In 1981 Mauricio Rodriguez Anza started designing limited edition furniture, objects and sculptures and in 1983 created and directed SPAZI in Mexico (1983-1985) and DOMO in Houston, TX (1985-1988), both pioneering companies devoted to promoting and selling contemporary design. In 1988 he started working and experimenting on small-scale objects, gradually moving to a variety of interventions which included large-format architectural installations and stage design for TV productions. This experimental process would become the platform for the implementation of new languages that he later applied to architectural bodies and public plazas. Simultaneously to this process, he designed furniture for museums, corporate spaces and began to practice a new approach for the rehabilitation of othogonal buildings where he incorporated a specific kind of art, one that derives from the lines and density of the building and extending its discourse to gardens, streets and plazas; the method would consist on the use of interchangeable integrated architectural components.

Since 1988 he has designed and produced more than 300 objects and pieces of furniture based on a limited edition production. His first furniture collection, which was exhibited at Hardy’s Gallery in 1988, was the first exhibition of Mexican design in an art gallery in the country. His exhibits “Cuatro Objetos” at the Carrillo Gil Museum and “Vía Alterna” at the Chopo Museum, both in 1992 were the first solo exhibitions of design by a Mexican author in an art museum, building a new bridge for the arts in Mexico. Since then, his work has been part of museums and private collections.

From 2009 to 2016 he wrote and developed three design studies based on his methods: HYPE: REFERENTIAL DESIGN, 2009; ALTERED, 2015 and NOMAD, 2016.