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Viviano Villarreal-Buerón holds a bachelor of architecture from Tec de Monterrey in Mexico, with a Masters in Design Theory and Pedagogy from SCI-Arc in los Angeles, where he graduated with distinction and his thesis was awarded the Best Post-Graduate Thesis award for 2019. From 2009-2015 and prior to establishing his own firm Viviano worked for the Pritzker Prize Dutch firm OMA (office for metropolitan architecture) led by architect Rem Koolhaas, from their Hong Kong branch office.

With offices in México and Hong Kong, in 2015 Viviano establishes MASS OPERATIONS, a design studio which understands architecture as a series of operations which when applied to matter generate space. The office’s recent projects include the Headquarter Offices for the Mexican Pharmaceutical company Farmacias del Ahorro in Monterrey Mexico, the Barcode Tulum building, The Stair House and the Chai Wan Artist Loft in Hong Kong.

In addition, Viviano is also in academia, having taught at Hong Kong University and USJ of Macau in Asia. Presently he is adjunct professor of architecture at the Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) and leads the Vertical Studio of “Cátedra MASS” at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL). Viviano is a Chapter member of the National Architecture Academy of Mexico as well as the Architects Institute of the State of Nuevo León, where he has published several articles on architecture and its pedagogy.

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