Guest Lecture: Juan Pablo Corvalan

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Guest Lecture: Juan Pablo Corvalan

The School of Architecture at the Academy of Art University invites you to a lecture by Chilean architect Juan Pablo Corvalán at the Brannan Campus Building on Monday October 28th / 6:00pm / Brannan Street / Room 211

Juan Pablo Corvalán is an Architect from Chile, he graduated from the Ecole d’Ingenieurs de Geneve, Switzerland and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Chile. He received a Master of Excellence in Architecture, from the Berlage Institute Rotterdam, The Netherlands and he is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Geography of the Pontificia Universidad Católica. Juan Pablo Corvalán is co-founder of Supersudaca, an international urban and architectural think tank and research group, and Susuka, the practical version of architecture in Chile.

Juan Pablo Corvalán has taught at several international universities, presented lectures, and conducted workshops in Lima, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Copenhagen, Guadalajara, Rotterdam, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Sydney, San Diego, Mumbai, Cambridge and New York, among other cities. He was selected in Panorama Emergente Iberoamericano IV in 2004, and participated as part of the Chilean Pavilion at the 12th Venice Biennale, 2012. His work Casa Kiltro was a finalist for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize in 2014. He is co-affiliated with the sound and space project [Sindicato de] Urbanistas Planetarios. He is currently dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Animation, Design and Construction at the Universidad de las Américas in Santiago, Chile.

The Lecture is free and open to the public.