Juan Benavides is an architect whose work encompasses families of projects in no particular order of importance, including drawings, buildings, paintings, music, and films. At present, he is based in the Netherlands mostly making films on contemporary architecture and teaching at The Berlage.

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FEATURED PROJECT
At the Garden’s Pace

FIVE RECENT PROJECTS
House in Veľký Klíž
Brillhut
Pressed & Polished, The Berlage
Eighteen Drawings of a Golf Course I
Rain Harvest Home

UPCOMING SHORT FILMS
Casa de Barro, Amealco
Casa Copas, Valle de Bravo
La Fábrica de Hielo, Mexico City
The Tree House, Austin
Olancha Drive, Los Angeles
The Box, Los Angeles
Trollhus, Norden
Staggered Cabin, South Lake Tahoe
Trestle Cabin, Decatur Island
Wembury Mews, London
The Missing Room, Alto Monferrato
The Don Quixote Sculpture Hall, Amsterdam

BUILDINGS
House in San Jerónimo III
House in Veľký Klí
House in Søfteland
House in San Jerónimo II 
House in San Jerónimo I
Weekend House in Valle de Bravo

DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS
Studies for a Theater Play I
Eighteen Drawings of a Golf Course I
A Labyrinth with its Own Copy to Attempt a Solution
One Labyrinth with Two Walls, Three Columns, and Four Exit
Four Views from a Restaurant Table
Twenty-three Labyrinths on a Month x Day Grid
An Avocado, a Plate, a Taco, and a Kitchen Towel
One Labyrinth Composed by Forty-nine Labyrinths
Eight Transfers and Nine Sheets of Paper
Many Drawings of Landscapes without Green
Seventeen Drawings with Seventeen Colors
Studies for the Labyrinth of the World
Thirthy-one Labyrinths for December
Twenty-four Marinières
Forty Compositions with Four Colors
Labyrinth with a Solution of One Hundred Decisions
Studies for a One-Hundred-Square-Meter Labyrinth
Infinite Details of One Labyrinth
Four Sections of a Labyrinth
Three Details of a Labyrinth
Forty-one Iterations of a Linear Labyrinth
Ten Iterations of a Labyrinth Inside a Circle
Ten Iterations of a Labyrinth Inside a Square
One Hundred Iterations of a Labyrinth

MUSIC
Minerals (2023)
Nine Videos for Minerals

FILM ARCHIVE (2015–PRESENT)
Climate Portraits: Nieuwe Instituut
Pressed & Polished, The Berlage
Among the Firs in Waalre, Eindhoven
Moving Milk & Timber, The Berlage
Rain Harvest Home, Valle de Bravo
The Auto Drives Architecture, The Berlage
Morningside Residence, Miami
Stewart Avenue Residenc, Miami
Brillhut, Bahamas
Alma Residence, Bahamas
Thatch House, Bahamas
Ridge House
Frame House
Octothorpe House, Bend
House with a Yoga Studio, Seattle
Suncrest Residence, Orcas Island
Bunny Lane Residence, Orcas Island
North Beach Residence, Orcas Island
Alton Wines, Walla Walla
Rotterdam Architecture Month Exhibition
Tsuga Townhomes, Seattle
Othello Gardens Multifamily, Seattle
Peach Court Residence, Seattle
Terbregsehof 11, Rotterdam
Skigard Hytte, Kvitfjell
Playtime Studio, Rotterdam
Polson Building Offices, Seattle
Wye landing Memory Houses
Gortonbounds Bunkhouse, Decatur Island
Pam & Paul’s House, San Francisco
Rombos III, Mexico City
Washington Fruit & Produce Company
Quinta Huajuco
Brisas House, Monterrey
Hood Cliff Retreat, Hood Cliff
Courtyard DADU, Seattle
Cottonwood Canyon Experience Center
Cantilever House, Seattle
House in San Juan de Alima
Fairfax Garage Conversion, Los Angeles
West Los Angeles Residence, Los Angeles
Fleischmann Residence, Los Angeles
Bosques House, Mexico City
Santa Fe House, Mexico City
Peter & Jan’s House, San francisco
Jojutla Central Gardens, Jojutla
Club de Niños y Niñas, Tecamac
Rochester 64, Mexico City
Kreuzwiesen, Zurich
Center for Hearing and Language, Zurich
Desarrollo DSA, Tapalpa
Escher Park, Zurich
Campus Moos, Zurich
Europaallee, Zurich
Diakonie Bethanien, Zurich
The Pop-out Studio, Seattle
Memory Houses Exhibition, Seattle
Mercer Slough, Seattle
Little House, Hood Canal
Helen Street House, Seattle
LC710 Housing, Mexico City
Entrepinos, Valle de Bravo
Guanajuato Museum, Guanajuato
COR Cellars, Lyle
Reforma 326, Mexico City
Botanical Gardens, Culiacán
EGL1916 Housing, Guadalajara
Bedolla House, Monterrey
Casa Espigas 41, Monterrey
2i4e House, Monterrey
Casa VR, Guadalajara
A Room, Mexico City
Cerrada Reforma House, Mexico City
SJA House, San Juan de Alima
Atlas House, Guadalajara
Palmas House, Guadalajara
IC House, Guadalajara
Narigua House, Monterrey
RM House, Monterrey
Red House, Monterrey
Casa de Uno, Monterrey

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Still from the film about the Trestle Cabin designed by Miller Hull in Decatur Island.
Still from the film about Wembury Mews designed by Russell Jones in London.


















Skigard Hytte, MORK-ULNES, Kvitfjell, Norway
© 2024

RECENT NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
January 30, 2025
The new book on the work of MORK-ULNES is now available through Park Books.



The publication features in the coger and inside a collection of stills from a series of short films made for the office in recent years in both Norway and the United States.

Link to Park Books
January 22, 2025
Upcoming screening dates in the Netherlands for the documentary ‘At the Garden’s Pace’

February 19 — Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
February 27 — MIMIK Deventer
October 10, 2024
Sold out room for the world premiere of ‘At the Garden’s Pace’ in the AFFR


Photo: Sander van Wettum
September 9, 2024
The documentary ‘At the Garden’s Pace’ will have its world premiere at the AFFR in October

Watch trailer
September 1, 2024
‘Rain Harvest Home’ is now available to stream online

Watch now
June 6, 2024
‘Ten Films, One Animation, and Ten Other Films’, Lecture at Nudus Academy in Rotterdam
February 29, 2024
‘Many Films and One Vernissage’, Lecture at TU Delft, as part of a lecture series organized by Max Hart Nibbrig


February 14, 2024
‘Notes on Filmmaking‘, Lecture at Universidad Anáhuac, as part of Empalmes, a lecture series organized by Jimena Hogrebe
November 22, 2023
New project: House in Veľký Klíž. Design of a house for a writer in slovak countryside.

October 13, 2023
Proud to announce that Rain Harvest Home was awarded the third place award at the Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival
May 13, 2023
Filmmaking trip to Miami and Bahamas to work on a series of films for Brillhart Architecture


April 25, 2023
Starting to work on a year-long documentary about the Villa Waalre designed by Russell Jones


January 25, 2023
Simon Architecture Prize in Barcelona


Last summer I traveled to Mexico City with Robert Hutchison and Javier Sánchez to make a short documentary about their project in Valle de Bravo, Rain Harvest Home. The result is a 9-minute film to be released later this year. In the meantime, a short version of the film was made for the Simon Architecture Prize and is available to watch at the link below. The project is among the five finalists in the category of Personal Places.
August 28, 2022
New film about Moya House in Mexico City


Pigmented concrete, a curved dome, a clear volumetry...

The film about Moya House focuses on the experience of walking through the stairs, the lights and shadows casted on the concrete surfaces, and the views discovered along the journey. In a very introspective way, the film remains inside of the house, while the opening scene offers a glimpse of what lies beyond the walls.
July 1, 2022
New film about Octothorpe House


A soccer match, an enclosed courtyard, an ice cream, shadow play...

The film about Octothorpe House is presented in a series of sequences with each introducing a different subject and space. From the dog’s life as he lays on the concrete floor and the intense soccer match happening inside the garage, to the views from within the enclosed courtyard and the reflection of the desert landscape in the exterior windows.

The film was produced for MORK-ULNES, an international architecture practice with offices in San Francisco, California and Oslo, Norway.
April 26, 2022
New film about Frame House in Sonoma


A concrete framework, a loggia, a hillside, a sunrise and a sunset...

From the first touch of the sun in the morning to the last reflection of it on the windows, the film about Frame House in the Sonoma countryside was filmed over the course of two days, moving across the site as the light was casting across and around the building.

The film was produced for MORK-ULNES, an international architecture practice with offices in San Francisco, California and Oslo, Norway.
April 11, 2022
New film about a House with a Yoga Studio


A densely forested lot, dapple light over wooden beams, an electric guitar, bees over ham and cheese, red wine...

Designed by Robert Hutchison Architecture, the project considers the renovation and expansion of a 1960s residence. The film presents a day in the life of the house, from the set up for a morning yoga group class to the preparations for hosting an evening party at the terrace.
Febraury 23, 2022   
New film about Suncrest Residence


A pacific madrone tree, a pair of binoculars, a prominent outcropping of rock, views to the sea, a golden tint over wood and concrete...

This is the first of three films produced for Heliotrope Architects in Orcas Island. Along with Joe Herrin, we traveled to this remote home to film over the course of one day The film follows the shape of the house by walking through the corridor from side to side. Three stops along the way highlight important elements of the design.
Juan Benavides is an architect whose work encompasses families of projects in no particular order of importance, including drawings, buildings, paintings, music, and films. At present, he is based in the Netherlands mostly making films on contemporary architecture and teaching at The Berlage.





mail@juanbenavides.mx

Instagram: juanbenavidesl
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FEATURED PROJECT
At the Garden’s Pace

FIVE RECENT PROJECTS
House in Veľký Klíž, Slovakia
Brillhut, Bahamas
Pressed & Polished, Greece, The Berlage
Eighteen Drawings of a Golf Course I
Rain Harvest Home, Valle de Bravo

UPCOMING SHORT FILMS
Casa de Barro, Amealco
Casa Copas, Valle de Bravo
La Fábrica de Hielo, Mexico City
The Tree House, Austin
Olancha Drive, Los Angeles
The Box, Los Angeles
Trollhus, Norden
Staggered Cabin, South Lake Tahoe
Trestle Cabin, Decatur Island
Wembury Mews, London
The Missing Room, Alto Monferrato
The Don Quixote Sculpture Hall, Amsterdam

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT ON YOUR DESKTOP BROWSER. IN THE MEANTIME, SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH A SELECTION OF FILM STILLS AND CLIPS.