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PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN ARCHITECTS was founded in Buenos Aires in 2001 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. They currently work in Concepcion, Southern Chile, in a cross-production between Art and Architecture. Mauricio Pezo completed a Masters in Architecture in the Catholic University of Chile (Santiago, 1998) and graduated from the Bio-Bio University with a Degree in Architecture (Concepcion, 1999). He teaches at the School of Architecture of the Bio-Bio University, at Talca University and has been invited as Visiting Critic at AAP Cornell University during spring semester 2009. He has been awarded the CA Prize by the UBB (Concepcion, 1999) and the Best Young Chilean Architect Prize by the Chilean Architects Association (Santiago, 2006). Sofia von Ellrichshausen holds a Degree in Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, 2002). She teaches at the School of Architecture of Talca University and has been invited as Visiting Critic at AAP Cornell University during spring semester 2009. She was awarded the Honors Diploma by the FADU UBA (Buenos Aires, 2002). They have lectured in different venues, among others: GSD Harvard University (Cambridge), Bauhaus-Universitat (Weimar), Arquine Congress (Mexico), Cip Talks (Zagreb), Oslo Association of Architects (Oslo), Victoria & Albert Museum (London) and the Alvar Aalto Symposium (Jyvaskyla). They have also been the curators of the Chilean Exhibition at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Venice, 2008). The office has been awarded the Best Work of Young Architects Prize at the V Iberoamerican Biennial (Montevideo, 2006), the Architectural Quality Prize at the XV Chilean Architecture Biennial (Santiago, 2006) and the Commended Prize at the AR Awards for Emerging Architecture (London, 2005).


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