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. PLANB's work has been selected and exhibited in various venues: Colombian Architecture Biennial, Ibero-American Architecture Biennial, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Biennial of the Americas, Pamplona Latin American Architecture Biennale; and has been published and disseminated in specialized magazines and digital websites: A+U, Architectural Review, Lotus, Domus, Abitare, Arquitectura Viva, Archdaily, Architizer, Designboom.
Mesa is an assistant professor in The Design School (Architecture Program) at the Arizona Â鶹´«Ã½ 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 four books by Mesaestandar Editors: Acuerdos Parciales (2005), Awaiting Architecture (2007), Permeability (2013), Architecture in Reverse (2017); one book by AR+D Publishing: 12 Projects in 120 Constraints (2021); and one book by ORO Editions: Design Build Studios in Latin America (2023).