Ismael Medina Manzano is an architecture and research agency operating across diverse scales and scenarios, where each project emerges through dialogue with material conditions, collective processes, and all contributing agents.

The IMM agency’s work moves between architecture, research, and spatial politics, exploring how the built environment is shaped by systems of governance, material economies, and everyday forms of inhabitation. Architecture is understood not as an isolated object, but as something embedded in broader ecological, cultural, and social dynamics.

Each project begins with a process of deep inquiry. Rather than arriving with predetermined answers, the agency engages with local specificities, overlooked narratives, and interdisciplinary knowledge to frame spatial responses that are both grounded and speculative. What emerges is architecture as a site of negotiation, responsive, open-ended, and critically situated.

IMM works across a range of contexts, from housing to cultural infrastructures, and from academic research to territorial strategies. Across these scales, the studio is committed to addressing contemporary urgencies: climate transformation, new forms of domesticity, and the possibility of designing with care and accountability.

The agency frequently collaborates with artists, curators, scientists, and local communities, seeking to expand the architectural process through other modes of thinking and making. These partnerships enrich each project with perspectives that challenge conventional boundaries and open up new ways of understanding space.

In all its work, IMM fosters a collective approach to architecture, where building becomes a means of cultivating relationships, spatial awareness, and shared futures.