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, on a farm at the foot of the Andes Mountains. They serve as Louis Kahn Visiting Professors at Yale University and have been Professors of the Practice at AAP Cornell University. They have also been visiting critics at the GSD Harvard University, UC Berkeley, UPenn, Tokyo University, the IIT in Chicago, the University of Texas in Austin, Porto Academy, and the Universidad Católica de Chile. Their work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, MAXXI in Rome, and is part of the permanent collections of 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), and curated the Chilean Pavilion in 2008. Their work has received several distinctions, including the Mies Crown Hall Americas Emerge Prize by IIT, the Rice Design Alliance Prize, the Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award, and the Chilean Architecture Biennial Award. The studio’s work has been widely published, including monographic issues of El Croquis, AV (Madrid), A+U (Tokyo), and 2G (Barcelona), as well as in the essay books Proto Vernacular (Maas Lawrence, 2026), Form of Knowledge (Thymos, 2025), Window Wall (B Architecture, 2024), Naïve Intention (Actar, 2018), and Spatial Structure (B Architecture, 2016).

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