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Sofía von Ellrichshausen

Sofía von Ellrichshausen (born 1976) is an Argentine-Chilean architect, artist, and educator. In 2002, she co-founded the art and architecture studio «Pezo von Ellrichshausen» in Concepción, Chile, together with Mauricio Pezo.

Their work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and is part of the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Education and academia

Von Ellrichshausen was born in Bariloche, Argentina, in 1976. She holds a degree in architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires.[2] She has taught at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York,[2] Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut,[3] the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture in Chicago,[2] the University of Texas at Austin,[4] and the University of Tokyo in Japan.[3]

Work

Von Ellrichshausen met Chilean architect Mauricio Pezo in Buenos Aires, and together they established an art and architecture studio in Chile.[5]

«Cien House», which the studio built for themselves, is located in a suburb of Concepción,[6] and was highlighted as an example of Chilean Modernist architecture in a 2019 article in The New York Times.[7] «Poli House», designed in 2005, was included in The Guardian's list of "The 10 Best Concrete Buildings,"[8] and earned her the "Best Young Chilean Architect Award."[9] In 2009, The Architectural Review described their design for «Fosc House» as "playful".[10] Together with Pezo, von Ellrichshausen was curator of the Chilean Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale,[11] and served as a jury member at the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture.[12]

The studio's portfolio also includes projects such as Solo House,[2] Rode House,[2] Luna House,[13] Raem House, [13] and the INES Innovation Center, [13] among others.

Her work is part of the permanent collections of the MoMA in New York City,[14] the Contemporary Art Museum in Santiago, Chile, [2] and the Art Institute of Chicago.[15]

Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Reporting from the Front, 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture [2]
  • Conceptions of Space, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2014) [2]
  • Sensing Spaces, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014) [2]

Publications

  • Naïve Intention. New York: Actar, 2018 [2]
  • Av Monographs 199: Pezo von Ellrichshausen—Geometric Abstraction. Madrid: Avisa, 2018 [2]
  • Pezo von Ellrichshausen—Spatial Structure. Copenhagen: Arkitektur B, 2016 [2]

Awards and honors

The studio is a recipient of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Emerge Prize in 2014 for Poli House,[16] the Rice Design Alliance Prize in 2012,[17] and the Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award (2006).[9]

References

  1. ^ Ott, Clara (10 March 2022). "INES Innovation Center / Pezo von Ellrichshausen". ArchDaily. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Sofía von Ellrichshausen | Cornell AAP". aap.cornell.edu.
  3. ^ a b "Sofia von Ellrichshausen". UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  4. ^ "Mauricio Pezo/ Sofía Von Ellrichshausen". Center: Architecture & Design in America. 2 (20): 152–165. 2014 – via Ebsco.
  5. ^ St. Hill, Cate (21 November 2016). "Meet: Pezo von Ellrichshausen - DesignCurial". www.designcurial.com. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  6. ^ Goodwin, Kate (3 December 2013). "Meet the architects: Sofia von Ellrichshausen and Mauricio Pezo | Blog | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk.
  7. ^ Snyder, Michael (2019-03-19). "In Chile, Homes as Extreme as the Landscape Itself". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  8. ^ Moore, Rowan (January 8, 2016). "The 10 best concrete buildings". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
  9. ^ a b Lind, Diana (2007). "Atop a jagged cliff in coastal Chile, Pezo von Ellrichshausen sets Casa Poli, a great concrete cube, evoking a block of porous stone". Architectural Record. 195 (4): 47. ISSN 0003-858X.
  10. ^ Kolb, Jaffer (Jun 2009). "043: CASA FOSC". The Architectural Review; London. 225 (1348): 54–59 – via ProQuest.
  11. ^ "Pezo von Ellrichshausen: From A to B". The Architectural League of New York.
  12. ^ Patrick Walsh, Niall (11 May 2018). "Jury Members for the 2018 Venice Biennale Announced". ArchDaily. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  13. ^ a b c "Pezo von Ellrichshausen". ArchDaily. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  14. ^ "Sofía von Ellrichshausen | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  15. ^ "No More No Less (Chicago) Model". Art Institute of Chicago. May 2017. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  16. ^ "Winners | Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize | Chicago, IL". MCHAP. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  17. ^ "Spotlight | Rice Design Alliance". www.ricedesignalliance.org. Retrieved 2022-06-28.