Michan Architecture is a studio based in Mexico City founded in 2010.
The practice operates as a laboratory of architecture, 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 has been awarded by the Architectural League of New York with The
League Prize for Young Architects + Designers 2020. In 2019 they were
recipients of Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record Magazine, which
honors 10 emerging practices from around the world. "That are
demonstrating inventive approaches to shaping the built environment."
DL1310 Apartment Building received the 2019 Progressive Architecture Award from
Architect Magazine. AL apartment received the American Architecture Prize in
residential architecture 2017. In 2015 Z53 Social Housing won an Architizer
Award, for Low-cost housing and in 2022 they received the first prize in a competition
for a Garden and Scenic Pavilion in Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City.
The practice is led by Isaac Michan Daniel. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture
from Universidad Iberoamericana with studies at RMIT and a Master of Science in
Architecture from Pratt Institute. He has taught at Universidad Anahuac,
Universidad Iberoamericana and the AA Visiting School in Mexico City.
We pursue architecture as a material practice, hybridizing local craft with
digital and analogue thinking. The work is a reaction to existing conditions,
it strives to find a fine balance for the familiar, yet at precise completely
weird. For us this midpoint is where the work is able to speak with the past
without copying the recipes, while looking forward for new ways to misbehave
mater and tectonics.
Since 2010 the studio has received the valuable contribution of the following people: Narciso Martinez, Fernando Gomez, Eduardo Lorenzana, Denise Peralta, Arturo Lezama, Alan Eskildsen, Omar Acevedo, Ciria Garcia, Elizabeth Frias, Daniel Amkie, Tamara Cortez, Jorge Sanchez, Juan Alan Gonzales, Daniela Ruiz, Victor Lima, Ehecatl Cabrera, Roman Vicenteño, Poleth Luna, Jose Luis Ramos, Montserrat Garciacesar, Christian Morales, Benjamin Caballero, Indira Fernández, Fernando Alamilla, Jose Perez, Sonia Mendez, Isaac Salame, Ximena Ibarra, Ricardo Marentes.
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