MEIR LOBATON CORONA, Architect MSc.AAD [b. Mexico City, 1974]
Meir Lobaton Corona received an Architecture degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 2002 and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University GSAPP in 2007. As a CONACYT Scholar, he graduated from Columbia with Honors for Excellence in Design, and was a recipient of the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Design Prize. Meir has taught architectural design studios at Columbia University and Universidad Iberoamericana and has been an invited critic at UANAM and Universidad Anahuac.
After collaborating with several architectural firms, in 2008 he founded Bureau MLC, a multidisciplinary think tank engaged in a search for new discursive formulas and design strategies aimed towards the dilution of existing boundaries between Art, Architecture and other creative disciplines. He is currently working on the completion of a project for a residential skyscraper in Mexico City, illustrating a poetry book, and collaborating with several renowned artists in the design and production of site-specific interventions.