Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   We were told that when resources are scarce, intensity compensates for high performance (because there seems to be a deep gap between ingeniousness and intelligence). Any project is a reaction to its circumstances. This is an apparently simple and re

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   United States   This asymmetrical artifact investigates the architectural notion of scale. It is a wooden structure that has been assembled according to a simple principle of gravitational stacking of elements that reduce their size in height. This structural logic

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   Not only does the arid plane of concrete promote a life of leisure, it also anticipates the flooding of a nearby pool. Resting on this plinth, and with a cross-shaped floor plan open on the cardinal points, is a wooden volume that in turn supports a

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   This is both a huge and a small house. It doesn’t have extended rooms but a series of rooms that repeat themselves and some functions that are doubled according to traditional Chilean country life. The house is located in a small farm where, until no

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   The dense program of this house for a family with four children is fitted between a regular interior duct and the surface of the largest legally possible exterior wall. The prospect of a future division of the site adds to the decision of concentrati

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   The number of steps on a hill path nearby, the height of an old cypress that evokes those of Walter Pater, or the elevation above sea level that defines the podium could be used to explain the format of this building’s silhouette. But the reasons tha

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Spain   This unique entity occupies a dominant position in a rural landscape of vineyards and olive groves, set against a background of medieval villages and rocky outcrops. A bare horizontal volume is detached from the ground, suspended in an almost archaic

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   The decisions taken in the design were the reaction to an accident. It was created for an artist couple: he works with paper, engravings and digital publishing; she, with enamelled ceramic. They had previously been living together in a big old house

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   The bold form of this house attempts to articulate the contradictions of the topography of the place. Hemmed in between a steeply sloping hillside and a forest of eucalyptus trees, the house unfolds in two levels. Conceived as a dogmatic piano nobile

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   The pavilion is close to the ruins of an old lighthouse, with direct access from the only road that connects the island’s north and south villages. Its position on the hill dilutes the reference to the cardinal axes, so as to avoid the conflictive di

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   In a recently populated suburban area, this house for a couple of mathematicians and their two children has a square floor plan divided into asymmetrical quadrants that spiral up four floors. Four steps (70 cm in height) separate one quadrant from th

Luis Fernández-Galiano   I have not met Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen, but can easily notice in them the symptoms of the disease I also suffer. The geometric obsession, stubborn repetition or an Oulipo fixation on linguistic games are indeed features of an intel

Fernando Pérez Oyarzún   Theory of Location “Pezo von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio established in Concepción, southern Chile, in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen.” I think about these words, from the information section on the pezo.cl we

La casa que Mauricio Pezo y Sofía von Ellrichshausen han construido a las afueras de Concepción, en Chile, fue el encargo de una pareja de artistas (él trabaja sobre papel y ediciones digitales; ella, con cerámica esmaltada) que habían vivido juntos

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Ten Pavilions for Chile