Sofía von Ellrichshausen

Von Ellrichshausen was born in Bariloche, Argentina in 1976. She holds a degree in architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires.[2] She has taught at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York,[2] and the University of Texas at Austin.[3]

Sofia von Ellrichshausen met Mauricio Pezo in Buenos Aires, and established an art and architecture studio in Chile.[4]

Cien House, which the studio built for themselves, is located in one of the suburbs of Concepción,[5] and is presented as an example of Chilean Modernist architecture in a 2019 article in The New York Times.[6] Poli House, designed in 2005 by von Ellrichshausen, was included in the The Guardian's list of "The 10 best concrete buildings",[7] and earned von Ellrichshausen the "Best Young Chilean Architect's Award".[8] In 2009 The Architectural Review described their design for Casa Fosc as "playful".[9] With Pezo, von Ellrichshausen was the curators of the Chilean Pavilion in the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale,[10] and she was a jury member at the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture.[11]

Her work is part of the permanent collection at the MoMA in New York City;[12] and the Art Institute of Chicago.[13]

The studio is a recipient of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Emerge Prize in 2014 for Poli House,[14] the Rice Design Alliance Prize in 2012,[15] and the Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award (2006),.[8]