Felipe Mesa

Felipe Mesa is a Founder member and Principal in PLAN: B Architects, a design practice based in Medellin, Colombia. During the last 15 years, he has built more than 50 buildings, with different programs and scales: public spaces, sports, and educational buildings, hotels, offices, houses, and art installations.

Mesa is an Assistant Professor in The Design School (Architecture Program) at the Arizona State University. Before this appointment, Mesa was an Assistant professor in the architecture programs of some Universities in Colombia: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Medellin; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) in Bogota, Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota; and he was Ivan Smith Eminent Visiting Professor at the University of Florida School of Architecture (SoA) - 2014.

Mesa understands the architectural project as a provisional pact, a permeable configuration, and a positive expression of the eco-social constraints surrounding us. His projects and research topics related to the practice and teaching of architecture have been published in 4 books by Mesaestandar Editors: Partial Agreements (2005), Awaiting Architecture (2007), Permeability (2013), Architecture in Reverse (2017); and one book by AR+D Publishing: 12 Projects in 120 Constraints (2021). Mesa is part of "Architecture Archipelago," a group of Colombian architects that studies the connection between design and new living ways in Latin America. This collective has three books published by Mesaestandar Editors: Architecture Archipelago I - 2010, Architecture Archipelago II (Set Theory)- 2016, and Architecture Archipelago III (Architecture is not what it seems / Architecture is a habit) – 2020.