COLAR Colectivo de Arquitectura was founded in Mexico City in 2021 by Santiago Constantino, Maximiliano Animas, Mateo Torres and Roberto Marroqu\u00edn. All four trained at the Faculty of Architecture of UNAM and chose to make collaboration more than a working method: a way of understanding the discipline. Paulina Animas joined in 2025. Before founding the collective, its members completed their education with academic stays in Rosario, Madrid, Seville and Berlin. They also worked at practices such as Ignacio Urquiza Arquitectos, Rzero, Dos Puntos Arquitectura, HUBER, TLR-AU, Escobedo Soliz, Talleresque and the studio of Nicol\u00e1s Campod\u00f3nico, on housing, urban and landscape projects across a wide range of scales.<\/p>\n
From that shared trajectory emerges an unusual structure. It is a distributed studio, able to operate across several territories at once and to draw on what the collective itself calls “situated knowledge”. Decisions are made horizontally, through ongoing dialogue between the team, the clients and those who will inhabit the spaces. Its members acknowledge that this process generates a certain friction, and they embrace it as part of the craft: each project is refined through that negotiation until it reaches a more rigorous response, more attentive to place. In the face of the economic, political and socio-environmental constraints of contemporary practice, design is approached as a synthesis of spatial strategy, material system and context.<\/p>\n
Their built work is spread mainly across Mexico City, Chiapas, Hidalgo, Morelos and the State of Mexico. It spans housing, from private commissions to experimental domestic typologies, as well as renovation and restoration, ephemeral architecture, landscape, hospitality and furniture design. Among their most notable projects are Morada de Piedra (2024), in Malinalco; Casa Amona (2025) and Casa Estel\u00ed (2026), in San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas; and the Pabell\u00f3n Cempas\u00fachil (2025) and the recent Casa Caliza (2026), both in Tulancingo. Their work has been published in outlets such as Dezeen, Dwell, Architectural Digest, Arquine, Metalocus and ArchDaily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":73483,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"categorias-profesionales":[1322],"class_list":["post-73485","profesionales","type-profesionales","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorias-profesionales-architects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales\/73485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profesionales"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales\/73485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73486,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profesionales\/73485\/revisions\/73486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorias-profesionales","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorias-profesionales?post=73485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}