Saidee Springall (Mexico City, 1968) is an architect from the Universidad Iberoamericana and holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

In 2002, she founded a|911 with Jose Castillo. The firm has designed and constructed housing, cultural, educational, infrastructure, commercial, and public space projects for both the public and private sectors.

Previously, she worked with Rafael Moneo on the project for the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in Madrid, Spain, and with Sasaki and Associates in Watertown, MA.

She has been a Conacyt fellow from 1993 to 1995 for the development of her graduate studies and a Mexico Foundation fellow at Harvard, was selected in 1996 for a project within the Jovenes Creadores program of FONCA. She was selected twice to develop projects for CONACULTA National Endowment for the Arts’ artists program. First with Regulation and Exception from 2009 to 2012, an analysis of possible transformations in rules and projects for the contemporary city; and later with The City and its Forms from 2016 to 2019, a speculative exercise for the development of alternatives on new (and old) forms of urban growth. In 2017, she was the winner of the Richard Rogers Fellowship.

Her work has been exhibited in various national and international settings, such as Mexico City Dialogues at the Center for Architecture in New York, NY, the Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial, the Rotterdam Biennial, and the Venice Biennial, among others. Likewise, she has given lectures at various Mexican universities, and her work has been published in Praxis Journal, 2G, Monocle, AD, Wallpaper, The New York Times, and Reforma newspaper.

Saidee has given lectures at various Mexican and foreign universities, most recently at the University of New Mexico and USC in Los Angeles, California.

She has been a judge in various competitions and processes, including being a tutor in the FONCA Young Creators program, the National System of Creators, the KeObra competition of Cemex, and the Emerging Voices prize of the Architectural League of NY in 2022.

Jose Castillo (Mexico City, 1969) is an architect and urban planner living in Mexico City. Castillo holds a degree in architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana, as well as a Masters in architecture and a Doctor of Design degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

In 2002, he founded a|911, an architecture and urbanism firm, along with Saidee Springall. His architectural work and writings have been published in Mexico and abroad, including in Praxis Journal, Bomb, 2G, Domus, Arquine, Geographical UK, Monocle, AD, Wallpaper, The New York Times, Architecture, Monument, and Architectural Record. Recently, his work was featured in the book Shaping Cities, edited by Ricky Burdett and Philipp Rode and published by Phaidon. He has also contributed writings to books such as The Endless City, Reinventing Construction, La Casa Latinoamericana Moderna, La arquitectura Importa, and Potato Plan Collection.

In 2017, he was the winner of the Richard Rogers Fellowship and has been a member of the CONACULTA National Endowment for the Arts’ artists program twice for his projects on Retroactive Urbanism: Transforming the Informal Periphery and Food, Cooking and City. He has been a fellow of Conacyt and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard.

He is a member of the editorial board of Arquine magazine, the advisory board of LSE Cities and Urban Age at the London School of Economics, and was a member of the advisory board of the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT and the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft from 2013 to 2019.

He has given lectures at various institutions, including universities in the United States such as Harvard, Tulane, Princeton, Berkeley, USC, and Texas A&M; museums such as MoMA, the New Museum, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture (NY); Casa Encendida (Madrid); the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Deutsche Architectur Zentrum in Berlin, among many others. Castillo has been a professor of Urbanism at CENTRO (Mexico City) and a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where he has intermittently taught since 2011.

He has been a judge in various international competitions, including the Progressive Architecture Awards (2008), Sudapan Endless Strips Competition (2008), the Tallera de Siqueiros, the Pavilion for the Museum of Eco, and the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award, Mexico City, the latter two in 2010. Recently, he was a member of the jury for Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayor’s Challenge Latin America and the MCHAP, Mies Crown Hall America’s Prize.