Mauricio Rodriguez Anza is an architect, designer and artist born in Mexico City in 1957. His work has focused primarily in the experimental field and has developed a diversity of studies and investigations on architecture, design and art.

He has designed and produced more than 300 pieces of furniture (single pieces or limited-editions series) and an extensive collection of objects, stage design and architectural installations; designed houses, galleries and was introduced to museum design which later became a priority in his work. His interest and intense activity in the creation of objects, installations and limited edition furniture throughout this period was responsible for the introduction of design into museums and galleries in Mexico for the first time, building a new cultural bridge for the arts. During this period his work became the archetype of Mexican design.

Since 1998, he lives in the United States and has focused on the development of new ideas on architecture based on progression, versatility and the implementation of new graphic languages which led to to the creation of new forms of public art. His unique approach of the “Transitional Museum” made public in 2009, suggest the creation of new alternative routes in museum design and temporary exhibition spaces. His work has been widely published and has been the center of individual and group exhibitions in Mexico, United States, Canada, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Japan.

Mauricio Rodriguez Anza is the co-founder of Design Museum Houston (DMH).