Debora Mesa

Débora Mesa is a European Licensed Architect and principal of the avant-garde architectural firm Ensamble Studio. She learned the profession by combining design with hands-on experiences in quarries, factories and construction sites, where she arrived to translate innovative ideas into built reality, alongside her partners Antón García-Abril and Javier Cuesta. Their works have been showcased and awarded by some of the most prominent cultural and scientific institutions, from MOMA NY, RIBA or MIT, to the Financial Times, TED and Netflix. Mesa is committed to sharing ideas and cultivating synergies between professional and academic worlds through teaching, lecturing and researching. She is the Ventulett Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Tech School of Architecture and from 2013 – 2018 served as a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she co-founded the POPlab in 2012. Mesa holds a master’s degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where she also completed her doctorate studies.

Mesa is a co-founder and leads sustainability, research and product development.