Felipe Orensanz and Rodrigo Durán are Mexico City-based architects. Their work focuses on understanding—and often contesting—the different ways in which urban and architectural knowledge is produced, distributed, and consumed, as well as on the political, economic, and ideological implications of these processes. In doing so, they have explored a wide range of means, including writing, teaching, researching, designing, curating, editing, translating, interviewing, cataloging, drawing, and mapping. Their projects and writings have been published in journals and magazines such as Pidgin, Architect, CLOG, MONU, Displacements, Ground Up, Horizonte, Lunch, Studio, Bracket, Bitácora, Buildings, the Cornell Journal of Architecture, and Critical Planning, as well as in the books Ciudad Independencia / Seguro Social (Arquine + IMSS), Mexibility: We Are in the City, We Cannot Leave (RM + Goethe Institute Mexico), Apuntes sobre la Vivienda social (Arquine + Infonavit), and Apan Laboratory (MOS Architects + Infonavit). In addition, their work has been featured in exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (UNAM), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Sweden’s Virserum Konsthall, and the Oslo Triennale. They have taught and lectured throughout Mexico and Latin-America, and have been invited as guest critics at Princeton, U.C. Berkeley, Woodbury University, Washington University, Kean University, Politecnico di Milano, University of Michigan, and The City College of New York. Other academic activities include fellowships and residencies at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2015), The People’s Forum (New York, 2018), New School Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (New York, 2019 + 2023), Art Omi (New York, 2020), and the Institute for Public Architecture (Governors Island, 2022). Felipe Orensanz studied architecture at UABC University in Mexicali and completed both a graduate program in housing and a master’s degree in urbanism at Mexico’s National University (UNAM) where he was awarded the Alfonso Caso Medal in 2010. Rodrigo Durán studied Architecture at Anáhuac University in Mexico City and holds a master’s degree in Sustainable Architecture, Design, and Construction from Universidad del Medio Ambiente. Work: Sixth Mexico City Architecture Biennal // EL INSURGENTE: Mexico-Toluca Interurban Train (in collaboration with Lance Wyman) // Mextropoli 2023 // Forensis with Eyal Weizman (ICSI New School) // El Sitio: A Timeless Way of Building (INSITE) // Bootcamp Unidad Independencia (CENTRO + Taubman College) // Ciudad Independencia / Seguro Social (Arquine + IMSS) // Governors Island Block House Residency (Institute for Public Architecture) // Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (Ciudad Profunda) // Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales (Ciudad Independencia / Seguro Social) // Elements for Women Visibility in Mexican Public Spaces: Casa de la Asegurada Unidad Independencia (Oslo Triennale) // A Typological Analysis of Nursing Home Environments During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Risks and Potential (COVID-19 and Cities) // Un sistema constructivo apropiable adaptado a México: El caso de la familia Domínguez (AUS 29) // Cablebus CDMX (in collaboration with Lance Wyman) // Casa de la Asegurada: A Collective Housing Facility for Women Development in Mexico (Buildings Journal) // Feeding the Urban Leviathan (Critical Planning Journal 25: Planning in Crisis) // Mexico City After Mexico City (Cornell Journal of Architecture 12: After) // El dibujo en las aulas de arquitectura (Bitácora 42: Dibujo y arquitectura) // Conversaciones sobre vivienda y modernidad (Arquine + IMSS + Universidad Anáhuac) // Art Omi Architecture Residency (Art Omi) // Movilidad Integrada CDMX (in collaboration with Lance Wyman) // Communism: Return to the New Commons? with Étienne Balibar (ICSI New School) // The Mexicali Workshop (UABC Mexicali) // The Architecture of Necessity (Virserums Konsthall) // Social Housing in Mexico (Woodbury University) // Housing Laboratory in Apan, Mexico (Architect Magazine) // Cityscapes of (Im)mobility (RM Editores + Instituto Goethe México) // The Water Tower (Bracket 05: On Sharing) // Marx and Capital: the Book, the Concept, the History with David Harvey (The People’s Forum) // Habitar sin la vista (Bitácora 39: Sentidos) // Redensificación Urbana (Infonavit + Arquine) // Vivienda y ciudad (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) // Pabellón UAN (Festival Mextrópoli) // The Fiestas are Something Else (Blog de Crítica) // The Sewer Diver (Pidgin 21: Flushed) // Down in Mexicali (Infonavit + Arquine) // Del territorio al habitante (Infonavit) // Laboratorio de vivienda en Apan (Infonavit + MOS Architects) // Border Town Fever (Infonavit + MOS Architects) // Architecture and the Art of Hiding Poverty (STUDIO 10: Hidden) // Se Habla Español (LUNCH 10: Alien) // Wohnungsfrage Academy (HKW Berlín) // Coming and Going. Lance Wyman: Urban Icons (MUAC UNAM) // FOLIO 27 (MUAC UNAM) // Lance Wyman: Mexico (RM Editores) // NAFTAscapes (Displacements Journal 01: Crimescapes) // Geography and the Identity of Fear (MONU 20: Geographical Urbanism) // Caput Mundi, Umbilicus Mundi (Ground Up Journal 03: Here) // Building New Ruins (Horizonte 09: Ruins) // Poscards from a [Pan]Latin-American Capital City (CLOG: Miami) // Andar la ciudad (17 Instituto de Estudios Críticos) // Competition of Competitions: Into the Void (Storefront for Art and Architecture) // The Unfinished Grid: Displaced Cartographies (The Architectural League + Museum of the City of New York) // Mexico City: Growth at the Limit? (LSE Urban Age) // Construir ciudad. Un análisis multidimensional para los corredores de transporte de la Ciudad de México (El Colegio de México). Contact: felipeorensanz@fo-rd.mx // rodrigoduran@fo-rd.mx // ES EN