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Eleuthera
Káraný
Querétaro
Valle de Bravo
Grez-Doiceau
Valle de Bravo
Alto Monferrato
Porto
Orcas Island
London
 
IN DEVELOPMENT
Barrandien, AA Visiting School
Castelar House, Solar
Lomas House, Sordo Madaleno
House 720, Fernanda Canales
Puertecito House, GOMA
Salara Residences, Hector Barroso
Sobinco Campus, DROM × Office CCXD
Terreno House, Fernanda Canales
Xoxhi-Calli, Carlos H. Matos
 
Prague
Madrid
Mexico City
Valle de Bravo
Puertecito
Pescadero
Zulte
Valle de Bravo
New Paltz

BIO
    Juan Benavides (Monterrey, 1991) graduated in Architecture from the University of Monterrey and worked as an architect in Mexico City, leading a number of international projects and competitions. During this time, he developed an interest in film and started working closely with architects and institutions in the production of films on contemporary architecture. He was awarded the renowned Marcelo Zambrano Scholarship to study the post-master program at The Berlage, where he continues to teach.

    Juan runs a multidisciplinary practice in and around contemporary architecture with a focus on film production. Since 2014, he has made short and long-format documentaries that explore buildings with strong formal clarity, rich spatial and material conditions, and set against inspiring landscapes. His first documentary feature film, At the Garden’s Pace, premiered at the AFFR in 2024 and continues to be presented globally.

LECTURES
  • ‘Many Films and Something Else’, Year End Show, Miller Hull, Seattle, December 2025
  • ´Ten Films, One Animation, and Ten Other Films’, Nudus Academy, Rotterdam, June 2024
  • 'Many Films and One Vernissage', TU Delft, February 2024
  • ‘Notes on Filmmaking', Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico City, February 2024
  • 'Three Disclaimers, Three Fixations, One Random Journey, Three Problems, and One Vernissage', Syracuse University, 2022
  • 'About Order and Other Things', UDEM, Monterrey, 2019
  • 'About Composition by Collaborative Means', Graham Baba, Seattle, 2019
  • 'About Divided Authorship', University of Washington, Seattle, 2019

TEACHINGS
  • ‘Seven Episodes for The Community’, The Berlage, Fall 2025
  • ‘Project Global: The Logistics of Fish and Cork’, with Sanne van den Breemer and Benjamin Groothuijse, The Berlage, Spring 2025
  • 'Notes on Filmmaking', Research Colloquium, The Berlage, Fall 2024
  • 'Project NL: Coast Atlas', with Sanne van den Breemer and Jules Schoonman, The Berlage, Fall 2024
  • 'Project Global: The Logistics of Marble and Olives', with Sanne van den Breemer and Benjamin Groothuijse, The Berlage, Spring 2024
  • 'Project NL: City Atlas', with Sanne van den Breemer and Jules Schoonman, The Berlage, Fall 2023
  • 'Notes on Filmmaking', Research Colloquium, The Berlage, Fall 2023
  • ‘Let’s Have a Picnic!’, Introduction Week Workshop, The Berlage, Fall 2023
  • 'Project Global: The Logistics of Milk and Timber', with Sanne van den Breemer and Benjamin Groothuijse, The Berlage, Spring 2023
  • 'Project NL: River Atlas', with Sanne van den Breemer, Benjamin Groothuijse, and Jules Schoonman, The Berlage, Fall 2022
  • 'One Hundred Observations from and of the Dutch Landscape', Introduction Week Workshop, The Berlage, Fall 2022
  • 'Design Master Class: Architecture by Auto', with Pavel Bouse and Kees Kaan, The Berlage, Fall 2021
  • 'One Hundred Instructions for Discovering Delft', Introduction Week Workshop, The Berlage, Fall 2021
  • 'Design Master Class: A Journey Round my Room', with Beka & Lemoine and Lucas Bacle, The Berlage, Spring 2021

FILM SCREENINGS
  • ‘At the Garden’s Pace’, VAi, Antwerp, December 2025
  • ‘At the Garden’s Pace’, ADFF: Vancouver, November 2025
  • ‘At the Garden’s Pace’, ADFF: Los Angeles, October 2025
  • ‘At the Garden’s Pace’, ADFF: New York, October 2025
  • ‘At the Garden’s Pace’, Filmtheater Hilversum, May 2025
  • ‘At the Garden’s Pace’, MIMIK, Deventer, February 2025
  • ‘At the Garden’s Pace’, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, February 2025
  • ‘At the Garden’s Pace’, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, World Premiere, 2024
  • ‘Rain Harvest Home’, Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival, 2024
  • ‘Rain Harvest Home’, International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona, 2023
  • ‘Rain Harvest Home’, Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival, 2023
  • ‘Rain Harvest Home’, CINETEKTON Festival Internacional de Cine y Arquitectura, 2023
  • ‘Rain Harvest Home’, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, 2023





































©2025
Juan Benavides is an architect who runs a film production house working with an observational documentary approach focused on contemporary architecture. Operating between Mexico and Europe, the practice oversees every stage of production, creating short- and long-format films that explore buildings with strong formal clarity, rich spatial and material conditions, and inspiring landscapes.

Film Commissions & Inquiries
mail@juanbenavides.mx

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PRESSED & POLISHED
36 MIN.
THE BERLAGE
GREECE, 2024
Greece, renowned for its olives and marble. Follow Pressed & Polished as it traces the journey from extraction to creation, presenting olives transformed into soap and marble into gravestones. Discover the blend of tradition and technology, and witness how waste and consumption shape the country’s landscape.
Directors: Carlos von Bertrab, Efi Chatzikonstantinou, Misha Frantsuzov, Ivanna Gressani
Editors: Juan Benavides, Carlos von Bertrab, Efi Chatzikonstantinou, Misha Frantsuzov, Ivanna Gressani
Cinematography: Juan Benavides
Translation: Efi Chatzikonstantinou
Pressed & Polished is part of a trilogy along Moving Milk & Timber, and Punching & Canning, a series of documentary films produced under the course Project Global at the Berlage, led by Juan Benavides, Sanne van den Breemer, and Benjamin Groothuijse.
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