18. TrooRa Magazine The Women’s Issue Spring ’23

Tatiana Bilbao Spotlighting Mexican Architect

Designing Through Collaboration to Create Exquisite Spaces PHOTO CREDIT COURTESY OF: ANA HOP, RORY GARDINER, IWAN BAAN, TATIANA BILBAO ESTUDIO WRITTEN BY: KEVIN JAMES JEFFERY

Tatiana Bilbao

“What is it to be a woman in a man’s world?”

As a young architecture student, that was one of the first questions Tatiana Bilbao was asked during a lecture. At the time, she had never considered that the world wasn’t equal for men and women. That became an important lesson that would stick with her throughout her career. Another important lesson Bilbao learned in school was that it takes collaboration between many minds to create a space that reflects the needs of those living and working in a building. Not only from the people designing the spaces but from those who will use them as well. When Bilboa opened her studio in 2004, those main principles would carry her, to where it is today.

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