Gabriel Vergara

Gabriel Vergara is an architect and urban designer. A graduate of the Architecture and Urban Design program at Columbia GSAPP, he currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at Columbia GSAPP and collaborates with the NYC-based architecture practice Means of Egress. Gabriel has also taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Universidad Andrés Bello, and Universidad de Talca in Chile.

As a member of multidisciplinary design teams, Gabriel has collaborated with organizations in the U.S. and Latin America, including the Center for Justice Innovation and Asia Initiatives in New York, as well as AriztiaLAB in Santiago. He has also contributed to architecture and urban design firms such as 51-1 Arquitectos in Peru and One Architecture & Urbanism in New York, where he worked on coastal resiliency projects and the recent publication Building with Nature: Creating, Implementing, and Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions.

His most recent work includes exhibitions such as Bordær: Cartographies and Narratives of Migration at the Art Museum of Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, D.E.P.O.T. / Gross Domestic Practices at the Bayard Ewing Building Gallery in Providence, and Planetary Home Improvement: From Just-in-Time to Geological Time at VI PER Gallery in Prague.

As a former co-founder of Susuka, an architecture studio based in Chile and the local branch of Supersudaca in Santiago, his work has been published in magazines such as Domus, Arquitectura Viva, Arquine, and PLOT, among others, and was featured in the Chilean Pavilion at the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2010.