Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo

Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo is the cofounder of Pedro&Juana, a studio based in Mexico City. Pedro&Juana works on a variety of projects across creative professions. Pedro&Juana explore the capacity of objects to change their environment through typological transgressions and the indiscriminate use of material, texture, color, placement, or form. Their projects assemble new and unexpected relationships with those that encounter them. Some of them are: Sesiones Puerquito or Little Pig (2012-2014), cooking a suckling as a pretext for better conversation; Archivo Pavilion (2012), an intervention in the gardens of Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura, DF, Mexico; Hellmut (2013), a Table turn Bench turn Table for Gallery 1 of Museo Jumex, DF, Mexico; Casa Reyes (2011-2012), an annex to an ex-colonial house, Merida, Yucatan; Turin 42 (2013-2022), a small apartment complex within and on top of a 1918 house, DF, Mexico; Pavilion of Hotel Palenque is not in Yucatán (2014), a de-differentiated structure at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York, U.S.; With Love from The Tropics (2016-2017), MCA Chicago, U.S.; Le Stalle (2017-) a restoration of two animal stables and a pavilion, Lago Maggiore, Italy; and Hórama Rama (2019), a cyclorama for Queens on top of the courtyard of MoMA PS1, New York, U.S. Galindo has taught at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, The Cooper Union, and GSAPP in NYC and has lectured in multiple cities around the world.

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Classes (Selected)

  • Arch 4101/4102/5101/5115

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

  • ADA Architecture pavilion (2012)
  • Young Architects Program, MoMA PS1 (2019)
  • Along with John of the Thing, a Graham Foundation Grant for a notebook series (2021)

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

  • Wood pavilion, at LABOR Gallery in collaboration with AGO Projects, Mexico City, Mexico (2022)
  • Uteritario, individual exhibition at AGO Projects, a contemporary design gallery in Mexico City, Mexico (2021)
  • Mi Casa es tu Casa, group exhibition at the VDL house, Los Angeles, California (2017)
  • Dear Randolph, Chicago Biennial, IL (2015)

Selected Work

  • Digital rendering of an open outdoor structure whose underside consists of suspended hammocks.

    Hórama Rama by Pedro&Juana, presented as part of the Young Architects Program 2019 at MoMA PS1. photo / Pablo Enriquez, courtesy of MoMA PS1

  • Interior of an illuminated wooden structure that is curved.

    Hórama Rama by Pedro&Juana, presented as part of the Young Architects Program 2019 at MoMA PS1. photo / Mary Kan, courtesy of MoMA PS1

  • A repeating geometric pattern in shades of pink and red.

    Uteritario, AGO Projects. photo / Pedro&Juana

  • Digital rendering of a modern day bed.

    Uteritario, AGO Projects. photo / Rudy Wissenberg

  • interior of a space that is illuminated solely by red and cyan lighting.

    Stereovision, Power Plant. photo / Henry Chan

  • Wooden pavilion in an outdoor setting which contains protruding red / rounded elements.

    Wood Pavilion, LABOR & AGO Projects. photo / Pedro&Juana

  • Exterior view of a 2 story home in a city setting, whose top has been expanded and adapted to contain three floors. The extention has three windows and consists of a red brick overlay.

    T42, Mexico CIty. photo / LGM

  • Ground view looking towards the sky at the center of a structures courtyard.

    T42, Mexico CIty. photo / LGM

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