Tatiana Bilbao founded her own studio in 2004 with the aim of integrating research, design, community-directed strategies and responsible construction. She was Assistant to the Secretary of Development and Housing of the Federal District of Mexico City, and during this period sat on the city’s Urban Development Consulting Board. Bilbao is currently a lecturer at the Yale University Architecture School and has taught classes at Columbia University’s GSAPP, Harvard University’s GSD, Rice University, the Andrés Bello University of Chile and the Peter Behrens Art School of the HS of Dusseldorf in Germany. His work has been published in The New York Times, A+U, Domus, Arquitectura Viva, El País, among others. In February 2025, she was named Honorary Member of the Instituto Americano de Arquitectos. In the last five years, Bilbao has received the 2020 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal; the Honorary Award from the Canadian Royal Institute of Architecture in 2021; the Richard Neutra Award and the AW Architect award in 2022; the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize and the ArpaFIL Prize in 2023; and an Honorary Doctorate from the Boston Architectural College in 2024.
