Dialectical Practices is a transdisciplinary collective towards critically expand the performative possibilities of architecture, understanding novel spatial-political relationships within social-ecological dynamic interactions.
Founders:
MLA Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley.
B.Arch / M.Arch, U. Finis Terrae.
Diego Romero Evans is co-founder of Dialectical Practices, post-graduate researcher at University of California, Berkeley, and adjunct faculty in the School of Architecture at Woodbury University - San Diego. He co-created “Resilient and Human Santiago Initiative” a public design competition housed in the resilient metropolitan strategy sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2013, he co-founded Romero Silva Arquitectos, practice that he directed until 2018. Romero-Silva´s work has been awarded and disseminated in architectural design specialized media.
MLA 2022, UC Berkeley.
Architect, U. Finis Terrae.
Victoria Mohr Ferrón is co-founder of Dialectical Practices. Her work explores speculative interactions between science, architecture and landscape to rethink the form, material, and function of resilient infrastructure. She has collaborated with renowned interdisciplinary practices around the world, such as Studio Tomás Saraceno, GUN Architects, and Studio Guto Requena.
Contributors:
B.Arch / M.Arch 2021 - U. Santa María.
Ricardo Vivanco is a graduate architecture student who is interested in parametric design, digital fabrication and applied digital media. He has participated in multiple competitions that engage technological tools, social justice, and architecture. Such as the US DOE’s Solar Decathlon and developing a modular platform design as a STEM tool to assist in early engineering education.
Ph.D. Harvard University.
MLA with distinction, Harvard University.
BS Geology, Tufts University.
Kristina Hill is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Hill studies urban ecology and hydrology in relationship to physical design and social justice issues. Her primary area of work is in adapting urban districts and shorezones to the new challenges associated with climate change. Prof. Hill currently focuses her research on adaptation and coastal design in the San Francisco Bay Area, but engages in comparative studies in the US Mid-Atlantic, Europe, and Hawaii. Professor Hill lectures internationally on urban design and ecology.
MA in Art Production and Investigation, Universitat de Barcelona.
Architect, U. de Chile.
Bruno Giliberto is a photographer whose work investigates how people colonize and form dialectical relationships with their surroundings. Through the documentation of ceremonial gatherings, Bruno aims to capture how each culture creates a unique atmosphere and the way that celebration unfolds within it.
B.Arch / M.Arch, U. Finis Terrae.
Sebastián Erazo is an architect and designer who is specialized in wood. His interest began while he was working with Martin Hurtado Arquitectos, a Chilean architecture practice renowned for their exploration of big-scale wooden structures.Since 2008, he has been building furniture where he focuses on joinery solutions, a practice that allows him to explore the technique directly with his hands. In 2019, together with the architect Stefano Pugliese, he directed his first workshop on the conception and construction of small wooden architecture, in Izmir, Turkey.