Camilo Restrepo Ochoa
Design Critic in Architecture
Camilo Restrepo Ochoa is principal and co-founder with Juliana Gallego Martinez of AGENdA Agencia de arquitectura in Medellin, Colombia. He graduated as an architect from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in 1998, and holds a masters degree from Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya through the METROPOLIS program in 2005.
In 2020 AGENdA agencia de arquitectura was selected as one of the most creative, interesting and promising emerging architects by DOMUS Magazine.
In 2020 AGENdA awarded 2nd Prize by Fondazione Frate Sole, for the Church in Jojutla Mexico in association with Dellekamp/Schleich.
In 2017 AGENdA took part of Making New History at the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Their work has been exhibited at MAK center 2019, L.A for the exhibition Soft Schindler, and in Mexico City in LIGA DF, in Mexico.
In 2014 he was nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Architecture Prize in Chicago, and the BSi (B-S-I, Banca della Svizzera Italiana) Architecture award in Switzerland.
His work has been widely published around the world, and he was one of three finalists of the 2012 Rolex Mentor Protégé award.
He has been curator for different architecture exhibitions and events in Latin America. He has received the Colombian national prize for architecture and design Lapiz de acero in 2008 with the project Orquideorama in association with J.Paul Restrepo and PlanB.