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.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
LDAR 2204-01
CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPES STUDIO
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This core studio stresses middle scale landscape architectural design. A series of studio problems will explore urban public spaces. Students will endeavor to represent contemporary cultural and ecological ideas in land form. There will be an emphasis on constructive strategies, the use of plants in design and methods of representation.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $250.00
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Landscape Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | MLA-I, MLA-II Landscape Architecture
LDAR 2251-02
MATERIAL LOGIC: WOOD, METAL, STONE, CONCRETE, SOIL
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course introduces students to the material properties of wood, metal, stone, concrete and soil. Through material experiments, hand drafted material details, 1:1 construction and material case studies, students will gain experience working with the materials to understand the inherent constraints and opportunities of each material. In addition, a series of field trips will help students understand the geographies of material extraction and the processes of assembly and installation.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department.
Major Requirement | MLA-I Landscape Architecture