Wonne Ickx

Wonne Ickx studied Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Ghent, Belgium, and Urban Studies at the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEMET) in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 2006, he founded PRODUCTORA in Mexico City, together with Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya, and Victor Jaime. PRODUCTORA has received many awards, including the Oscar Niemeyer Prize for Latin American Architecture and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Architecture (MCHAP). Ickx has taught architecture at Harvard, IIT, UCLA, RICE, Princeton, Columbia, and several universities in Mexico. He is cofounder of LIGA, Space for Architecture, an independent platform in Mexico City that promotes emergent Latin American architecture since 2011.

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

  • Adaptive reuse
  • Architectural design
  • Architectural history
  • Architectural practice 
  • Architectural theory

Classes (Selected)

  • Spring 2025 Elective Course
  • ARCH 3819 COMBINED-COMEET
  • Special Topics in the History of Architecture and Urbanism

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

  • Simon Architecture Prize — Living Places for Teopanzolco Cultural Center, Barcelona, Spain, (2018)
  • Oscar Niemeyer Award for Latin American Architecture for Teopanzolco Cultural Center by ISAAC BROID + PRODUCTORA (2018)
  • Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) for emerging architecture, to the Pavilion on the Zocalo, Chicago, Illinois, USA, (2016)

Publications (Selected)

  • 2G N.69 PRODUCTORA (Monograph), Editorial Gustavo Gili, Digital Edition, Spain, (2014) (Texts by Jesus Vasallo, Kersten Geers, Mark Lee and Mario Ballesteros)
  • Being the Mountain: PRODUCTORA, Actar Publishers & the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture Press, (2020) (Texts by PRODUCTORA, Wonne Ickx, Carlos Bedoya, Frank Escher, Veronique Patteeuw and Jesus Vasallo)
  • PRODUCTORA, Some Realized Projects 2014-2022, Roma Publications, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (2023)

Selected Work

  • A large building featuring glass walls, set against a backdrop of the sky with clouds, resembling a greenhouse.

    Rooftop PRIM, PRODUCTORA, Mexico City, 2020

  • A high angle view of a building nestled within a residential area, showcasing an aerial perspective of the suburb with trees surrounding the urban design.

    Teopanzolco Cultural Center, PRODUCTORA + Isaac Broid Cuernavaca, 2017

  • A building featuring red railings, surrounded by trees and under a clear sky. The area is empty, showcasing the architecture and floor of the property.

    Rooftop PRIM, PRODUCTORA, Mexico City, 2020

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