Rocha Workshop
Introduction
Mauricio Rocha Iturbide (b. Mexico City, 1965) is a Mexican architect.
Since 2012 he has worked in association with Gabriela Carrillo "Gabriela Carrillo (architect)").
Its architecture and artistic interventions obey rational thinking that integrates the environment and spatial sensitivity.
From being able to achieve a series of subtractions that generate space due to absence, to simple forms that propose complex experiences.
Mauricio Rocha has been characterized by a human sense, he believes his work should be seen as a team effort. It is not about an idea but about a language. It seeks to generate in its projects an architecture that ages with dignity.
Biography
He is the son of the photographer Graciela Iturbide and the architect Manuel Rocha Díaz, brother of Manuel Rocha Iturbide.
He studied architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He wrote his thesis about the Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and obtained Honorable Mention in his professional exam.
He has taught classes in Architectural Language and Projects at the Faculty of Architecture "Facultad de Arquitectura (UNAM)") of the UNAM (1992-1998), the Universidad Anáhuac (2004) and the Universidad Iberoamericana, as well as teaching at Universities in the United States and Latin America.
He has been a FONCA scholarship recipient in the Young Creators Program 1991-1992.
In addition to Architecture, Mauricio Rocha has worked as an artist making interventions in different buildings and participating in exhibitions in national and international places.
With his first project carried out in 1990, the house of his mother, the Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide; He founded his own “Architecture Workshop”, although he continued collaborating with his father until his death in 1996. From this moment on, Mauricio Rocha merged both offices to form a new one.
As an architect he has carried out both public and private work, alternating his work with carrying out ephemeral architectural interventions in art exhibitions, as well as museography.
Among his most important architectural works are different projects carried out in Mexico City, such as the “Center for Compensatory Care for the Blind and Visually Impaired in the Federal District” in the Iztapalapa district, “the Shelter for Street Girls” on Av. Observatorio, in the Miguel Hidalgo District, “Mercado de San Pablo Oztotepec” in the Milpa Alta District; He also designed the Audi and Porsche car dealerships in Interlomas, and various residential homes in both Mexico City and Morelos, Querétaro, Ensenada, Oaxaca; among other works.