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All participants travelling from abroad are responsible for securing any visa required, and are advised to contact their home embassy early. After a formal application, the AA School can provide a letter confirming participation in the workshop.

Program Head

Pedro Ignacio Alonso holds a PhD in architecture from the AA and heads the Ph.D program in Architecture and Urban Studies at PUC Chile. With Hugo Palmarola, he received the Silver Lion for the Chilean Pavilion Monolith Controversies at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2014), and with Paulina Bitrán is the author of the The Additional Element in Architecture: On Kazimir Malevich Arkhitektons and Planits (MIT Press, 2025). Together with Pamela Prado, Alonso authored the Deserta Ecofolie pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2025).

Tutors

Anne Beim has been a professor at the Royal Danish Academy since 2008. She is heading CINARK — Centre of Industrial Architecture, which is bridging academic research with practice and industry. For the past 10 years she has been chair of the graduate program Settlements, Ecology & Tectonics. Materials and cultures of construction have been a fundamental baseline all the way through her work.

Francisco Chateau Gannon is an architect and a full professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has been a permanent studio professor, and his work links construction technology with the histories and theories of architecture. He has studied the regeneration of high-rise social housing complexes, directed the UC Biofabrication Laboratory, and participated in applied research projects on bio-based materials. He is currently in charge of the FabLab Austral and a member of the UC Network of Regional Centers and Stations (RCER), where he has developed infrastructure projects for scientific stations.

Germán Guzmán is an architect and holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), where he teaches building technology and design. He has worked with Francisco Chateau developing and constructing projects in remote areas, such as the Patagonia Research Station at the fjords of Chilean Patagonia, and more recently, the project for the Loa UC Research Station in the Atacama Desert.

Pamela Prado studied philosophy at the University of Chile and holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London. Her academic and curatorial work has bounced between the United Kingdom, Brazil and Chile. She co-founded Curating Contexts, a visual arts platform in South America, and was curator-in-residence at the Fórum Permanente and Ateliê Fidalga in São Paulo.

Guest tutors and advisors

Pablo Osses McIntyre is a geographer and academic at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, specializing in fog water harvesting, spatial models for water and energy, and rural systems. He is the director of the Alto Patache research station and has led FONDEF, ANID, and FIC projects. Osses holds a master’s degree in economics and serves on the board of the International Fog and Dew Association. His publications address sustainable solutions for water-scarce regions through applied geographic research.

Alberto Prado holds a Ph.D from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture in Iquique’s Arturo Prat University. He has conducted extensive research focused on the Atacama Desert, and the idea of space from within the Inca invasion of Tarapacá, the nitrate cycle, to the more contemporary migration processes. A specialist in territorial didactics, he participates in the Erasmus-POLIS project with Latin American and European universities and collaborates on doctoral programs related to cross-border studies.