Together with Rozana Montiel, he was recipient of a Holcim Foundation PhD Research Grant in 2007 for “Sustainability in poor areas: Chimalhuacan Informal squatter settlements in the context of the local and global discourses”.

He is a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana and at the Taubman School of Architecture at the University of Michigan. He conducted a workshop at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) for two years (2002-2004). He has lectured in different universities and forums in Mexico, Switzerland, China and the United States.

Arturo Ortiz Struck studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), and received a master degree in urban research from the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM).

He is a member of the National System for Art Creators, FONCA In a collaborative participation with Tatiana Bilbao, Derek Dellekamp and Michel Rojkind he founded the urban research center MXDF in 2003.