DAVID ORTEGA-MARTÍNEZ

@arqdave

Mexican architect with a postgraduate degree in design and urban planning from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He completed his studies in Mexico, Belgium, the United States, and Sweden.

He has been invited to present his work at the universities of Medellín, Gothenburg, Riga, Prague, Alicante, and Glasgow. He is a visiting professor at the University of Umeå, Sweden, and an international professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey. 

In the world of art and culture, he has linked his urban-architectural practice with representation and graphic language. This has led him to co-curate the exhibition Trazos Ciclistas at Archivo Arquitectura y Diseño in 2015, and to write articles for magazines such as DOMUS and El Fanzine. Finally, he exhibited the project “Menos Cajones, Más Ciudad” as part of Design Week CDMX, of the World Design Capital in 2018.

His two most recent artistic projects are:

‘2022’ which consists of a DAILY DIGITAL DRAWING (DDD), without specific references to anything or any place. It arises from the personal need for the continuous act of drawing. It is made without preliminary sketches, with

Adobe Illustrator

, on a

MacBook Pro without a mouse , only with the trackpad. It was drawn from January 1 to December 31, 2022, in Acapulco, Mexico City, Puerto Vallarta, Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Córdoba, Alicante, Valencia, Porto, London, Umeå, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, and Abu Dhabi. 

'2023' consists of a WEEKLY DIGITAL DRAWING (WDD). It represents one of the many possibilities of imagining some of the drawings from ‘2022’ as military axonometries. They have no scale or context. There is no 3D digital model. They are "hand-drawn" in

Adobe Illustrator

(points+lines+planes). 

He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Advanced Architectural Projects at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he researches street design and its relationship with contemporary culture.