'Evaporations' by Pedro Ignacio Alonso
Conference
'Evaporations' by Pedro Ignacio Alonso Conference
18th March 2025, Tuesday, 6.30pm, Flat Room
The conference ‘Evaporations’, presented by Pedro Ignacio Alonso, will take place on Tuesday 18 March 2025 at 6.30pm in the Sala Plana.
Pedro Ignacio Alonso is an architect, educator and curator, associate professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and director of the Doctoral Programme in Architecture and Urban Studies. His recent work has centred on the evaporation of water for the extraction of lithium in the Atacama Desert, reflecting on possible and future life in this type of territory and how architecture can make this existence possible.
Pedro Ignacio Alonso is an architect, teacher and curator. He is an Associate Professor at the Universidad Católica de Chile and Programme Director of the AA Visiting School in Santiago at the Architectural Association. His research focuses on prefabrication systems in large concrete panels and their international transfer during the Cold War years. Alonso co-curated the exhibition Monolith Controversies, winner of the Silver Lion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, and is co-author of the books Panel and Monolith Controversies. He is also the author of Deserta: Ecology and Industry in the Atacama Desert (ARQ, 2012), which will be presented at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale through a new project related to this intervention. Alonso holds a doctorate from the Architectural Association in London and has received research grants from the RIBA and the Getty Institute. His work has been exhibited internationally and published on various platforms.
The conference is organised by professors Ana Neiva (FAUP), Teresa Leão (FMUP), in collaboration with the Health, Well-being and Architecture curricular unit (Pedagogical Innovation Seal 2025).
The conference will be given in Spanish, without translation.
Free entry, subject to room capacity.
Programme subject to change (without prior notice).
This event may be recorded and publicised by FAUP through photography and video.
FAUP does not issue attendance declarations or online attendance of the event.