Camilo Restrepo

Camilo Restrepo Ochoa is principal and co-founder with Juliana Gallego Martinez of AGENdA Agencia de arquitectura in Medellin, Colombia. He graduated as an architect from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in 1998, and holds a masters degree from Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya through the METROPOLIS program in 2005. He was a design critic at Harvard Graduate School of design between 2013 and 2024.
 
Since its foundation AGENdA agencia de arquitectura has been involved in different projects of multiple scales and in diverse places as Mexico, Colombia, Panama. AGENdA performs architecture as culture and as a confluence of tropical ideals, thoughts and experiences that can take place connecting and understanding the local, the regional and the global. 
 
In 2024, AGENdA was a finalist for MCHAP emerge prize, and won the Quito Bienale.
 
In 2022 AGENdA was awarded with the Mexican national prize of architecture with Nuestro señor de Tula chapel in Jojutla in association with Dellekamp/Schleich and also won the Lápiz de acero award in Colombia. 
 
In 2022 Camilo Restrepo Ochoa was guest editor of a+u magazine, Japan, for the march issue about Colombia s recent architecture. And is nominated for the MCHAP Mies Crown Hall Architecture Prize and a current semifinalist. Camilo has been involved in different curatorial and writing projects, and for the Fall 2022 is launching the book of AGENdA ´s recent work and ideas under the title: Specific Ambiguity, published by Mexican publisher ARQUINE. 
 
In 2020 AGENdA agencia de arquitectura was selected as one of the most creative, interesting and promising emerging architects by DOMUS Magazine and awarded 2nd Prize by Fondazione Frate Sole, for the Church in Jojutla Mexico in association with Dellekamp/Schleich.
 
In 2017 AGENdA took part of Making New History at the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
 
Their work has been exhibited at MAK center 2019, L.A for the exhibition Soft Schindler, Roca gallery in London and in Mexico City in LIGA DF, in Mexico.
 
In 2014 he was nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Architecture Prize in Chicago, and the BSi (B-S-I, Banca della Svizzera Italiana) Architecture award in Switzerland.
 
His work has been widely published around the world, and he was one of three finalists of the 2012 Rolex Mentor Protégé award.
 
He has been curator for different architecture exhibitions and events in latinamerica. He has received the Colombian national prize for architecture and design Lapiz de acero in 2008 with the project Orquideorama in association with J.Paul Restrepo and PlanB.