Sofía von Ellrichshausen

Sofía von Ellrichshausen
Born1976
Bariloche, Argentina
Nationality
  • Argentina
  • Chile
Alma materUniversidad de Buenos Aires
OccupationArchitect
Notable workINES Innovation Center
Cien House[1]
Websitehttps://pezo.cl/

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

Their work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, at the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition, and is part of the permanent collections at 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, IL,[2] the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas,[4] and Tokyo University in Tokyo, Japan.[3]

Work

Sofia von Ellrichshausen met Mauricio Pezo in Buenos Aires, and established an art and architecture studio in Chile.[5]

Cien House, which the studio built for themselves, is located in one of the suburbs of Concepción,[6] and is presented as an example of Chilean Modernist architecture in a 2019 article in The New York Times.[7] Poli House, designed in 2005 by von Ellrichshausen, was included in The Guardian's list of "The 10 best concrete buildings",[8] and earned von Ellrichshausen the "Best Young Chilean Architect's Award".[9] In 2009 The Architectural Review described their design for Casa Fosc as "playful".[10] With Pezo, von Ellrichshausen was the curators of the Chilean Pavilion in the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale,[11] and she was a jury member at the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture.[12]

The studio's portfolio also includes Solo House,[2] Rode House,[2] Luna House,[13] Raem House, [13] the INES Innovation Center [13] to name a few.

Her work is part of the permanent collection at 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.