Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Pezo von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio founded in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. The studio lives and works in southern Chile, on a farm at the foot of the Andes Mountains.
Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen are Louis Kahn Visiting Professors at Yale University. They have also served as Professor of the Practice at AAP Cornell University and as visiting critics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Tokyo, the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, the University of Texas at Austin, Porto Academy, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Their work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, MAXXI in Rome, and as part of the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They have been invited to participate in the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition in 2010 and 2016, and served as curators of the Chilean Pavilion in 2008.
The studio’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Mies Crown Hall Americas Emerge Prize awarded by the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Rice Design Alliance Prize, the Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award, and the Chilean Architecture Biennial Award.
Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s work has been widely published in monographic issues of El Croquis, AV (Madrid), A+U (Tokyo), and 2G (Barcelona), as well as in the essay books Spatial Structure (2016), Naïve Intention (2018), Window Wall (2024), Form of Knowledge (2025), and Proto Vernacular (2026).
