Entorno y Contexto. Consulting and project development office founded in 2020 by Alejandro Polo Lamadrid in Mexico City. Made up of a multidisciplinary team, it combines permanent staff with strategic partnerships of specialists in various disciplines.
This structure has allowed the firm to address a wide spectrum of projects including architecture, master planning, urban design, landscape architecture, urban and territorial planning, mobility, as well as project management and administration. Its approach is distinguished by a transversal and comprehensive vision that guarantees innovative solutions adapted to each context.
Alejandro Polo. Architect and urban planner, graduated from the UAM Xochimilco, and has a master's degree in Urban Planning from UNAM. He has complemented his training with specialization courses in project evaluation, market, mobility and urban design. He has collaborated in prominent architecture and mobility offices, as well as in FONATUR (1996-2008) as development strategy manager, leading tourism projects alongside renowned international consultants and firms.
In 2009 he co-founded 128 Arquitectura y Diseño Urbano and, in 2020, he founded Entorno y Contexto, an office specializing in architecture, planning and urban design. Since 2009 he has been a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at UNAM, where he has coordinated the Urban Projects Workshop of the Master's Degree in City since 2014. He has also taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana and at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
He has received multiple awards at the Biennial of the College of Architects of Mexico for projects of urban improvement and recovery of public space, and has collaborated with architects such as Enrique Norten, Miquel Adrià and Carlos Herrera in various architectural competitions.
