Sofia Von Ellrichshausen, Mauricio Pezo
Pezo von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio established in Concepcion, southern Chile, in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. Mauricio Pezo completed a master in architecture at the Universidad Catolica de Chile ( Santiago, 1998) and a degree in architecture at the Universidad del Bio-Bio (Concepcion, 1999). He has been awarded the Young Architect Prize by the chilean architects association (Santiago, 2006) and the Municipal Art Prize by the Concepcion City Hall (Concepcion, 2013). Sofia von Ellrichshausen holds a degree in architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, 2002) where she was distinguished with the Fadu-Uba honors diploma. Pezo and von Ellrichshausen have been the curators of the Chilean pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale. They teach regularly in Chile and have been visiting professors at the University of Texas (Austin, 2011-2014) and at Cornell University (New York, 2009). The work of the studio has been edited in monographic issues of A+U (Tokyo, 2013), 2G (Barcelona, 2012) and ARQ (Santiago, 2007) and exhibited at the international architecture exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia (Venice, 2010) and at the Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2014).
