Pedro Correa Fernandez
EPFL ENAC IA HITAM
BP 4140 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://hitam.epfl.ch
Biography
Pedro Correa Fernández is a Doctoral Candidate in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. Before joining GSAPP, he was an adjunct professor at the Architecture School of Universidad Católica de Chile where he taught seminars and lectures on architecture history and related epistemological, aesthetic, and political issues. His current work examines the mediations between technical knowledge, artisanal crafts, and global industrial capitalism in early nineteenth-century Latin America.Pedro holds an architecture degree from Universidad Católica de Chile and a master’s in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices from Columbia University. He is currently working as a Research Assistant in the History of Technology, Architecture, and Media Lab at the École Polytechnique de Lausanne, where he also teaches architecture history.
Professional course
Adjunct Professor
Universidad Católica de Chile
2016 - 2019
Teaching Fellow
GSAPP, Columbia University
2020 - 2022
Scientific Assistent
EPFL
2022 -
Education
Ph.D. Candidate
GSAPP, Columbia University
2019 -
Ms.Sc. Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices
GSAPP, Columbia University
2014 - 2016
Architect
EARQ Universidad Católica de Chile
2006 - 2012
Publications
Selected publications
| Pedro Correa Fernández Materia Arquitectura 20 (December, 2020) |
"An Imagined Race and its Architectural Defense. Modernism and Racial Discourse in Chile 1938-1941" |
| Reinhold Martin, Pedro Correa Fernández, José G. Lemaître Palma ARQ 99 (September, 2018) |
"On Infrastructure" |
| Pedro Correa, Fernando Portal, Rayna Razmilic, Fernando Carvajal Ediciones ARQ, 2021 |
Lo Nuevo de Nuevo. Bienal y Arquitectura en Chile [The New, Again. Biennial and Architecture in Chile] |
| Pedro Correa, Pedro Alonso (eds.) Ediciones ARQ, 2019 - |
Anales de Arquitectura |
| Pedro Correa Fernández Materia Arquitectura 16 (May 2018) |
"The Place of Criticism" |
| Pedro Correa Fernández Landscape is not Nature (Ediciones ARQ, 2020) |
"Nature of the Metropolis" / "The Stubborn Nature of Nature" |
Research
Regimes of Making. South America 1830 - 1860
In his ongoing dissertation project, titled Regimes of Making: Arts and Industries at the Margins of the Industrial Revolution, 1830-1860, Pedro charts the historical bonds connecting and dividing art and industry in Latin America before their decisive separation ca. 1850. With a focus on the materials and techniques negotiating the technical and the artisanal, the project aims to reconstruct an alternative project of enlightenment that arose briefly after independence and persisted despite these countries’ swift subordination to the industrial North. The end of Industry as a political project in South America and the rise of Art, in the singular, are two sides of a single historical process whose implications, this research hopes to demonstrate, have yet to be fully accounted for.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Architecture