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 Louis Kahn Visiting Professors at Yale University, have been Professor of the Practice at AAP Cornell University and visiting critics at the GSD Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Tokyo University, the IIT 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).
PUBLICATIONS
Pezo von Ellrichshausen: Arquitectura Viva No 257, Madrid, 2023
Pezo von Ellrichshausen: El Croquis No 214, Madrid, 2022
Naïve Intention: Actar, New York, 2017
Pezo von Ellrichshausen: AV no 199, Madrid, 2017
Spatial Structure: B Architectural Publisher, Copenhagen, 2016
Pezo von Ellrichshausen: A+U no 513, Tokyo, 2013
Pezo von Ellrichshausen: 2G no 61, Barcelona, 2012
EXHIBITIONS
Past Forward: Art Institute, Chicago, 2017
Exterior: Solo Galerie, Paris, Jun-Sep 2017
Reporting from the Front, 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2016
Conceptions of Space, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2014
Sensing Spaces, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2014
AWARDS
MCHAP.emerge Prize, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 2014
Spotlight Award, Rice Design Alliance, Houston, 2012
Young Architect Prize, Chilean Architects Association, Santiago, 2006
Young Architects Work Prize, Bienal Iberoamericana, Montevideo, 2006
Architecture Prize: XV Bienal de Arquitectura de Chile, Santiago, 2006
They are Louis Kahn Visiting Professors at Yale University, have been Professor of the Practice at AAP Cornell University and visiting critics at the GSD Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Tokyo University, the IIT 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).
PUBLICATIONS
Pezo von Ellrichshausen: Arquitectura Viva No 257, Madrid, 2023
Pezo von Ellrichshausen: El Croquis No 214, Madrid, 2022
Naïve Intention: Actar, New York, 2017
Pezo von Ellrichshausen: AV no 199, Madrid, 2017
Spatial Structure: B Architectural Publisher, Copenhagen, 2016
Pezo von Ellrichshausen: A+U no 513, Tokyo, 2013
Pezo von Ellrichshausen: 2G no 61, Barcelona, 2012
EXHIBITIONS
Past Forward: Art Institute, Chicago, 2017
Exterior: Solo Galerie, Paris, Jun-Sep 2017
Reporting from the Front, 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2016
Conceptions of Space, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2014
Sensing Spaces, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2014
AWARDS
MCHAP.emerge Prize, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 2014
Spotlight Award, Rice Design Alliance, Houston, 2012
Young Architect Prize, Chilean Architects Association, Santiago, 2006
Young Architects Work Prize, Bienal Iberoamericana, Montevideo, 2006
Architecture Prize: XV Bienal de Arquitectura de Chile, Santiago, 2006
