About
Mendoza Partida is an international architecture practice based in Barcelona, the product of the symbiosis and connection between Hector Mendoza and Mara Partida, two professionals whose unique sensibility for questioning and interpreting a wide variety of contexts and situations, together with a constant search for new ways of doing, endorses their projects.
A practice whose activity centres principally on the design of cultural amenities and housing, areas where its solutions, as well as responding perfectly, bring exceptional wellbeing. Experimentation, investigation and innovative solutions based on common sense and consistency give Mendoza Partida’s architecture a precise balance of geometry, matter and emotion.
Mendoza Partida creative activity has been consolidated by winning, as founders of MX_SI, numerous national and international competitions, and receiving various awards.
Team
Héctor Mendoza
PhD in Architectural Design (UPC Cum Laude), M.Arch. AA Achitectural Association School of Architecture, London. Architecture Degree ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexico. Founding Partner of MENDOZA PARTIDA Architecutal Studio based in Barcelona (before MX_SI)
Read more...Professor and Researcher at ETSAB UPC at he Architectural Representation Department since 2008. Guest Faculty at different international universities, like DRURY in Missouri USA, UACJ in Ciudad Juarez, or the CHINA ACADEMY of ARTS in Hangzhou directed by Professor Wang Shu.
Before founding his own studio with Mara Partida, he gained experience at well known architecture studios like Massimiliano Fuksas in Rome, Mateo Architects in Barcelona, Brissac Gonzalez in London, and Op Team in Barcelona.
Mara Partida
PhD in Architectural Design (UPC Cum Laude), M.Arch. AA Achitectural Association School of Architecture, London. Architecture Degree ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexico. Founding Partner of MENDOZA PARTIDA Architecutal Studio based in Barcelona (before MX_SI)
Read more...Mara combines her professional activity with academic work and research. She is Lecturer at the Architectural Design Department at ETSAB UPC since 2008, and she has been appointed Guest Faculty at different international universities, like DRURY in Missouri USA, UACJ in Ciudad Juarez, or the CHINA ACADEMY of ARTS in Hangzhou directed by Professor Wang Shu.
Mara obtained the Conacyt scholarship in 1999 for PostGraduate studies at the Architectural Association in London and UPC in Barcelona. Before founding her own practice, she collaborated with Architect Ricardo Legorreta in Mexico City, and with Del Campo Montoliu Architects in Barcelona.
Collaborators
Alejandro Álvarez, Oscar Espinosa Servín, Germán Bosch, Damián Plouganou
Read more...Anne-Sereine Tremblay, Olga Bombac, Saray Bosch, Josep Vicente, Csongor Egyed, Victor Montserrat, Rodrigo Escamilla, Albert Manubens, Samuel Arriola, Filipe Costa, Elsa Bertran, Bor Pungercic, Mariona Oliver, Jure Kolenc, Paco Olivas, Nallely Mansilla, Marc Sánchez, Alejandro Álvarez, Pablo Muñoz, César Bonilla.
Awards
The International Spanish Architecture Award 2013, the Merit Award in Canada’s North American Wood Design Award 2014 (international category), Slovenia’s Plecnik Award 2015, the same year in which they were finalists in the Lakov Chernikhov International Prize for young architects, the FAD International Award, and two nominations to the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2015 and 2017. In 2016, they won the prize in the Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennale for their project for Gösta Serlachius Museum in Finland.
National Prize of Architecture in Concrete. Finland.
Taide Sauna
Finandia Prize. Finalist. Taide Sauna
Piranesi Prize. Finalist. Taide Sauna
Association of Architects (COA Granada) Winners of Merit Award.
Prize
XIII Bienal española de arquitectura y urbanismo Museo Gösta Serlachius, Mänttä, Finlandia.
Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectura de España. Seleccionados: Federico García Lorca Centre, Gösta Brisge, Museum Gösta Serlachius, Mänttä, Finlandia.
Finalist
Nordic Built City Challenge, “Trygve Lies” Public Space in Oslo, Noruega.
Authors: Boris Bezan, Héctor Mendoza y Mara Partida with Mestreswague arquitectes.
Nominee
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture . Mies Van Der Rohe.
Federico García Lorca Centre.
Finalist
Prize Piranesi, with Federico García Lorca Centre . Fundación Piranesi, Eslovenia.
First Prize
Plençnik Prize for Architecture 2015
Joze Plecnik Foundation. Liubljana architecture chamber DAL, Slovenia.
Finalist
FAD architecture Prize 2015
International Category: Gösta Serlachius Museum
FAD architecture Prize 2015
International Category: Gösta Bridge
Nominee
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture . Mies Van Der Rohe.
Gösta Serlachius Museum
First Prize
Wood architecture Prize
(Vuoden Puupalkinto) Wood Council in Finlandia.
First Prize
Premio Nan
Arquitectura y Construcción VIII edición
Best international Architecture studio.
Merit Award
Wood Desing Prize
(Wood Design Building) Canadian Timber Council. International Category.
Finalist
Finlandia Prize for architecture
(Arkkitehtuurin Finlandia- Palkinto) SAFA.
Finalist
YAYA Award
(Young Architect of the Year Awards).
Architect of the year. Building Design Magazine UK. London
Second Prize
Ril Prize
Civil Engineer Association in Finland
First Prize
International Spanish Architecture Prize
CSCAE Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España.
Serlachius Museum Gösta Extension
Ex-aequo
VII edición de los Premios AJAC (Agrupación de Jóvenes Arquitectos de Cataluña).
Lucena Theater Auditorium
First prize
International Competition for the Museum of Art and Culture in Kristiansand, Norway.
Authors: Héctor Mendoza, Mara Partida and Boris Bezan (formerly MXSI) and Mestreswague arquitectes.
First prize
International Competition for the Construction of the Arcos Zapopan Building in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Authors: Héctor Mendoza and Mara Partida.
First prize
International Competition for Trygve Lies Square in Oslo, Norway.
Authors: Héctor Mendoza, Mara Partida and Boris Bezan (formerly MXSI), in collaboration with Mestreswague arquitectes.
First prize
International Competition for the Museo Papalote Iztapalapa, Cd de México.
Authors: Héctor Mendoza, Mara Partida, Boris Bezan, in collaboration with SPRB architects Carlos Rodriguez and Laura Sanchez Penichet
Second prize
UIA International Competition, MOLEWA, for the heart of Huayan Township, China.
Authors: Mara Partida, Héctor Mendoza and Olga Bombac.
First prize
International Competition for Serlachius Museum Gosta Extension, in Mänttä, Finland.
Authors: Héctor Mendoza, Mara Partida and Boris Bezan (formerly MXSI)
Second prize
Tartu City Library and Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia. For Tartu City Council and Estonian Ministry of Culture, Tartu State Agency, Estonia.
Authors: Héctor Mendoza, Mara Partida and Boris Bezan (formerly MXSI)
Third prize
Beton Hala Waterfront competition, for the city of Belgrade State Agency. Belgrade, Serbia.
Authors: Héctor Mendoza, Mara Partida and Boris Bezan (formerly MXSI)
Publications
Numerous projects of Mendoza Partida has appeared in prestigious magazines:
A10, Área, Archis Architectuur Stad Beeldcultuur, Architecture d’aujourd’hui, Ark, Arquine, Arquitectura Viva, AV Monografias, AV Proyectos, Casabella, Competitions Annual 2011, Concept, Domus, Journal of the National Academy of Art, Mark, ON Diseño, Pasajes, Arquitectura y Crítica, Space, The Plan, Wallpaper, Wettbewerbe aktuell.
Our work has also appeared in various books, catalogs and other publications.
N. 59
— Art Museum Extension, Mänttä
N. 118
— Ampliación del Serlachius Museum Gösta. Mänttä, Finland
N. 1
— Transtasis
N. 402
— Pavillon Gösta, musée Serlachius. Mänttä, Finlande
N. 111
— MX_SI, Huttunen-Lipasti-Pakkanen
N. 78
— Centro Federico García Lorca
N. 75
— Compartir la experiencia de la arquitectura. Conversación con MX_SI
— Otro Papalote: Un bosque Abstracto
N. 70
— La casa, el bosque, el jardín y el lago
— Europan 8 ganadores de Iberoamérica
N. 23
— Mexicanos en la Architectural Association de Londres
N. 98
— García Lorca tendrá un centro de Vanguardia
N. 193-194
— MX_SI Centro Federico García Lorca, Granada
N. 45
— Museo Gösta de arte contemporáneo
N. 860
— MX_SI- Centro García Lorca, Granada: Un Concorso Andato a Buon fine
— Bucolic site as museum context
N. 148
— The Extension of The Gösta Contemporary Art Museum
N. 202
— Papalote Children’s Museum
N. 18
— Gösta Serlachius Museum
Vol. 37, N. 8
— Emotional Structures
N. 60
— Avoid the Void
N. 353/345
— Gösta Bridge
N. 333
— Extensión del Museo Gösta de la Fundación Serlachius
N. 146/153
— Gösta Pavilion, Serlachius Museum
N. 76
— Concurso Europan 8 Goteborg
N. 526
— Extension of the Serlachius Museum Gösta
N. 91
— Auditorium Theater Architectural Icon and Urban Landmark. Lucena, Spain
N. 21
— Architects MX_SI model their new extension to Gösta Serlachius Contemporary Art Museum on an abstract forest
N. 11
— Serlachius Museum Gösta in Mänttä
N. 9
— Serlachius Museum Gösta in Mänttä, Finnland. 2014
N. 9
— Serlachius Museum Gösta in Mänttä, Finnland. 2013
N. 8
— Serlachius Museum Gösta in Mänttä, Finnland
Textos de Arquitectura Docencia e Innovación N. 4
Doble Ciego: la limitación en el aprendizaje del proyecto
Fotografía como Arquitectura
Fotografía: herramienta y comunicación. Armando Salas Portugal.
CBB- Papers N. 1
A house is many houses… a city
Gösta’s Pavilion in a Nordic Light
Open Dialogue
Habitar la ciutat i el paisatge: 2006-2014: vuit anys d’aprenentatge
Sobre la bibliografia de suport al taller d’habitatge col·lectiu
El Mundo en las Manos. Creadores Mexicanos en el Extranjero
Mónica Juvera, Héctor Mendoza y Mara Partida. Arquitectos / Barcelona
De Jalisco Nuevos Arquitectos: jóvenes arquitectos de Jalisco
Mara Partida/Héctor Mendoza
Museumsbaute: Wettbewerbe Aktuell Themenbuch N. 11
Serlachius Museum Gösta in Mänttä
Massilia 2003. Anuario de Estudios Lecorbusierianos
Sobre algunos dibujos de Charlotte Perriand para el 24, Nungesser-et-Colli
In vitro el concurso de arquitectura en la ciudad histórica
Centro Federico García Lorca
European Urbanity. Europan 7 and 8
Vortex
Europan 8. European Results, European Urbanity. Europan Europe Secretariat
Vortex
Concurso Internacional de ideas para la creación del Centro Federico García Lorca en la Ciudad de Granada
Finnish Architecture 2016
Catálogo de la bienal de arquitectura finlandesa 2016
UNLAKE CITY
Where there was a lake, now there is a city
Catálogo de la exposición
Plecnikova Odlicja za Leto 2015
Catálogo: Premio Plecnik de la Arquitectura 2015.
From competition to completion
Serlachius Museum “Gosta Pavillion” Mänttä, Finland
EXÉ Architecture Détail Technique
Musée Gösta Serlachius
Ambient N. 114
Most Serlachius Gösta. Mäntta, finska. Arhitekturni studio MX_SI
Palimpesto N. 8
Centro Federico García Lorca, Granada
Concept N. 148
The Extension of The Gösta Contemporary Art Museum”, Mantta, Finlandia
Sydämellisesti Sinun N.2
Göstan Näyttelytilat Kolminkertaistuvat
Beaux Arts magazine
Musées en extension
Documentos de Proyectos Arquitectónicos N. 27-28
La sección en el mat-building
Márgenes arquitectura N. 2
Centro García Lorca
Future Arquitecturas. Concursos Competitions
Parallels. MXSI Architectural studio
La Vanguardia
Nueva Hornada arquitectónica. Doce equipos de jóvenes arquitectos catalanes plantean nuevas ideas y desafíos en tiempos difíciles
Europan 8
Europanic Europan Sweden – A thousand new ideas for our cities
RUM N. 9
Gösta Contemporary Art Museum – RUM
Pregled javnih natecajev Zbornice za arhitekturo in prostor Slovenije 1998-2010
Ureditev obmocja tovarne ROG: V Ljubljani 2008: Mestna obcina Ljubljana
Suplemento del grupo Reforma ITESO 50 años
Hacer Arquitectura en Europa, búsqueda y experimentos
EUROPAN 8 Result book
Europan Suomi Finland · Europan Latvia · Europan Sverige
Neotypo
European Urbanity
Future Arquitecturas. Periódico de Concursos de Arquitectura N. 5
Auditorio de Lucena. Vocación Flexible y Multifuncional
Alzada N. 80
Escenarios Urbanos. Un nuevo referente para la ciudad
Piso. Ciudad al Ras. N. 7
Escenarios Urbanos, Concurso CFGL
Alzada N.79
Un edificio contemporáneo albergará la sede de la Fundación Lorca
MAJA: EESTI ARCHITEKTIDE LIIDU AJAKIRI
Brandspace: disaini uurimine ja toote suunamine
Architektur & Bau Forum N. 221
n-o-m-a-d.org
Tesis de Master bajo la dirección del arquitecto Brett Steele
Brandspace and transtasis
AA News
Formaterial — Análisis y síntesis de organizaciones formales y materiales.
