Source Books in Architecture No. 16: Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO focuses on the work of a Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO and is meant to expose the foundations and implications of the work in question. The practice is documented through conversations, studies, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs at a level of detail that allows for a nuanced understanding of the disciplinary agenda from conception to completion. This content is accompanied by contributions from critics and other designers that further explore the significance of the work.

Located in Mexico City, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is well known internationally for its use of traditional Mexican construction techniques, the highly sculptural effects of its buildings and its unusually collaborative approach toward each client. Founded by Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) in 2004, its completed buildings include the Gratitude Open Chapel in La Ruta del Peregrino, Gabriel Orozco's house in Roca Blanca and the botanical garden in Culiacan. This volume appraises the studio's work to date in four thematic sections: Inhabiting, Space, Collage and Context. The texts by Patrick Charpenel, Simon Hartmann, Raymund Ryan and a conversation with Gonzalo Ortega address Bilbao's uniquely contemporary architectural language, which combines the efficient use of materials, optimal function and an original design with a discreet aesthetic that always conveys a responsiveness toward landscape.

A House Is Not Just a House argues precisely that. The book traces Tatiana Bilbao's diverse work on housing ranging from large-scale social projects to single-family luxury homes. These projects offer a way of thinking about the limits of housing: where it begins and where it ends. Regardless of type, her work advances an argument on housing that is simultaneously expansive and minimal, inseparable from the broader environment outside of it and predicated on the fundamental requirements of living. Working within the turbulent history of social housing in Mexico, Bilbao argues for participating even when circumstances are less than ideal--and from this participation she is able to propose specific strategies learned in Mexico for producing housing elsewhere. A House Is Not Just a House includes a recent lecture by Bilbao at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, as well as reflections from fellow practitioners and scholars, including Amale Andraos, Gabriela Etchegaray, Hilary Sample, and Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco.

Tatiana Bilbao, architecte mexicaine, a réalisé des projets au Mexique, en Chine et en Espagne. En 1999 elle est la cofondatrice, avec Fernando Romero, du laboratoire de recherche sur l'architecture et l'urbanisme vouée au développement de l'architecture à Mexico, le LCM. Elle crée, en 2004, l'agence Tatiana Bilbao.

With this fourth O'Neil Ford Duograph, The Center for American Architecture and Design, together with the O'Neil Ford Chair in Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin, are publishing another set of buildings by two architects from one country. Tatiana Bilbao and Derek Dellekamp are, without doubt, two outstanding figures of contemporary Mexican architecture. Their body of work is not only extensive - it also shows a research approach quite unlike that of any other of their international colleagues. This volume includes sketches, drawings and photographs, as well as two analytical essays by Mexican critics and statements on the two buildings. All provide the discursive context as well as insights into the selected buildings' significance.