Pablo Castillo Luna

Pablo Castillo is a Canary Islands-born architect. He holds an MArch II with distinction from Harvard GSD, where he received the Harvard GSD Architecture Faculty Design Award 2023. He is the co-founder of à la sauvette, an architecture practice dedicated to design, research and cultural production focused on investigating the intersections between architecture, sociology and politics. Their research on collective celebrations in the public space was awarded at the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism with the project Bailar La Ciudad (2023) and at Future Architecture Platform (Dance Is Politics, 2020). à la sauvette’s work has been exhibited at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Lisbon, 2022), Driving the Human Festival (Berlin, 2019) and The Movement Forum (London, Paris, Lisbon, 2019), among others.  

Pablo’s installations and projects have been exhibited at the Harvard Arts FIRST Festival (Cambridge, 2023) and the Center for Architecture (NYC, 2022) and published in Pidgin (Princeton, 2023) and L’Atelier (EPFL, 2020). In addition to teaching at RISD, he teaches at Wentworth Institute of Technology and holds a research position at Harvard GSD.

Prior to his graduate studies, Pablo obtained a diploma and an MArch from the ULPGC, Gran Canaria, Spain, where he lived and practiced architecture and photography.