Alfredo Thiermann Read Bio Collapse
Alfredo Thiermann is an architect and Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at the École polytechnique fédérale in Lausanne. Before EPFL, he taught at Harvard University and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Alfredo’s work has been published in Harvard Design Magazine, A+U, Revista ARQ, Revue Matières, Potlatch, Real Review, Thresholds, Archithese, GTA Papers, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and BauNetz, and has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago, the Istanbul Design Biennial, gta exhibitions in Zurich, and the Venice Art Biennale. He has been a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and the Collegium Helveticum in Zurich, and is the author of Radio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin published by MIT Press. He lives, works, and takes care of Pedro Tristán and Juan Nataniel between Lausanne and Berlin.
