Enrique Norten is Principal and founder of TEN Arquitectos (Taller de Enrique Norten Arquitectos, S.C.) with offices in New York City and Mexico City.
Born in Mexico City, 1954, he currently resides in New York City.
He studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) in Mexico City and Cornell University, New York, beginning his professional practice in Mexico City in 1981 as a partner of Albin y Norten Arquitectos S.C.
Enrique Norten was granted the first “Mies van der Rohe” award for architecture in 1998 for Latin America. In 1999, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
He was a founding member of the editorial board at Arquitectura magazine and was a member of the jury for the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition in New York City.
He has also held the O’Neal Ford Chair in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, the Lorch Professor of Architecture Chair at the University of Michigan, and the Elliot Noyes Visiting Design Critic at Harvard University.
Enrique Norten was Professor of Architecture at UIA from 1980 until 1990, and served as a visiting professor at Cornell University, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Sci-Arc, Rice University, Columbia University and Yale School of Architecture (Eero Sarinien Visiting Professor).
He currently holds the Miller Chair at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and won the competition to develop a conceptual design for the proposed USD 250 million Guggenheim Museum in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Enrique Norten was a member of the Holcim Awards jury for region Latin America in 2005 and a member of the Holcim Awards global jury in 2006 and 2009. He was a member of the Concluding Panel Discussion at the 3rd International Holcim Forum 2010 in Mexico City and has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction since its inception in 2004.
[last updated 18-Aug-10]