Gabriela Carrillo

Carillo began her career in 2001 as the project director at the Architecture Workshop Mauricio Rocha until December of 2011. She became a member of the organization, and later, the studio was renamed to Taller Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo. Gabriela provides workshops and lectures around the world, speaking to both undergraduates and postgraduates. Carrillo also teaches the Jorge Gonzales Reyna Workshop at UNAM.[6] From 2001 to December 2011, she was project director at the Mauricio Rocha Architecture Workshop, becoming a partner of it as of 2012, changing the name of the office to Taller | Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo.

As part of her academic career, she has given workshops and conferences in undergraduate and graduate studies. During 2013 she collaborated in the Federico E. Mariscal Extraordinary Chair of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and in the Enrique Manero Peón Extraordinary Chair of the Marist University of Mérida.

In 2015 she participated in the 3rd. Architecture Symposium at the Autonomous University of Yucatán.

She has participated in national and international exhibitions, including Architecture in Mexico, 1900-2010. The Construction of Modernity, at the Amparo Museum (Puebla, Mexico, 2015), Oris House of Architecture, Zagreb, Croatia, and Ibero-American City and Architecture at the Zulia Museum of Contemporary Art (Venezuela, 2014), the IX Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in Rosario (Argentina, 2014), among others. Her work has been published in magazines such as Code, Summa, Domus, ArquiTK and Architectural Digest.

After the September 2017 earthquakes in Mexico, Gabriela Carrillo joined the processes of rehabilitation of buildings and urban spaces as part of her constant commitment to influence the improvement of the quality of life through the spaces that are inhabited. In this regard, Gabriela Carrillo wrote:

“These months have been mainly a space of recognition to understand many things: how communities inhabit, how they relate to each other, what are the ghosts that carry a cultural legacy that is always interesting, but sometimes uncomfortable. We have sought to understand systems, how time has even deformed human relations where political parties, the poorly understood economy and "modernity" have been deteriorating local memory. Without a doubt, after September 19, we had an opportunity to ask ourselves how we can be accomplices and allies in a process that the earthquake only showed. We have to work in silence and with the greatest possible respect, from our own trenches. ”[7] Carrillo has distinguished himself by a critical vision of urban spaces, and the way in which these are part of social processes, thereby trying to propose architectural designs that allow people to enjoy the space and have better interactions.

Gabriela Carrillo Valadez is part of a generation of contemporary Mexican architects where Tatiana Bilbao, Fernanda Canales, Gabriela Etchegaray, Rozana Montiel, Susana García, Clara de Buen, Teresa Tabóas and Sara Topelson also stand out.

Her designs involve sensitivity to context and environment, combining an adequate selection of materials from the regions where his creations are established, as well as incorporating the best available technology.[8]

She has worked in works such as the San Pablo Cultural Center (2013), in Oaxaca, the School of Plastic Arts of Oaxaca (2009) and the Library for the blind and visually impaired of the Ciudadela (2013).[9]

Some of her most important works are:

• School of Plastic Arts and the San Pablo Academic and Cultural Center in Oaxaca (2008)(Taller|Mauricio Rocha+Gabriela Carrillo)
• Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Ciudadela (2013) (Taller|Mauricio Rocha+Gabriela Carrillo)
• Criminal Courts for Oral Trials in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán (2015) (Taller|Mauricio Rocha+Gabriela Carrillo)
• Deans Building School of Commercial Banking (2015) (Taller|Mauricio Rocha+Gabriela Carrillo)
• Cuatro Caminos Photo Museum in Mexico City (2015) (Taller|Mauricio Rocha+Gabriela Carrillo)
• Iturbide Studio (2016) (Taller|Mauricio Rocha+Gabriela Carrillo)

Winner of the 2017 International Women in Architecture Award,[13] the highest international recognition for women in architecture, after designing the complex11 that houses the courtrooms in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, resuming the construction model used by the Purépechas, called Las Trojes.

It has also been recognized with the Silver Medal at the XIII Biennial of Mexican Architecture (2014), with the First Place of the CEMEX Award in the Social Impact category (2013), the Works award, in the Interior Design category, by the Library de Débiles Visuales in Mexico City (2013) and the Silver Medal at the Mexico City Biennial.