ABOUT US
VERTEBRAL is an architecture and landscaping studio founded in Mexico City by Elias Kalach and Teddy Nanes in 2016.
The approach to projects always follows the same logic, despite being in different social, political and geographical contexts. The studio is not governed by an aesthetic ideal or by a geometric predisposition, but by a search that arises from the exercise of observation, in order to approach the understanding of a site and a series of circumstances that give input and guidelines to architecture. . Vertebral understands architecture as the act of intervening in a site to create space through walls and slabs, but also through bushes, herbs and trees.
Vertebral uses primary materials in its architecture. Concrete, steel, stone and wood are the resources that with a wide range of geometries build the imaginary of the team, its models and its buildings.

AWARDS
First Place
Noldi Schreck Award 2022 | Reconversion of Spaces
AZ Awards 2021 | Social Good | Azure Magazine (Canada)
Small Architecture 2021 | Architecture Masterprize
Firenze Entremuros 2021 (Reforma Newspaper) | Ephemeral Architecture
Premio Obras Cemex 2019 | Residential Housing | Casa Erasto
Opera Prima | Íconos del Diseño | Architectural Digest Mexico
Tercera Bienal de Jóvenes Arquitectos 2019 | Residential Housing
Second Place
Premio Obras Cemex 2019 Internacional | Residential Housing
Third Place
Noldi Schreck Award | Multifamily Housing
4to Premio Península de Arquitectura e Interiorismo 2020 | AAI
Honorable Mention
Best Young Firm | Architizer A+ Awards 2023
Centro de Cultura Ambiental Chapultepec 2020 | Mexican Ministry of Culture
Finalist
Oscar Niemeyer Award for Latin American Architecture | 20 Finalists Selection
Firenze EntreMuros (Reforma Newspaper) | Finalist for Best Commercial and Corporate Interiors 2019
Premio Obras | Finalist for Work of the Year 2019
Blueprint Awards 2019 (UK) | Finalist in Best Non-Public Project: Residential
The Plan Award 2019 (Italia) | Shortlist
Jury
CHANGE ART 2022 | Bucaramanga, Colombia
VERTEBRAL
Elias Kalach
Teddy Nanes
Team
Marco Agonizante
Alberto Bou
Giovanna Enríquez
Enrique Gonzalez
Caroline Husson
Daniela López
Luisa Pedraza
Isaac Penhos
Jose Martínez
Leticia Matsuda
Edgar Ruiz
Fernando Zúñiga
Previous Collaborators
Alejandra Alcázar
Fernanda Angulo
Valeria Álvarez
Héctor Batres
Nino Canun
Sabrina Canun
Rodrigo Gamboa
Santiago García
Fernando Gómez
Jacqueline Hale
Pedro López
Elsa Mendoza
Isaac Michan
Cesar Mondragon
Francisco Parra
Juan Agustín Rivera
Alejandra Rojo
Eduardo Suárez
María Fernanda Tinajero
Habid Valdes