José Ambrosi

Jose Pablo Ambrosi was born in Mexico City in 1979, he studied Architecture at the School of Architecture, UNAM and at UPC Barcelona where he was part of Carlos Ferrater Cátedra Blanca studio. From 2012 to 2014 he pursued an MBA at the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE).

In 2010, he co-founded Taller Capital with Loreta Castro Reguera, an architecture, landscape and urban design firm focused on projects where design serves as an instrument to improve the conditions of the city through housing densification and infrastructural public spaces. Starting from a detailed observation of the context, the architectural expression lies in providing spatial quality through local materiality. His work has been featured in various architecture and design magazines and books, such as Casabella, The Architectural Review, and A+T, among others. It has also been awarded with the 2022 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize in the emerge category, the architecture prize of the Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial, the Architectural League of New York Emerging Architects prize, and highly commended at the 2020 Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Prize.

Jose Pablo is part of the National System of Art Creators of the Ministry of Culture of Mexico and he is developing a project on self construction housing in Mexico, one of the most relevant forms of architecture in his country. He has taught as an invited professor at several universities, from which outstand the School of Architecture of the University of Venice, Italy (IUAV) and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).

José Pablo is currently developing a project for the newly formed Swedish Architecture Foundation, ReArc Institute, where the main purpose is to recover water culture through a soft water management public space designed for the town of San Lucas Xolox, in Mexico.