El Croquis 225: Macías Peredo 2014–2024

El Croquis 225: Macías Peredo (2014–2024)

The architects of Studio Macías Peredo, based in Guadalajara and led by Salvador Macías Corona, Magui Peredo Arenas, and Diego Quirarte Contreras, believe that the act of designing is inseparable from the act of remembering. Architecture is a living testimony to the culture of a place. The studio is greatly influenced by pre-Hispanic architecture, archaeology, and Mexican colonial styles, and the partners travel extensively, studying vernacular and modern buildings throughout Mexico in order to grasp how they work.

This issue presents their work from 2014 to 2024, including the Punta Caliza Hotel, Izamal Water Garden, and tropical residential complexes.

Macías Peredo Arquitectos is an architecture firm based in Guadalajara, Mexico, founded in 2012 by Salvador Macías and Magui Peredo. The studio has garnered a series of awards and recognitions both nationally and internationally, including the first prize in the "Pabellón ECO" competition at the Museo Experimental el Eco in Mexico City in 2013, the "Emerging Voices" award from the Architectural League of New York in the United States in 2014, the first prize in the Cemex competition (Hotel Punta Caliza) in 2018, the Silver Medal of the Oscar Niemeyer Award for Latin American Architecture (Torre AVANCER) in 2022, as well as their participation in the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy in 2016 and 2021. Salvador Macías and Magui Peredo were appointed in 2021 as members of the National Academy of Architecture, Guadalajara Chapter.

Salvador Macías Corona (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1977) is an architect graduated with honors from the ITESO University (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, in Guadalajara, Mexico) in 2000, where he has been a professor since 2005. In 2013, he was appointed a member of the Luis Barragán Tapatio Architecture Foundation, an institution that safeguards the Luis Barragán House-Studio in Mexico City, of which he served as vice president from 2021 to 2023.

Magui Peredo Arenas (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1979) is an architect graduated from the ITESO University (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, in Guadalajara, Mexico) in 2004, where she has been a professor since 2010. She has been selected by the New York Times as one of the outstanding international architects in the article "Architecture is no Longer Just a Gentleman's Profession" (2018), by Architectural Digest Mexico as one of the seven Creative Women of Mexico (2021), and selected for the Dallas Architectural Forum (2023).

Diego Quirarte Contreras (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1988) is an architect graduated with honors from the ITESO University (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, in Guadalajara, Mexico) in 2011. He joined Estudio Macías Peredo in 2019.