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Pezo von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio established in Concepción, southern Chile, in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo (1976) and Sofia von Ellrichshausen (1976). They were the curators of the Chilean Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale and teach regularly in Chile at the Universidad Católica and in the U.S.A. at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Their work has been distinguished with the Mies Crown Hall Americas (MCHA) Emerge Prize (Chicago, 2014), the Rice Design Alliance Prize (Houston, 2012), the V Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award (Montevideo, 2006) and the XV Chilean Architecture Biennial Award (Santiago, 2006). It has also been published in monographic issues of A+U (Tokyo, 2013), 2G (Barcelona, 2012) and ARQ (Santiago, 2007), and exhibited at the International Architecture Exhibition, the Venice Biennale (Venice, 2010), at the Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2014) and as part of the Permanent Collection at the MoMA (New York, 2014).

Mauricio Pezo completed a Master in Architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (Santiago, 1998) and a degree in Architecture at the Universidad del Bio-Bio (Concepción, 1999). He has been awarded the Young Architect Prize by the Chilean Architects Association (Santiago, 2006) and the Municipal Art Prize by the Concepción City Hall (2013). Sofia von Ellrichshausen holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (2002), where she was distinguished with the FADU-UBA Honors Diploma.