Juan Pablo Cepeda

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Juan Pablo Cepeda is a Mexican architect founder and director of Mexico City young based studio CPDA Arquitectos. He received the Gold Medal in the First Mexico City Architecture Biennale in 2013.

Cepeda graduated in Architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana in 2007. In 2011 he cofounded the architecture practice Mocaa Arquitectos, and in 2016 he launched CPDA Arquitectos.

Regardless of the scale or scope, we provide each project with the same high level of rigor and care. We respect the tradition and legacy of good Mexican architecture, in order to achieve this goal, we respectfully look back at the past not leaving by side the historical process and transformations of the context but creating an aesthetic reinterpretation of the elements that identify the site with its present and its future.

Firm recognition includes two medals from the Academy of Mexican Architecture, two honorable mentions from the Young Mexican Architects Biennale, Nominated for the RIBA International Prize (2017), Highly Commented, World Architecture Festival in the small-scale housing category (2018), Winner in the Archmarathon Awards Miami in housingcategory (2020), Winner in the Noldi Schreck Awards, in housing category (2020), Highly Commented, World Architecture Festival, in the housing category (2021),Winner in the IDA Design Awards, in housing category (2021),Winner in the Architecture Masterprize, in housing category (2021) and many more.

Cepeda has been invited to different conferences and participated as a judge, such as Dezeen Awards (2021), Rethinking the Future Awards (2022).