Loreta Castro

Loreta Castro Reguera is an architect living and working in Mexico City. She holds a bachelor from UNAM, a Master of Architecture from the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio and a Master in Urban Design with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her work focuses on research and project proposals that emphasize the image of water in the city by showing the possibilities of integrating the water cycle into daily urban life through the use of infrastructural public spaces. She is professor at the School of Architecture UNAM, institution from which she coordinated the design of  La Quebradora Hydrological Park with Manuel Perlo Cohen, awarded the Regional and Global Gold Prizes of the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction in 2017. She has been a guest lecturer at various universities around the world and has published books and several essays and articles for periodicals and compilations. Her work has been featured in diverse journals and magazines from which the New York Times and El País outsand. Loreta is member of the National Academy of Architecture in Mexico, has been part of the National System of Art Creators of the Ministry of Culture of the same country, is member of the Board of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, member of the Harvard GSD Alumni Council, and board member of the Mexico in Harvard Foundation.

In 2010, she co – founded Taller Capital with José Ambrosi, a Mexican architecture, landscape and urban design firm focused on projects where design serves as the instrument that stitches the territory together, creating retroactive infrastructures. Starting from a detailed observation of the context, the architectural expression lies in providing spatial quality through material austerity. The firm has designed and built various buildings and public spaces. Their work has received national and international recognition, including the MCHAP Emerge 2022, Architecture Award at the XII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, Silver Medal at the Biennial of Mexican Architecture, and the Emerging Voices award presented by the Architectural League of New York, among others. The firm curated the RETROACTIVE exhibition at the 2022 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, TERRA. Their projects have been featured in various architecture and design magazines and books, such as Casabella, The Architectural Review, Arquine, and A+T, among others.