Pedro Ignacio Alonso, who gained his PhD from the AA in 2009 and is head of the forthcoming Visiting School Patagonia, has been appointed as Head of the PhD Programme at the Catholic University of Chile (PUC). Alonso was previously a Princeton-Mellon Fellow at Princeton University and resident architect at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. He has a history of producing exhibitions with Hugo Palmarola, and they received the Silver Lion for the Chilean Pavilion Monolith Controversies at the 2014 Venice Biennale. The edited volume they produced to accompany the exhibition received the 2014 Deutsches Architekturmuseum Book Award.

Image: The PUC PhD office and studio space at Lo Contador Campus, Santiago. Photograph by Pedro Ignacio Alonso.