PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN - Concepcion, Chile
PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN - Concepcion, Chile
DESCRIPTION
Pezo von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio established in Concepcion, southern Chile, in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. Mauricio Pezo completed a Master in Architecture at the Universidad Catolica de Chile and a degree in Architecture at the Universidad del Bio-Bio. Sofia von Ellrichshausen holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires where she was distinguished with the FADU-UBA Honors Diploma. Pezo and von Ellrichshausen have been the curators of the Chilean Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale. They teach regularly in Chile and have been Visiting Professors at The University of Texas Austin and at Cornell University.
RECOGNITION
The studio's work has been distinguished with the Mies Crown Hall Americas Emerge Prize by the IIT (2014), the Rise Design Alliance Prize (2012), the V Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award (2006), and the XV Chilean Architecture Biennial Award (2006.
The work of the studio has been edited in monographic issues of A+U, 2G, and ARQ and exhibited at the International Architecture Exhibition at the La Biennale di Venezia, at London's Royal Academy of Arts, and as part of the permanent collection at The Museum of Modern Art New York.
Mauricio Pezo has been awarded the Young Architect Prize by the Chilean Architects Association (2006) and the Municipal Art Prize by the Concepcion City Hall (2013).
