Ponce Architecture is a research-based design practice that explores the relationship between culture, context, and the built environment.

We are committed to a design process that includes personal testimonies, topographical surveys, history, and cultural geography. This process engages a wider contextual lens while revealing complex questions that range from sociopolitical, infrastructural, and environmental challenges to questions about domesticity, the rural vernacular and local cultural networks.  

Our ongoing research is an agent for initiating urgent questions about the built environment, while reaffirming design that enhances lives and impacts communities requires thoughtful inquiry and academic research.

The Houston office is certified as a State of Texas Historically Underutilized Business. Ponce Architecture is a recipient of an AIA Houston Design award in 2017, 2019, and the Texas Society of Architects Award in 2020.