AIA, CAM-SAM
Co-director, Arditti + RDT Arquitectos; AIA IR Country Representative - Mexico
The work of Arturo Arditti as co-director of Arditti + RDT Arquitectos along with his late father Mauricio and his brother Jorge, has materialized in more than 30 years of professional experience in projects that cover various typologies including Cultural, Residential, Corporate, Religious, Institutional, Governmental, Commercial, Sports and Hospitality buildings.
Arturo Arditti's main activity has been architectural design and in select projects he has managed to combine his creative capacity with his real estate development initiative, creating buildings as a real estate co-developer.
His building designs have been characterized by implementing the most advanced concepts of technology, comfort, sustainability and efficiency, placing them at the level of the best buildings of their kind in the world and have been recognized with more than forty awards in Mexico and abroad.
Arturo graduated in 1987 with an Architecture degree from the Anahuac University. As a student, his "Calacoaya" project was chosen to represent Mexico in the International Exhibition of Architecture Students at Columbia University in New York.
From 1994 to 1996 he participated as a visiting critic at “SCI-Arc” in Los Angeles, California, and in 1995 he headed the first experimental vertical study directed by this institution in Mexico. In 1997 he was professor of"Excellence in Architectural Design", taught at the Anahuac University’s Master’s Degree program.
Arturo has served as a Member of the Board of Graduates of Anahuac University since 2002.
In November 2000, a monograph of his work was published in the book ‘‘Arditti + RDT architects’’, which contains a conjunction of images, drawings and descriptive texts in a compilation of magnificent quality. The book has an international edition in English, published by ‘‘Coedimex-México’’ and ‘‘Rotovision-Switzerland’’, with 10,000 copies distributed abroad. Its Spanish language edition was published by ‘‘McGraw-Hill’’ with 3,000 copies covering Spanish-speaking countries.
In 2012 the book entitled “Museo Memoria y Tolerancia” was published by Arquine, with an Architectural Introduction by Barry Bergdoll, Curator of Architecture at the MoMA in New York.
He has lectured in various settings in Mexico and abroad. His architectural work has been widely published and exhibited in cities such as New York, Madrid, Beijing, Sofia, Cologne, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, Haifa, San Salvador, Santiago de Chile, Barcelona, Prague and Venice, among others.
Under the co-direction of Arturo Arditti, the firm Arditti + RDT Arquitectos has been selected twice to represent Mexico at “Time Space Existence”, a parallel event to the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, considered the most important architecture event worldwide. His first participation was in 2014 at the Palazzo Mora and the second in 2016 at the Palazzo Bembo, the latter directed by Alejandro Aravena (Pritzker Prize 2016).
Arturo's work extends to different organizations.He is currently a Mexican ambassador to the “We Are Water” Foundation in Barcelona, Spain. He has been a jury of the "Travel and Leisure Hotel Awards" and “MexBest Awards” and serves as a member of the Editorial Board of two of the most prominent architecture and design magazines in Mexico: “Glocal”and “México Design”.
AIA IR Latin America - Mexico - Smart Design / Smart Reaction
