teaching //

HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO / PROFESSOR

Principal and founder of Xefirotarch, Based in Los Angeles, considered one of the most influential voices of his generation. For the last several years he has been a studio design and visual studies professor and is the Thesis coordinator at SCI-ARC Los Angeles. He is also design studio professor at the GSAPP - Columbia University, New York and Professor at University fur Angewandte Kunst Wien. He received his Architecture degrees from the National University of Rosario, Argentina and from Columbia University's AAD Program from which he graduated from with honors and received several design awards. In 1996, he worked as a designer in the office of Enric Miralles in Barcelona and in 2000-2001 he was senior designer at Eisenman Architects in New York.

Diaz Alonso has lectured widely in major institutions around the world. His architectural designs have received numerous awards and have been exhibited in both architecture and art museums including // 2006 // London Biennale / Beijing Biennale / Korea Art Biennale // 2005 // Washington National Building Museum / Archilab France // 2004 // Venice Biennale / Metamorphose: Archilab / Beijing Biennale / "Glamour" // 2003 // Artist Space: Rotterdam Biennale: "Beyond Media", Florence Italy. His work has been largely published in most of the major magazines and multiple books, including the Monograph "Excessive". His work has been exhibited in solo shows at the San Francisco MoMa in 2006, the Art Institute of Chicago the MAK centre in Vienna in 2007 and the Pompidou Center in 2008-2009. In 2005 he was the winner of the PS1 MOMA, New York Young Architect Program Pavilion. His work is part of the permanent collections of the FRAC, the San Francisco MoMa, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the New York MoMa.

Design Studio //

Hernan Diaz Alonso << Head Professor
Steven Ma / Reiner Zettl << Assistant Professor
Julia Koerner << Studio Assistant

Theory // John McMorrough / Reiner Zettl
Engineering // Klaus Bollinger
Digital Workshop 1 // Steven Ma
Digital Workshop 2 // Matias Del Campo
Digital Workshop 3 // Joerg Hugo
Digital Workshop 4 // Florencia Pita
Scripting // Nick Pucket
Materials Lab // Marcelo Spina
Program Manager // Angelika Zelisko
Guest Professors // Peter Noever / Sanford Kwinter / Eric Owen Moss / Wolf Prix / Jeff Kipnis / Tom Kovac / Kivi Sotamaa / Francois Roche / Brad Steele / Emmanuelle Petit / Ali Rahim ...