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I'm an architect, urban designer, and researcher working between Santiago and London. My research focuses on the spatial arrangements of extractive activities and their ecologies. Currently, I'm a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths' Centre for Research Architecture (CRA), where my dissertation, Landscape Ledgers: Fostering Environmental Publics through EIA’s Citizen Participation Processes in Areas of Socio-Environmental Conflict, explores environmental impact assessments and public engagement. I am also a graduate tutor for the MA in Research Architecture (2024–2025 cohort) at CRA.

My writing has been published in the Journal of Architectural Education 78:2 Worlding. Energy. Transitions (Taylor & Francis, 2024); DELUS: The Journal of the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (Hatje Cantz, 2024); and Architecture: From Public to Commons (Routledge, 2023). I was the guest editor of the peer-reviewed journal Materia Arquitectura: Matter Out of Place (Universidad San Sebastián, 2024).

I hold a master's degree in architecture and urban design from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and a bachelor's degree in architecture from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFMS) 


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Awards / Grants

2024 Graduate School Grant, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

2023 Visual Cultures Scholarship, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

2022 Research Grant, Universidad de Las Américas, CL

2021 Production Grant Driving the Human Festival, DE

2020-2021 Incubator Prize, GSAPP, Columbia University, USA

2018 Prize for Excellence, MS Architecture and Urban Design, GSAPP, Columbia University, USA

2018 William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize, GSAPP, Columbia University, USA

Appointments

2025 Chilean Pavilion  19th International Architecture Exhibition Venice Bienale, Co-curator, ITALY/CHILE

2024 EDUMEET 2024, Scientific committee, SPAIN/CHILE

2022 Regional Ambassador for Latin America, GSAPP, USA

2021 Alumni Mentorship Program, GSAPP, USA


Academia / Practice

2025 -Adjunct Architecture Studio Teacher School of Architecture, Universidad de Las Américas, Santiago, CL

2024 -Present Graduate Tutor, MA Research Architecture, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldmsiths, London, UK

2024 -Present Associate Lecturer,Campus Creativo, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, CL


2024 -Present Associate Lecturer, Master in Socio-Spatial Practices School of Architecture, Universidad de Las Américas, Santiago, CL

2020 -Present Co-founder AHORA, Santiago, Chile / London, UK

2021 - 2023 Associate Lecturer  Faculty of Architecture, Animation, Construction, and Design (FAADC) , Universidad de Las Américas, Santiago, CL

2020 - 2021 Adjunct Architecture Studio Teacher School of Architecture, Universidad de Las Américas, Santiago, CL

2020 - 2021 Adjunct Architecture Studio Teacher Campus Creativo, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, CL

2018 - 2019 Associate Research Scholar Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes (CRCL), Columbia University, New York, USA

2017 - 2018 Events Assistant Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, Columbia University, New York, USA

2015 - 2017 Intermediate Architect GM Associated Architects, Santiago, CL

2011 - 2015 Junior Architect KOLFF S.A, Santiago, CL


Publications

2024 Journal of Architecture Education 78:2 Worlding. Energy. Transitions (Publisher: Taylor & Francis) Essay “A New Ecological Contract: Tools to See Otherwise” doi:10.1080/10464883.2024.2381429.

2024 DELUS. The Journal of the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies. Chasing Water Issue 1 (Publisher: Hatje Cantz) Essay  “Desalination and a New Environmental Public” 

2023 Materia fuera de lugar. Matter out of Place (Publisher: Universidad San Sebastián) https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.v1i25.560

2023 Architecture from Public to Commons (Publisher: Routledge) Chapter “Unearthing and Reversing: Exhausting the Water Cycle.” Editor Marcelo López- Dinardi. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003349785

2023 Esto no es Arquitectura / This is not Architecture (Publisher: Ediciones Academia Espacial) Featured as one of the interview transcripts with sixteen Chilean architects expanding what it means to practice architecture today in Chile. Edited by Fernando Portal, Bárbara Rozas & Rodrigo Valenzuela Jerez

2022 KERB 30. Power: Resistance and Surrender. Agency in a landscape of uncertainty (Publisher: RMIT) Essay: Toxic Custodians: New Post Extractivism Economies or Three Future Mythologies and A Whisper. with AHORA

2022 Monumental Wastelands Magazine Issue 1: Autonomy (Publisher: Pareid) Essay: ¿Qué pasa cuando la mina cierre? What happens when the mine closes? with AHORA

2022 Paprika! Reading The Room. Volume 7, Issue 07 (Publisher: Yale School of Architecture) Essay: Remote Closeups, Scene 1. with AHORA

2021 Empathy Revisited: Design for more than one, 5th Istanbul Design Biennial Catalog The Avocado Toast entry featured in the biennial catalog

2019 Workshop Report: Pantanoso Basin Developed for CRCL with Intendencia de Montevideo and 100 Resilient Cities at Columbia University

2019 Workshop Report: Designing for El Yaque Del Norte Developed for CRCL with Municipalidad de Santiago de los Caballeros and 100 Resilient Cities at Columbia University

2012 Revista de Urbanismo (27) Schilling, L. (2012). “Terralatos”, análisis cualitativo de relatos biográficos en el contexto del espacio en crisis. Revista De Urbanismo, 14(27), Pág. 14–41. https://doi.org/10.5354/ru.v14i27.26402

2010 SCL 2110 Catalog Ubiquity Canals entry featured in the biennial catalog. Tisi, R. (2010). SCL2110 (1st ed., p. 607). Santiago, Chile: Uqbar.

Symposia

2023 Pensar el Antropoceno Desde el SurOrganized by Instituto de Estética Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. PANEL: Naturocultural Hybrids from Science-Based Fiction and Practice-Based Research. Presentation title: "Tools to see otherwise: multiscale simulations for new climate fictions."

2023 Sensing the Environment Multidisciplinary symposium at RISD focused on just climate futures. With the participation of sTo len, LinYee Yuan, Felipe Shibuya, Paulo Tavares, Maggie Tsang, and Gabriel Cuéllar. Organized by Amelyn Ng.

Workshops

2024 "Humedales enmarañados" | Núcleo Milenio + CCA + ARQ UC Invited as a subject matter expert to deliver a talk on Environmental Impact Assessments

2023 Encuentro Latinoamericano de Estudiantes de Arquitectura (ELEA) Costa Rica Delivered a week-long workshop with Wai Think Tank (Natalie Frankowski and Cruz García) and Alejandro Alcázar on extractivisms and decolonial architectural practices with Latin American undergraduate architecture students


Exhibitions

2024 Landscape Ledgers & Rehearsing Environmental Publics Lecture and performance at Núcleo Lenguaje y Creación NLC/UDLA

2023 Sensing the Environment Group exhibit at BEB Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design. Curated by Amelyn Ng

2022 13th Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial Participant with Two talking trees / Una conversación entre dos árboles, a installation and video essay with AHORA and Luciana Varkulja

2021 Driving the Human Festival: 21 Vision for Eco-social Renewal A participant with Toxicity Distributed: Post-extractive economies, one of the 21 selected projects by Driving the Human, an initiative led by – acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering, Forecast, the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, exhibited at Radialsystem in Berlin, Germany, between 15-17th October 2021.

2020 Empathy Revisited: Design for more than one, 5th Istanbul Design Biennial  Produced the video essay “The Avocado Toast” for the Biennials` “Cooking Show,” a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Istanbul Design Biennial within the context of its fifth edition. Curated by Mariana Pestana, Sumitra Upham, and Billie Muraben

2019 Seul Biennial Contributor to the group exhibition Speculative City: Crisis, Turmoil, And Projections In Architecture by David Eugin Moon. My contribution included a 3D-printed object of Aqaba`s SEZ polygon and an illustration for the “Speculative Urbanism” seminar taught by David Eugin Moon in the fall of 2018 at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.

2016 100 en 1 día Participant at “100en1día”, an urban interventions festival held in Santiago and other cities around South America, with the short film “Volutorios,” the film exhibited at the open plaza of MAVI (Museum of Visual Arts)

2010 SCL 2110 Participant with the work “Ubiquity Canals” selected as undergraduate student work exhibited at the SCL 2110 exhibition curated by Rodrigo Tisi


Public Programming

2022 3rd International Architecture & Ethnography Seminar An in-person international seminar financed by the National Council for Arts and Culture that brought international thinkers and practitioners together in different cities in Chile. The seminar also hosted workshops and an exhibition of works received through an open call and work from guests.

2022 Momento Interviews with practitioners that influence architecture, organized by the School of Architecture at  Universidad de Las Américas

2021 - 2022  Cielo Falso A pre-recorded interview with current thinkers and practitioners that influence architecture organized by the FAADC at  Universidad de Las Américas

2020 Propagaciones  An interview series with architects shaping the discourse of architecture was organized by Campus Creativo at  Universidad Andrés Bello and Archdaily.






Desalination and a New Environmental Public / DELUS


01–11–2024
Article

Issue abstract

This new issue of DELUS: The Journal of the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies, entitled “Chasing Water,” brings together contributions on the topic of water. Nine essays invite us to explore different manifestations of the element. DELUS uses the term “chasing” to highlight the role of water in shaping and sustaining landscapes and urban environments, and the ongoing efforts to direct its course. From the transformation of English moorland and marshland to intricate irrigation systems in the Mediterranean and to the ecological impact of water harvesting schemes in Chile and Australia, each contribution explores the ways in which water is tracked, obstructed, or contained. “Chasing Water” vividly reflects the contradictory challenge of capturing, storing, and distributing the element in a world where it is theoretically abundant, but in many places inaccessible.

Chapter: 
Desalination and a New Environmental Public
DOI:10.61608/9783775758758-008
In book: Delus. The Journal of the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (pp.74-81)


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Journal of Architecture Education / A New Environmental Contract: Tools to See Otherwise



01–11–2024
Article

Abstract

A New Ecological Contract is a pedagogical framework for design studios that focus on sites of socioenvironmental conflict. Through ecocritical video game design, students engage with situated impacts of large-scale climate issues by working through images of environmental impact assessment reports and baseline studies as archives of landscape transformation. This framework pursued two objectives: first, to awaken a critical and spatial political imagination in the context of a four-year constitutional referendum process that challenged the basis of the Chilean economy and its relationship to the environment from which it derives its riches, and second, to present students with a case for using their representational abilities to engage with situated impacts of large scale climate issues by going through environmental impact assessment reports’ images and baselines studies approaching a design brief otherwise 

Cuellar, Linda Schilling, and Fernando Portal Carrasco. 2024. “A New Ecological Contract: Tools to See Otherwise.” Journal of Architectural Education 78 (2): 286–302. doi:10.1080/10464883.2024.2381429.


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Landscape Ledgers & Rehearsing Environmental Publics / Núcleo Lenguaje y Creación NLC



01–05–2024
Presentación y Performance

Landscape Ledgers & Rehearsing Environmental Publics fue una presentación y performance realizada en el contexto de la pasantía doctoral en el Núcleo Lenguaje y Creación de la Facultad de Arquitectura, Animación, Diseño y Construcción de la Universidad de Las Américas. 
Ambas actividades fueron una apertura de la investigación doctoral en curso en el Center for Research Architecture en Goldsmiths, University of London.


La investigación aborda los distintos regímenes visuales dentro de las Evaluaciones de Impacto Ambiental (EIA), buscando fomentar el desarrollo de
«públicos ambientales» a través de los procesos de participación ciudadana incluidos en los EIA y desarrollados en zonas de conflicto socioambiental. En ese sentido, la investigación propone una nueva lectura de los conflictos ambientales a través del análisis de las diferentes formas de representación espacial desarrolladas como parte de las EIA, tales como cartografías, imágenes de teledetección, ejercicios de modelado y registros de preocupaciones ciudadanas. Análisis desarrollado a partir de los registros de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental de infraestructura extractiva en Chile, para el periodo 1993-2022

En base a estos la presentación incluyó la puesta en escena de una instancia de participación ciudadana, la cual tomó como base el registro de las condiciones materiales con las que estas se producen por parte de las empresa mineras. En esta escena, un grupo de actores ensayó la lectura en voz alta de una selección de textos escritos por habitantes de zonas de conflicto, como parte de las instancias de participación ciudadana de los EIA. Textos escritos directamente en plataformas digitales de ingreso de comentarios, y posteriormente leídos solo en silencio, por quienes los procesan para su integración en los EIA.


La actividad fue financiada por la Graduate School Grant de Goldsmiths. 

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Materia Fuera de Lugar (Out of Place Matter) / Nº25 Revista Materia Arquitectura



30–04–2024
Guest editor

MATERIA ARQUITECTURA is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research, which can be exploratory and speculative. It is also open to visual and imaginative proposals. It aims to contribute to developing and questioning the discipline and architectural practice through new problems and ideas concerning the cultural, social, economic, and political contexts in which it operates.

THE OPEN CALL
plays with Mary Douglas's concept of out-of-place matter and reflects that such matter is neither cleansed nor washed away; it does not disappear; it only moves; nothing escapes the atmosphere of the terrestrial sphere. With architecture as an accomplice and primary user of extractive industries, promoting the ideals of modernity and development, the call received contributions that explored these new conditions in the context of environmental degradation.

CONTRIBUTORS Susan Schuppli @susan_schuppli / Pareid @pareid.architecture / Claudio Palavecino and Tomás García De La Huerta / Ophelia Mantz / Cristian Muñoz and Paula Orta @polgato / Jorge Valiente, Amaia Sánchez @grandeza.studio and Francisco Lobo & Romea Muryn @locument / Dillon Pranger / Amelyn Ng @amelynamelyn , Gabriel Vergara @gabrielvergarag and Christine Giorgio / Mále Uribe @maleuribef


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