[CANCELLED] Lecture: Pezo Von Ellrichshausen
[This lecture has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances]
Thu April 6th, 6pm @ EMPAC Theater:
PEZO – VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN: SPATIAL STRUCTURE _
Pezo Von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio established in Concepcion, southern Chile, in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia Von Ellrichshausen. They have been the curators of the Chilean pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale and teach regularly in Chile at the Universidad Catolica and in USA at the Illinois institute of technology. They have been visiting professors at the University of Texas (Austin, 2011-14) and at Cornell University (New York, 2009). Their work has been distinguished with the Mies Crown Hall Americas Emerge Prize by the IIT (Chicago, 2014), the Rice Design Alliance Prize (Houston, 2012), the V Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award (Montevideo, 2006) and the XV Chilean Architecture Biennial Award (Santiago, 2006). The work of the studio has been edited in monographic issues of A+U (Tokyo, 2013), 2g (Barcelona, 2012) and ARQ (Santiago, 2007) and exhibited at the International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale Di Venezia (Venice, 2010), at the Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2014) and as part of the permanent collection at the MoMA (New York, 2014).
Mauricio Pezo completed a Master of Architecture at the Universidad Catolica de Chile (Santiago, 1998) and a degree in architecture at the Universidad del Bío- Bío (Concepcion, 1999). He has been awarded the Young Architect Prize by the Chilean Architects Association (Santiago, 2006) and the Municipal Art Prize by the Concepcion City Hall (Concepcion, 2013).
Sofia Von Ellrichshausen holds a degree in architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, 2002) where she was distinguished with the fadu-uba honors diploma. For more information on Mauricio Pezo, Sofia Von Ellrichshausen and Pezo Von Ellrichshausen, please visit the firm’s site: