Mauricio Rocha Iturbide is Mexican, founder of the Taller de arquitectura he shares since 2012 in partnership with Gabriela Carrillo.
As an architect he has carried out both public and private works, alternating with the realization of ephemeral architectural interventions in art exhibitions, as well as museography and artworks.
He has been a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM, the Universidad Anáhuac and the Universidad Iberoamericana, as well as at universities in the United States and Latin America.
He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Arts. He has received the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) 2023, for his project for the remodeling and expansion of the Anahuacalli Museum by Diego Rivera and Juan O’Gorman around 1940, in Mexico City.