BIO

PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN

Pezo von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio founded in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. They live and work in southern Chile, in a farm at the foot of the Andes Mountains.They are Professor of the Practice at AAP Cornell University in New York and have been Louis Kahn Visiting Professors at Yale University, visiting critics at the GSD Harvard University, Tokyo University, the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, the University of Texas in Austin, Porto Academy and at the Universidad Catolica de Chile.
Their work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the MAXXI in Rome and as part of the Permanent Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They have been invited to the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition (2010, 2016), where they also were the curators for the Chilean Pavilion in 2008.Among other venues, they have lectured at the MIT, Princeton University, Columbia University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Architecture League of New York, the Tate Modern, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Alvar Aalto Symposium and the Royal Institute of British Architects.Their work has been distinguished with the Mies Crown Hall Americas Emerge Prize by the IIT, the Rice Design Alliance Prize, the Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award and the Chilean Architecture Biennial Award.
The work of the studio has been widely published and edited in monographic issues of El Croquis, AV in Madrid, A+U in Tokyo, 2G in Barcelona and in the essay books Spatial Structure (B Architecture publisher) and Naïve Intention (Actar).

Mauricio Pezo (b. Renaico, Chile, 1973) completed a Master in Architecture at the Universidad Catolica and a degree in Architecture at the Universidad del Bio-Bio. He has been awarded the Young Architect Prize by the Chilean Architects Association and the Municipal Art Prize by the Concepcion City Hall.
Sofia von Ellrichshausen (b. Bariloche, Argentina, 1976) holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires where she was distinguished with the FADU- UBA Honours Diploma. She was the president of the jury at the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition (2018).

PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN
Pezo von Ellrichshausen es un estudio de arte y arquitectura fundado en 2002 por Mauricio Pezo y Sofía von Ellrichshausen. Viven y trabajan al sur de Chile, en una granja al pie de la Cordillera de los Andes.
Pezo y Von Ellrichshausen comparten la cátedra de Professor of the Practice en el AAP Cornell University y la Louis Kahn Visiting Professors en Yale University. Tambien han sido profesores en el GSD Harvard University, Tokyo University, el Illinois Institute of Technology de Chicago, el UTSOA de la University of Texas, la Porto Academy y en la Universidad Catolica de Chile.
Su obra ha sido expuesta en la Royal Academy of Arts de Londres, el MAXXI en Roma y como parte de la Colección Permanente del Art Institute de Chicago, del Carnegie Museum y del Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York. Han sido invitados a la Exposición Internacional de Arquitectura de La Biennale di Venezia (2010, 2016), donde además fueron los Curadores del pabellón Chileno en 2008.
Entre otras instituciones, han dictado conferencias en el MIT, Princeton University, Columbia University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Architecture League de Nueva York, Tate Modern, Victoria & Albert Museum, y el Royal Institute of British Architects.
El trabajo del estudio ha sido distinguido con el Premio Emergente Mies Crown Hall de America del IIT (Chicago, 2014), el Premio de la Rice Design Alliance (Houston, 2012), el Premio de la V Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (Montevideo, 2006), el Premio de la XV Bienal de Arquitectura de Chile (Santiago, 2006) y el Premio Regional de Arquitectura (Concepción, 2014).
Su obra ha sido ampliamente publicada y compilada en ediciones monográficas de El Croquis (Madrid, 2022), AV (Madrid, 2017), A+U (Tokio, 2013), 2G (Barcelona, 2012), ARQ (Santiago, 2007) y en los libros Spatial Structure (B Architecture publisher) and Naïve Intention (Actar).
Mauricio Pezo (n. Renaico, Chile, 1973) obtuvo el grado de Magíster en Arquitectura en la Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, 1998), el título de Arquitecto por la Universidad del Bío-Bío (Concepción, 1999) y ha sido distinguido con el Premio Arquitecto Joven otorgado por el Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile (Santiago, 2006) y el Premio Municipal de Arte (Concepción, 2013).
Sofía von Ellrichshausen (n. Bariloche, Argentina, 1976) es Arquitecta egresada de la Universidad de Buenos Aires donde fue destacada con el Diploma de Honor FADU-UBA
(Buenos Aires, 2002). En 2018 fue presidente del jurado de la Exposición Internacional de Arquitectura de La Biennale di Venezia.
Pezo & Sofia Portrait, 2022
(Photography: © Pezo von Ellrichshausen)

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About Lecture

Lecture title: Second Nature
Speakers: Mauricio Pezo & Sofia von Ellrichshausen
Through a panoramic review of Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s body of work, the lecture will introduce a theoretical background that situates art and architecture in total reciprocity with the so-called natural world. The very notion of a “second nature” suggests a degree of artificiality that comes after a human interpretation, intentionality and an intuitive process of wondering about the role of buildings as a naïve form of knowledge.