Gerardo Broissin


Gerardo Broissin is a Mexican architect.

Biography

Gerardo Broissin was born in Mexico City in 1975. In 2007, the New York magazine Architectural Record awarded him the Design Vanguard Prize as One of the 10 Most Vanguard Architects in the world. Broissin leads the BROISSINarchitects workshop office in Mexico City, which he founded in 2007.
He graduated in 2000 with honors from the Anáhuac University Architecture School after being an exchange student in the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He studied with Agustín Hernández Navarro for two years, and later worked professionally with Fernando Romero, as well as Federico Soriano. Since 2007 he has been a professor at the .
In 2016, Broissin was selected as jury of the WAN Awards for the Performance Spaces category in London, which he won in 2015. In 2014, he delivered a lecture at the Texas A&M Architecture Lecture Series, and a few years before at the College of Art and Design and Built Environment of Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design in England.
His work has been published in the five continents; it is characterized for the development and contribution of innovative proposals in the solution of every project, comprising an extensive range of forms, textures and ideologies
Author of the Grafiti DF book, which shows the evolution of graffiti in Mexico City since its origins.

Significant projects