PONCE ARCHITECTURE

An award-winning research-based design practice, that explores the relationship between culture, context, and the built environment.

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 FEATURED WORK

01. Woodlands Christian Center

02. Spec House
      2019 AIA Houston Award
2020 Texas Architect Studio Award

03. Zina Garrison Tennis Academy
      2017 AIA Houston Award

  

04. Four Leaf

05. Dance Studio

 PUBLICATIONS

“Seeing Double” Cite Magazine 103

“Breathing Lessons” Texas Architect  July/Aug 2023

“Two Sides of The Border” Review, Cite Digital

“In the Air” Texas Architect March/April 2021 ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Old Spanish Trail

University of New Mexico Exhibition

University of Houston















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.
Celeste Ponce is a registered architect and founder of Ponce Architecture. She received a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation with honors for Excellence in Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Houston. Ponce teaches at the University of Houston’s Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design and is a faculty member at Wonderworks Houston, a scholarship driven and competitive pre-college architectural program. 

Her research, “Seeing Double: A Journey Along the Rio Bravo” was featured in Rice University’s, Cite 103 (Rice Design Alliance, 2022). The research was also featured in a solo exhibition at the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning in 2018. Her article surveying Houston’s East Side appeared in Texas Architect’s March/April, Nature/Culture and Commercial issue and July/August, Public/Private issue (2021, 2023, Texas Society of Architects). She is a LEED Accredited Professional, and a member of the American Institute of Architects.