Talking Architecture is a series of live interviews hosted by the course Talking Architecture (VIS 2359), integrally produced by students, with the support of Instructor Diego Grass and TA Selwyn Bachus. These events are spin-offs of GSD-sponsored public lectures held during the semester. They intend to extend the conversations between these guests and the GSD community.
In this fourth session, we talked with Debora Mesa, principal of Ensamble Studio. She is a European Licensed Architect and co-founder of WoHo. She learned the profession by combining design with hands-on experiences in quarries, factories, and construction sites, where she arrived to translate innovative ideas into built reality, alongside her partners Antón GarcÃa-Abril and Javier Cuesta. Mesa has been key to the firm’s expansion in the United States and the implementation of an interdisciplinary approach to architecture. She was the Ventulett Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Tech School of Architecture. From 2013 to 2018 served as a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she co-founded the POPlab in 2012. Mesa holds a master’s degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where she also completed her doctorate studies.
This interview was conducted on February 16, 2022, at Gund Hall (photo lab). Students were in control of all aspects of the interview (q&a, staging, editing). The team included: Damian Bolden, Trent Bullion, Gabriela Davila Rivera, Lauren Duda, Paola Foster, Graham Jordan, Yang Sun Lim, Malvin Wibowo, Jessie Xiang, and Oscar Zamora.
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