Bob & Sherry Faust Distinguished Lecture
March 26, 2025
4:00 p.m. Lecture
5:30 p.m. Reception
The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center
Distinguished Lecturer
Tatiana Bilbao
CEO & Founder,
Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO
Tatiana Bilbao founded her eponymous studio in 2004 with the goal of integrating research, design, community-driven strategies and responsible construction. This allows her design to be used for diverse circumstances including reconstruction and crisis scenarios. Prior to founding her firm, Bilbao was an advisor to the Secretary of Development and Housing of the Federal District Government in Mexico City.
Bilbao holds a professorship at the Yale School of Architecture and has taught at Columbia University’s GSAPP, Harvard University’s GSD, Rice University, Andrés Bello University in Chile and the Peter Behrens School of Art at the HS in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her work has been published in The New York Times, A + U, Domus, Arquitectura Viva, El País, among others.
In addition, Bilbao was named in 2010 as an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, recognized with the Kunstpreis Berlin in 2012, the LOCUS Foundation Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in 2014, the Marcus Award 2019, Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal 2020, named Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) in 2021, the Richard Neutra Award and AW Architect Award in 2022, the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Award, and the ArpaFIL Award in 2023. Boston Architectural College awarded Tatiana Bilbao an Honorary Doctorate in 2024.