Maite Garcia-Lascurain (Programme Head) is an architect and alum of the AA. Her work operates at the intersection of built projects, object-based design and academia, approaching architecture as an expanded and playful field working across multiple scales. She is the founder of Taller MGL, a Mexico City–based initiative that bridges practice and academia, fostering collaborative exploration among emerging architects through a transdisciplinary approach to creative processes. Maite is also actively engaged in teaching: she is a design studio professor at Universidad Iberoamericana, and a visiting tutor at CENTRO. In 2024, she was part of the Jóvenes Creadores SACPC cohort (formerly FONCA, a grant programme led by the Mexican Secretary of Culture), working on the project ‘Crónicas Periféricas’.

Jose Ignacio (Naso) Vargas (Programme Head) is a Mexican architect whose work spans practice, research and teaching. He graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana, where he received the Cátedra Blanca Cemex award in 2012, and began his professional formation as an assistant to Ricardo Legorreta. He continued his studies at the Glasgow School of Art and the AA, where he completed an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design at the AA. Naso has collaborated with Tatiana Bilbao and FRAMA Copenhagen, and in 2018 founded his studio in Mexico City. Between 2018–23, he was a studio tutor at the Universidad Iberoamericana, combining pedagogy with an ongoing practice of design and research.

• Active collaboration with cultural institutions
• Reading and interpreting the city through its spontaneous and informal conditions
• Uncovering hidden rhythms within everyday urban situations
• Group-led design and collective making
• Public lecture series featuring architects and artists from across Mexico City
• Collective installation and exhibition

• £120 – Deposit fee (Payable within 48 hours of completing the online application. This fee reserves your place but does not confirm your registration onto the programme)
• £1372 – Full fee (including AA Digital Membership)
• £1049 – Full-time AA students
• £1175 – Melbourne University students

Course fees include making materials, but participants must bring their own laptops and drawing tools. Flights are not included in the cost. Basic accommodation at an artist residency/hostel (approximately 40 minutes from the studio in the city centre), will be provided for international students. As Mexico will be hosting the FIFA World Cup during this period, students who prefer alternative arrangements are encouraged to book early.