Felipe Orensanz is a Mexico City-based architect and urbanist. His projects and writings have been published in journals and magazines such as Pidgin, Architect, CLOG, MONU, Displacements, Ground Up, Horizonte, Lunch, Studio, Bracket, the Cornell Journal of Architecture, Critical Planning, and INSITE Journal. He is the co-author of the award-winning book Ciudad Independencia/Seguro Social and a member of Mexico’s National Endowment for the Arts.
His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and UNAM’s Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, among others. He has taught and lectured throughout Latin America and the United States, and has been invited as guest critic at Princeton, U.C. Berkeley, Washington University, University of Michigan, Kean University, and The City College of New York. Other activities include fellowships and residencies at HKW Berlin, The People’s Forum, New School’s Institute for Critical Social Inquiry, Art Omi, and the Institute for Public Architecture. Felipe studied architecture at UABC University and completed both a graduate program in housing and a master’s degree in urbanism at Mexico’s National University (UNAM), where he was awarded the prestigious Alfonso Caso Medal.
At MacDowell, Orensanz worked on two forthcoming book projects, both scheduled for publication in 2026 by the renowned Mexican publisher Arquine. The first, Ciudad profunda: la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México a través de su infraestructura, offers an in-depth study of infrastructure in Greater Mexico City and was made possible by two research and publication grants from Mexico’s National Endowment for Arts and Culture. The second, Villa Floresta, will inaugurate the Transborder Living book series—a collection of project-specific monographs co-edited with Marcel Sanchez and the Transborder Association of Architectural Education—dedicated to examining housing ecologies along the U.S.–Mexico border.
