Profile
Estudio Macías Peredo is an architecture firm founded by Salvador Macías Corona and Magui Peredo Arenas, both graduates of the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente in Guadalajara, Mexico, where they have been professors in the projects area for several years. In 2019, Diego Quirarte Contreras joined the firm as a partner.
Macías Peredo has presented numerous lectures and forums on its professional practice in universities in Mexico and abroad, including Columbia University, New York; the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; the University of Texas at Arlington; the University of Washington, Seattle; Rice University, Houston; the Latin GSD at Harvard University; the University of Tokyo; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas in Lima; as well as the International Art Fair 2018 in Bogota, the AprA Architecture Meeting in Medellin, the Pan-American Biennial of Architecture in Quito, the School of Architects in Brasília, the School of Architects in Mendoza, Argentina, and the 2019 Mantova Architettura in Mantua, Italy.
The firm won second place in the competition for the Mexico Pavilion at Expo Shanghai in 2010 and first place at El Eco Pavilion in Mexico City in 2013. In 2014 the firm was awarded the Emerging Voices prize by the Architectural League of New York. The firm exhibited its work at the 2015 LIGA, Space of Architecture, and was selected as a finalist for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize in the “Emerge” category in 2018. The firm participated in the Mexico Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2018 and 2020 and in the exhibition Designing Mexico: Architettura: Necessità e Libertà at the MantovArchitettura 2019. It was a finalist in the Panorama of Works of the 11th Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial in 2019.
The firm’s monograph To Still the Noise was published in 2017 by Arquine, and its models, sketches, and other materials for the project Casa Escondida in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, are part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s private collection.
In addition to their professional practice, the firm’s partners coordinate the architecture exhibition space Jardín 17 at Casa Estudio Luis Barragán in Mexico City.