Gabriel Vergara Gajardo

Gabriel Vergara is an architect and urban designer. A graduate of the architecture and urban design program at Columbia GSAPP, he is currently an urban designer at the nonprofit Asia Initiatives, an assistant professor at Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB) in Chile and a critic in RISD’s Landscape Architecture department. Gabriel is also a collaborator with the NYC-based architecture practice Means of Egress.

As a member of multidisciplinary design teams, Gabriel has collaborated with organizations in the US and Latin America, including the Center for Justice Innovation in New York, the Art Museum of Ciudad Juárez (MACJ) in Mexico and AriztiaLAB in Santiago. He has contributed to architecture and urban design firms such as One Architecture & Urbanism, working on coastal resiliency projects and the recent publication Building with Nature: Creating, Implementing, and Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions, as well as 51-1 Arquitectos in Peru.

Co-founder of Susuka, an architecture studio based in Chile and the local brand of Supersudaca in Santiago, his work has been published internationally and was featured in the Chilean Pavilion at the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2010.