architecture Project by the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) in Barcelona.

His work has been exhibited at institutions such as Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and the Instituto Cultural Cabañas in Guadalajara. He has been a collaborator of the project Torre CUBE 2 of Carme Pinós studio from Barcelona. He also has been one of the lecturers at the 53rd Congress of Americanists held in Mexico City in 2009, with the theme ‘Josef Albers, Approaches to Mexican Architecture’, research work published by UNAM in 2010.

Since 2010 he holds a teaching position at ITESO. He is currently member of the Luis Barragán Architecture Foundation and co-founder and director at Estudio Macías Peredo.

Published on: November 1, 2014

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