Ana Matatoros
Hi! I’m Ana, Co-founder & creative director of ZIP ESTUDIO®, a digital creative studio based in Madrid.
We’re crafting design solutions with value in the business books and taking a Data-driven approach to creativity.
Hi! I’m Ana, Co-founder & creative director of ZIP ESTUDIO®, a digital creative studio based in Madrid.
We’re crafting design solutions with value in the business books and taking a Data-driven approach to creativity.
I am an architecture graduate from CEPT University, Ahmedabad. I am the co-founder and head architectu of an architecture and design firm:VSG Studio-Volume and Space Genesis. It based in Raipur and Ahmedabad (India)Having done my internship at SJK Architects, Mumbai and an exchange semester at TUM, Germany I bring a fresh, innovative and sensitive approach to all the projects. I focus on understanding the physical, cultural context of the project and introducing creative, out-of-the-box designs solutions. With the aim of creating a thoughtful and critical practice, I ensure that all designs have a strong theoretical base that encourages the team as well as the clients to imagine beyond the constraints of the site and program.
Founding partner of Mazumdar Bravo Architects, Blanca co-directs this architecture and design practice with Udayan Mazumdar. The practice is based between Madrid & Mumbai, its international nature reflecting the personal and professional backgrounds of its founders. Blanca believes beauty is a basic right and through Mazumdar Bravo Architects always strives to find beauty in every space and object that are designed. Showing the beauty of a place is one of the most meaningful and caring things one can do.
Blanca obtained her Master of Architecture Professional Degree from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) in Spain, with a Bachelor degree from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. She studied under the supervision of such renowned professors as Alberto Campo Baeza, Juan Herreros and Lacaton & Vassal. Blanca previously worked with international practices including Tatiana Bilbao Estudio in Mexico City, and Herzog & de Meuron in Basel & London.
Blanca maintains a strong interest in architectural academia, and has been a studio tutor for the Master’s architectural programme at CEPT University in Ahmedabd (India), as well as an invited design critic and lecturer at various prestigious universities, including the Yale School of Architecture (USA), Cambridge University (United Kingdom) and the Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México (Mexico).