ABOUT

Established in 2010, STUDIO FIERRO ARCHITECTURE PLLC is a heterogeneous practice in the fields of architecture, design, urban planning and curatorial work operating in different formats, scales and geographies. We collaborate with disruptive clients, talented makers and professionals to conceive and activate spaces and conversations. We are an international studio that is human centric, with strong presence in New York, São Paulo and Mexico City with 3 main focuses:

PRACTICE: architecture and design work for clients

RESEARCH: curatorial work and experiments in multidisciplinary collaborations through exhibitions and events

PRODUCTS: bespoke furniture and modular systems - from workstations and benches to light fixtures and art installations

STUDIO FIERRO ARCHITECTURE PLLC is registered as both a minority and woman-owned business enterprise.

“Good design should be forceful but not imposing, it should both structure and improve human lives.”

LAURA GONZÁLEZ FIERRO

Laura González Fierro is an architect, curator and educator based in New York City. She was co-curator of the exhibition Walls of Air and co-editor of the homonymous book for The Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, a research project that reflects on the borders of architecture in relation to other disciplines like geography, medicine, anthropology, social sciences, arts, law and politics. The project has been presented in New York, Rome, Beirut, Lima and Mexico City to paint a vivid image of some of the most urgent topics for discussion in contemporary culture. She also co-curated In Situ: Conversations on Architecture and Beyond at the Americas Society, a platform that explores contemporary architectural models and discourses from the Americas prompting a dialogue between the discipline and the world at large. She is a graduate of the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México (2002) and holds a master’s in advanced architectural design from Columbia University GSAPP in New York City (2008). In 2010, she founded FIERRO, a human & non-human centric architecture and design studio with projects in New York, Miami, Mexico City and São Paulo in the fields of architecture, urban planning, design and curatorial work in multidisciplinary collaborations. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP where she teaches a studio on Accessibility for the Advanced Architectural Design and MArch programs. She is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University where she teaches a studio called FARM + LAND, which explores the relationship, interdependency, and connection between the country and the city, the rural and the urban, the natural and the unnatural. The focus is to design the Farm of the Future, where all the different types of capital are considered —from the natural, to the human, the intellectual, the cultural, the economical and social capital entangled into a sustainable operation.

Laura González Fierro is a registered architect in the State of New York as well as Brazil and Mexico and serves on the Board of Directors of both URBEM in Brazil and Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City. Her work has been published by Braun Publishing, LEAF Review, PIN-UP, -NESS, Architect’s Newspaper, Hyperallergic, Bauwelt, Platform, Arquine among many others.

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