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 About 

Gabriela Carrillo is an architect from Mexico and was born May 5th, 1978 (40). She was educated at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and obtained an honorable mention in 2001 when she graduated. Starting in 2003 she has taught at the UNAM in the same workshop where she studied, the Jorge González Reyna Workshop where she works under the principles of respect, creativity, discipline and originality, in order to contribute in the education of future architects.

 Awards and Design 

In the year 2017, Gabriela received the Women in Architecture Award along with the Architect of the Year. Architect of the Year recognizes design excellence in a single built project completed in 2016. Judges that gave Carrillo this award said "they were impressed with Gabriela Carrillo’s ability to design flexible spaces, and work with light and shadow to such compelling effect,”. (archinet.com) Carrillo was commended for her work in local communities for practicing democratic and sustainable designs. These communities are less fortunate and with the help of Carrillo, they have been given views of hope in the past through her projects and support. She bases her ideas on balancing the ideas of impactful designs and existing structures. For example, when Carrillo designed The Criminal Courts for Oral Trials in Pátzcuaro, Mexico, she aimed to bring influences from ancient walled cities using the wall as something that could be understood and the interior space being used as a place of confinement and restriction. This project was a main reason she was nominated and won the Architect of the Year Award. She has worked in unison with Mauricio Rocha in order to design and develop her main ideas of architecture in local communities found throughout Mexico.