FOUNDING PARTNER || CHIEF DESIGN OFFICER

Salvador F. Cortez Hultsch is a mexican architect and design researcher. He currently develops his research while teaching at Universidad Iberoamericana México. Said research topics are focused in new technologies and their relationship with traditional manufacturing techniques, aiming at potentializing human capabilities within a contemporary context, where digital fabrication continues to advance while human processes seem to have stalled.

Salvador recieved his bachelor degree in Architecture and Urbanism at Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City in 2012 and continued his studies until 2014 by aquiring a Master in Design Research from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).

In 2011 he was published in Wired Magazine for his work under Satoru Sugihara in resarch over panelization and computation. A year later he won the Catedra Blanca Award from Cemex for his thesis project punto.Xola. His professional work has been recognized internationally by multiple publications and awards, both while working for firms such as Rojkind Arquitectos or Almazan Arquitectos, as for his own personal work.

Most recentlly his Real State development experience awarded him the Glocal magazine award fo best housing project in Mexico 2021 for the P721 Apartments in Mexico City along with project partners Guillermo Suarez, Jose Kably and Rodrigo Lopez.