Wonne Ickx
PRODUCTORA - Mexico City + New York
Lecture: "Previous Condition"
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 | 6:00PM | ARCH 132 DF Pray Lecture Theatre
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Founding partner of , Wonne Ickx is an Architect and Civil Engineer from , Belgium, and holds a Master鈥檚 degree in Urban Studies from the . He currently resides in New York, leading the firm鈥檚 international projects. These include a net-zero building for the Houston Endowment offices in Texas, Co-Housing in Denver, Adaptive Reuse in Santiago, Chile, and residential projects in Los Angeles, St. Louis, and New York. In academia, he has over 20 years of experience working with institutions such as Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Berkeley, Rice, UCLA, and IIT, among others.
Wonne will discuss the work of PRODUCTORA, including work within existing buildings and historically layered contexts. PRODUCTORA麓s work is distinguished by an interest in precise geometries, legible projects with limited gestures, and a search for the material and spatial solutions that make timeless buildings. PRODUCTORA is an architecture studio founded in 2006 in Mexico City by Abel Perles (1972, Argentina), Carlos Bedoya (1973, Mexico), Victor Jaime (1978, Mexico) and Wonne Ickx (1974, Belgium). In 2024 Natalia Bad铆a (1992, Mexico City) joined the team as an associate, and Abel Perles left the firm.
The firm has received the Young Architects Forum (2007) and the Emerging Voices (2013) from the and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for emerging architects (2016). Their first larger cultural-infrastructure project, the Teopanzolco Cultural Center, received amongst other recognitions, the American Architecture Prize in Cultural Architecture (2017), the Oscar Niemeyer Award for Latin American Architecture (2018), the First International Prize at the Biennial of Architecture of Quito (2018), the Simon Architecture Prize - Living Places (2018), and a Special Mention at the Rogelio Salmona Latin American Architecture Award (2024).
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