g3arquitectos
g3arquitectos, Anonimous | Centro de Desarrollo Comunitario de Tizayuca, Tizayuca, Mexico, 2024. Image credit: Rafael Gamo
The Architectural League’s annual Emerging Voices program spotlights North American architects, landscape architects, and urban designers who have significant bodies of realized work and the potential to influence their field.
Juan Alfonso Garduño Jardon and María de los Ángeles Garduño Jardon of g3arquitectos are 2026 Emerging Voices winners.
Founded in Querétaro in 1997 by Juan Alfonso Garduño Jardón and María de los Ángeles Garduño Jardón (with Armando González Medina, who later departed the practice), g3arquitectos has developed a significant portfolio of civic and residential projects in the central Mexican region. The firm states that architecture and urban design must “actively contribute to the construction of a more humane and balanced living environment.” In addition to built projects, g3arquitectos has led urban strategy research to improve the quality of life in Querétaro’s marginalized communities and hosts Casa de Arquitectura, an architecture conference that connects Querétaro to the international design community.
Projects include:
Tizayuca Town Hall and Central Garden, a civic hub co-designed with Anonimous that centralizes the municipality’s administrative functions, where a continuous portico connects the Town Hall building with a new civic plaza and garden
The Chapel of Cerro del Arnuel, built atop the Cerro del Arnuel mountain, this community gathering space, a collaboration with Taller Activo, was designed for the celebration of the Race of the Crosses hosted by the local Salvador Medina Association
Centro de Desarrollo Comunitario de Tizayuca, a community development center funded by Mexico’s Federal Public Space Improvement Program that integrates several civic facilities and provides essential services to the Tizayuca community
g3arquitectos received the Premio Firenze Entremuros award in 2024 and the Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record in 2019. In 2016, the firm received the League Prize for Young Architects + Designers from The Architectural League.
Juan Alfonso Garduño Jardón is currently a visiting professor at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston. He holds a master’s in urban design and architecture from Harvard University, and studied architecture at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.
María de los Ángeles Garduño Jardon currently teaches at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. She holds a master’s in housing and urban design from McGill University and studied architecture at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.
