TANIA TOVAR TORRES
Tania Tovar Torres is an architect, curator, and writer. Her practice explores creative media and formats in architectural exhibition and production, specializing in archival and documentary research. She currently resides in Mexico City, where she is the co-founder and director of Proyector, a curatorial platform and exhibition space dedicated to promoting emerging voices of architectural research. Tania is a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana, a scholarship recipient of the FONCA “Young Creators” program, works as a consultant for the German Cooperation Agency for Sustainable Development in Mexico, and collaborates in the management and development of cultural projects with multiple national groups and institutions. and international. She was commissioned as curator of the Architecture Pavilion of the Mexican Design Open in its 2019 and 2020 editions. She previously worked at the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, and at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery in New York. Tania is an architect from the National Autonomous University of Mexico; studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Stuttgart, Germany; and holds a Master’s in Critical, Conceptual, and Curatorial Practices in Architecture from Columbia University.
JUAN CARLOS ESPINOSA CUOCK
Juan Carlos Espinosa Cuock, is co-founder and director of research at Proyector, Technical Manager at the Institute of the National Fund for Housing for Workers INFONAVIT, and professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana. As an urban planner, he has developed his research at the Institute for Urban Futures in Montreal, and the Open-Output Foundation in New York, and was a member of the Center for Sustainable Design Strategies of the Pratt Institute. In Mexico, he has been a consultant for UN-Habitat and coordinator of the Federal Program for the Rescue of Public Space of the Ministry of Social Development. Juan Carlos is an architect by training and has a master’s degree in architectural design from the National Autonomous University of Mexico; a master’s degree in analysis, theory, and history from the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Madrid; a master’s degree in architecture and urban design from the Pratt Institute in New York, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Architecture at UNAM and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Proyector
Proyector is a Mexico City-based curatorial platform founded by Tania Tovar Torres and Juan Carlos Espinosa Cuock in 2018, dedicated to promoting emerging voices in contemporary research in architecture. Proyector is committed to fostering new critical, theoretical, and historical strategies and tools on space issues. During the three seasons of the annual program, researchers (and research groups) are invited to work together with the Proyector curatorial team in a collaborative manner, seeking the projection of their research in multiple formats: exhibitions, publications, workshops, performances, talks, and seminars among others.
Proyector is located in the Industrial Colony, a neighborhood located in the center-north of Mexico City, a product of modern expansions driven by the progress of the national industry, seeking to reestablish old spatial and historical relationships with the center, in the midst of a new and growing cultural context. Proyector seeks to promote the decentralization of the cultural scene by fostering a discourse of integration between different practices, themes, interests, languages, and formats around architecture, promoting the necessary exchange of ideas between the various areas in the city and their recognition.