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Mónica Juvera
Graduated in architecture at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Querétaro campus, with a master’s degree in landscape architecture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. In 2007 she was awarded the Young Creator grant in México. In 2005 co-founded the architectural studio MX-SI after winning her first important international competition, the “Federico Garcia Lorca Centre” in Granada, remaining there until 2011. Between then and the establishment of BAX studio in 2017, she combined the practice of architecture with the development of entrepreneurial projects around design and education in creative and critical thinking through art. Her architectural works were recognized with several international publications and prizes as the nominations for the Mies van der Rohe and Plecnik awards in 2016. In the field of design, she signed two utility patents. In 2018 she was a visiting professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Texas at Austin.
Boris Bežan
Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana with a master’s degree in architecture and contemporary culture at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He established Bax studio in 2017 as part of the continuation of MX_SI architectural studio, which he co-founded in 2005 after winning his first important international competition “Federico Garcia Lorca Center” in Granada. In cooperation with partners, he has won several international important architectural open competitions such as Gösta Pavilion Serlachius Museum in Finland, Papalote museum in Mexico, Rog Cultural center in Slovenia, and Kunstsilo museum in Norway. His works were published and recognized worldwide and he received several important prizes that confirm the quality of his realizations like the Plečnik award in 2014 and the Spanish international architecture prize award in 2013. In addition to his architectural practice, he is involved in architectural education teaching at the Faculty of Architecture in Maribor. In 2018 he was a visiting professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Texas at Austin.
Practice Ideology
BAX studio is an international Barcelona-based practice directed by Boris Bežan and Mónica Juvera. Together with their team and a network of collaborators in different countries, they develop works whose quality and originality have been recognised by renowned international awards. BAX studio brings a reflective nature to architecture and centers its design process on finding, for each project, an idea that serves as a catalyst for solutions that are at once unique and effective.
This approach gives their architecture its coherence and originality, while their proven technical reliability enables them to work at a wide variety of scales. Spatial richness, dialogue with pre-existing features and feedback between architecture and public space are the inherent common criteria of their work.
