Cazú Zegers

Founder & Director - Cazú Zegers Architecture Studio

Named among the Latin American architects who break down barriers by Forbes Magazine in 2020, the same period that she was named visiting professor at Yale University. She is co-creator of the collaborative and educational platform Andes Workshop, together with Grupo Talca and the founder of Foundation +1000. Zegers and her architectural practice have a strong social focus and a rootedness in the territory the architectural projects take place. As well as a constant look to integrate sustainable solutions and the territories local processes. Her projects cover a wide range of multidisciplinary research, going through the different scales from the territorial to the object. Cazú Zegers covers from the tangible and intangible, encompassing the construction of strategies that generate new narratives about the territory, whose center is the constant question about the being of Latin America. Her works have been awarded the Versailles Grand Prix, the National Geographic Unique Lodge of the World Award and the Great Latin American Prize for Architecture (1994), among others. In 2021 she received the Dora Riedler distinction for her innovation in architecture and today she leads as an expert in ethnoarchitecture and ethnoengineering in Latin America, creating methodologies and infrastructure for indigenous communities. "The territory is to America, as the Monuments are to Europe'' phrase that coined the concept that Cazú Zegers defends through her architecture.