I am Daniel Díaz Monterrubio (Mexico City, 1986) and I graduated with honours as an architect at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City, complimenting my studies in Lund University, Sweden.
I worked at Haworth Tompkins for about 10 years, where I was actively involved in the studio’s housing projects including the delivery of 2 major council-led housing projects in East London. In London, I have also collaborated with Philip Meadowcroft Architects, with the design and delivery of the QEII Centre and the Creative Therapies building both for Coram, and a masterplan for a school in West London.
In Mexico City, I worked with Fernanda Canales Arquitectura, where I was the studio coordinator and architect, leading a variety of architectural work, as well as lead reseracher, editorial liaison, and curatorial assistant for the book and exhibition Arquitectura en México 1900-2010 (Arquine / Banamex, 2014), which received the Antonio García Cubas - for best art book of 2014 awarded by the INAH. There, I also coordinated an extensive research on Mexican collective housing, published partially as Vivienda colectiva en México (Gustavo Gili, 2017), and Shared Structures, Private Spaces (Actar, 2020). I also collaborated with Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura in several urban and collective actions and research.
As an independent researcher, I have contributed with essays and reviews for Cartha Magazine, Arquine, Arris Journal SAH, and Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura. I have also explored my interests on Mexican architecture through graphic design with #EscuelasPrimarias1932, a revival of the rótulos painted over Juan O’Gorman’s early 1930 schools, exhibited as part of O’Gorman O’Gorman in Casa de Cultura de Azcapotzalco, Mexico City in 2021; as well as Construcciones Modernas, S.A. (Ediciones Hungría, 2019), an homage to Mexico City. My graphic design work has been featured in August Journal’s Mexico City issue; at the Palais de Tokyo as part of Traición’s Polencho series; at MXCD02 at Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura; and at the 2019 Abierto Mexicano de Diseño exhibition.
