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.
Courses
Fall 2023 Courses
ARCH 21ST-07 - ADVANCED STUDIO
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 6
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ARCH 21ST-07
ADVANCED STUDIO
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
PeriodFall 2023
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: MTH | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Pablo Castillo LunaEnrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
These studios, three of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00
Fee: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture
Spring 2024 Courses
ARCH 2142-03 - ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ARCH 2142-03
ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
PeriodSpring 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Pablo Castillo LunaLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 306Enrolled / Capacity: 17Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course will develop one's ability to critically read and understand architecture through formal, geometric, tectonic and spatial analytic processes. Analysis acts as an intermediary between observation, expression, and understanding, offering deep insights into works of architecture. The course builds upon the processes introduced in Architectural Projection. Through various conceptual and representational frameworks, the issues of mapping-layers. Point of view, scale, morphology, topography and tectonics will be explored as part of a larger creative process, embracing visual imagination, communication and critique.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $20.00 - $100.00
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Architecture Students.
