The story of Pezo von Ellrichshause began with a casual milestone. He is Chilean; She, Argentina. They met at a party in Buenos Aires, without anyone having a bridge between them. Six months later, they were married and lived in Concepción, in southern Chile. The same place where, In 2002, they decided to create the study of art and architecture Pezo von Ellrichshause.
Since then his work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Maxxi in Rome and is part of the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museum and MoMa in New York. They have issued conferences at the MIT, Princeton, ColumbiaTate Modern, Victoria & Albert Museum, in the Architecture League in New York and the Royal Institute of British Architects, Just to mention some. Today, 22 years after the creation of his study, They reflect on the path traveled and intimacy that has marked each of his projects.
The work is located on the coliumo peninsula, a rural sector barely populated by artisanal peasants and fishermen.Courtesy Pezo von Ellrichshause
The kick
In 2005, a hillside located in collum, Chile, attracted the looks of the world. In it, Sofia and Mauricio gave life to Casa Poli, a work that they built in their veins, «With all the naivety and arrogance that this supposes,» says Sofia. They worked with a small group of local carpenters and created a space designed to fulfill a double function: serve as a rest house and cultural center.
«When we thought we had the ambition to make a radical projectnot in the sense of being extravagant or rupturist but in the sense of going to the roots, to the origin of a purely architectural thought. Being a relatively small work, and of material resources certainly modest, It was proposed as an inquiry about the basic form of spaceof its structural relationships, of the character of its elements within a unit system, ”explains Mauricio.