The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents...Pedro Ignacio Alonso.
Pedro Ignacio Alonso is an architect. He has been recently awarded a Silver Lion for Monolith Controversies, the Chile Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennial, co – curated with Hugo Palmarola in 2014. They are the authors of the books Panel (Architectural Association, 2014) and Monolith Controversies (Hatje Cantz, 2014), obtaining a DAM Architectural Book Award granted by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum and Frankfurt Book Fair. Alonso holds a MSc in architecture from the Universidad Católica de Chile, and completed his Ph.D at the Architectural Association in London. He has received research grants from the RIBA in London and the Getty Institute in Los Angeles, and has been Visiting Scholar at the CCA in Montreal for his research on large-concrete panel systems of prefabrication. With Palmarola, he has curated exhibitions at the Architectural Association in London, and has exhibited his work at Pratt Institute in New York, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Sao Paulo Cultural Centre in Brazil. Alonso is also the author of Deserta: Ecology and Industry in the Atacama Desert (ARQ, 2012), and has published articles at AA Files, San Rocco and Manifest, and book chapters with Routledge (2013), and MIT Press (2014). He teaches theory of architecture and design at the Universidad Católica de Chile, where he is Associate Professor, and teaches at the Architectural Association, currently as Program Director of the AA Visiting School to Santiago.
Emerging Voices Lecture: Panel trajectories
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