NAMo
Natali Aguirre Montaña


Art+Design
Projects ++
  1. Portal to Jaguarity
  2. Cosmic Implications of Food from Abya Yala
  3. Wet Matter
  4. The Dust under the bed
  5. Don’t call me water, call me Teresa
  6. The Real and the Magical
  7. Rethinking Conquest: And Anti-Amazon Conversation
  8. Tracing the 735-kilometres
  9. Kitchen Series

    Explorations++
    1. Mycelium+Corn

    Architecture+SpatialDesign
    Spatial Design++
    1. Soils’ Exhibition
    2. DAE Final Exam
    3. ALTA Pasticceria
    4. PitStop Cafe & Pub 
    5. Bakery Kiosk
    6. Enseres Showroom

    Architecture ++
    1. SER Sustanible Living
    2. La Esperanza Home
    3. El Volador Home
    4. Otás Home
    5. Santa Marta Home
    6. CADN Childhood Center
    7. Gibraltar Velodrome


    CV++
    Portfolio++


    Info++
    Natali Aguirre Montaña is a Rotterdam-based designer and artist working across disciplines. With a background in architecture, spatial design, and interior design, her interdisciplinary practice bridges research, decolonial and feminist theory, and material exploration. Trained in Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, her work ranges from tufting to bioplastics, from ceramics to photography, and from textiles to spatial installations.

    Her work has been exhibited at the Van Abbemuseum with her project Portal to Jaguarity (2024), and at Vienna Design Week in the collaborative exhibition Don’t Move the Fountain (2024).

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    CV



    EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

    • Contextual Design 
      Master of Arts (MA) in Fine Arts and Design
      Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands
      2025

    • Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch)
      Piloto de Colombia University, Colombia
      2015

    CURATORIAL & COMMITTEE INVOLVEMENT

    • Committee Member 
      Host-Photographer-Curator
      Lecture Series Committee 2024-2025
      Design Academy Eindhoven 

    EXHIBITIONS
    • Portal to Jaguarity
      Soils´ Exhibition x DAE - Van Abbemuseum
      Dutch Design Week 2024
      Eindhoven, NL

    • Don´t Move The Fountain
      De Fabriek - Dutch Design Week 2024
      Eindhoven, NL

    • Don´t Move The Fountain
      Platform - Vienna Design Week 2024
      Vienna, AT

    WORK EXPERIENCE

    • Freelance Architect/Designer 
      NAMo - Natali Aguirre Architect
      2018 - Present

    • Co-founder / Creative Director
      Seres Collective
      2020 - 2024

    • Design Manager
      Arquint Company
      Feb 2022 - Nov 2022

    • Senior Architect
      Alejandro Rogelis Arquitecture
      2015 - 2020 

    RECOGNITIONS

    • Winner – 1st prize / 2018
      Architect , Competition “Centro Felicidad Chapinero - Un espacio para la cultura, recreación y deporte” Alejandro Rogelis Team

    • 3rd prize / 2018
      Architect, International competition “Espacio de Memoria Y Reflexión, Medellín”
      Alejandro Rogelis Team

    • Honourable mention / 2017
      Architect, competition “Centro Deportivo, Recreativo y cultural Parque Metropolitano El Tunal”
      Alejandro Rogelis Team

    • 3rd prize / 2013
      Architect, competition “Design de Colegios y un Equipamiento Cultural en Bogotá D.C - La Felicidad”
      Alejandro Rogelis Team

    COURSES

    • Sustainable Development Goals For Latin America And The Caribbean
      University of Los Andes (Colombia) - 2020

    • Seeing Through Photographs
      Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) - 2020

    SOFTWARES
    • Architectural drawings, 3D modelling, Construction detail drawings (Revit)
    • Rendering (V-Ray + 3dmax, Lumion 3d), 3d models (Sketchup), CAD files (AutoCAD)
    • Postproduction & Infographics (Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere)

    LANGUAGES

    • Spanish –Mother tongue
    • English - C1
    • French - B1
    • Dutch - Started