We focus on creating value for the city, its people and our clients.
Founding Partners
ARISTA is led by Maria del Carmen Elosua and Jaime Ortiz, who share an interest in transforming cities and seek to positively influence the urban processes that shape them through their work.
In 2014, inspired by their respective practices as urban planners in government and multidisciplinary firms in the US and Mexico, Maricarmen and Jaime founded ARISTA with the goal of establishing a firm capable of leading highly complex urban projects.
Maria del Carmen Elosua
She has extensive experience as an architect, urban designer, and planner. She studied architecture at Tecnológico de Monterrey and holds a degree in architecture and city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. She served as Director of IMPLAN San Pedro Garza García and as Director of Operations in Mexico for Wallace Roberts and Todd in Philadelphia.
Jaime Ortiz
Architect and urban planner with extensive experience, gained through his work as an urban designer at the New York City Department of City Planning and at IMPLAN San Pedro Garza García, where he served as Director and Coordinator. He graduated from Tecnológico de Monterrey and holds a postgraduate degree in urban planning from Columbia University in New York.
Collaborators
Cristina Chapa
Ximena Escalante
Lorena Cebrian
Elena Funes
Oscar Mora
Former Collaborators:
Julia Diaz, Susana Cantu, Brenda Perez, Natalia Kopeikina, Lys Velazquez, Melissa Villegas, Dario Corral, Lalys Rodriguez, Alejandro Mendez, Carolina Villarreal, Gerardo Perez, Daniel Castillo, Sara Montemayor, Airam Moreno, Gerardo Aleman. Bruno Ramirez, Carolina Gutierrez, Lulu Pagola and Sergio Ibarra.
We are interested in creating communities:
- Well-designed and functional.
- Where public space is a main actor.
- In dialogue with their natural surroundings.
- With solid infrastructure support.
- Woven through safe and attractive pedestrian environments where children and the elderly can move around without the need for a car.
- With mass and alternative transportation connecting them to other communities and the rest of the city.
- Promoting inclusion.
Our clients seek us for our ability to advance complex projects through multidisciplinary strategies:
- Urban, landscape, architectural, and infrastructure design.
- Feasibility – legal, political, financial, and physical.
- Identity and positioning.
- Planning – short, medium, and long term.
