Andrea Soto Morfín

Andrea Soto Morfín is an architect from ITESO University, in 2015 she won the CEMEX Architect Marcelo Zambrano Scholarship through which she studied the Master in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, graduating with distinction in 2017 and obtaining recognition from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for Academic excellence. Since 2010, she has been co-director of ATELIER ARS founded by Alejandro Guerrero. Together, they have received the Emerging Voices award, given by The Architectural League of New York and the Design Vanguard from the Architectural Record magazine, both awards in the year 2015.

Their work has been nominated for the Mies Crown Hall America’s Prize that is granted by the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and has been a finalist in the Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial in Sao Paulo, Brasil. She has been lecturer at Harvard Latin GSD, UBC SALA 2020, as well as guest critic at Harvard GSD and UVA. Some of their work became part of the Official Exhibition of Mexico’s Pavilion at the Architecture Venice Biennial in 2014, 2016 and 2018. They obtained a Silver Medal in the XV Mexican Architecture Biennial and were finalists in the Emerging Architects prize from the Architectural Review magazine in 2018. Their work has been recognized and 1st prized at the III Latin American Biennial of Landscape Architecture. In 2019 as part of the event Mantovarchitettura 2019 they participated as lecturers and their work was presented in the international exhibition “Diseñando México” of the Milan Polytechnic, Polo Territorial di Mantova, in collaboration with CASABELLA.

Their proposals are the result of a deep reflection regarding the role of history in the architectural project. They come from the idea of a living tradition, that is recreated in the idea of continuity and that simultaneously shows a concern to connect with life in the present. Their work develops through very different scales; from the design of furniture, gardens, single-family houses, to industrial-type and landscape projects; always with a special attention in the manufacture, the materials, and attending also the relation of the local craftsmen with the constructive techniques of the present. Their current work focuses on researching and proposing new relationships between the disciplines of landscape and architecture.