Mayoral Moratilla, José

José Mayoral Moratilla is an architect at ETSAS (2010), Master of Architecture at Harvard GSD (2014), and PhD at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and IUAV of Venice (2022). He has taught courses and workshops at various institutions, such as Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2016-2017) and Harvard GSD, where he was appointed ‘Teaching Associate’ and ‘Research Associate’ (2014-2015).

Since 2017, he is the founder of the architecture studio PRÁCTICA, winning 12 awards in architecture competitions. In addition, he has worked in several international architecture firms: among them, Herzog & de Meuron, in Basel, Switzerland, (2010-2012) and Abalos-Sentkiewicz, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, (2014).

Recently, he has curated the XX Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism of Chile entitled ‘Dialogos lmpostergables’. His work has been exhibited at MoMa (2015) and he has designed the ‘Ephemeral Urbanism Pavilion’ (2016) and the ‘Somes River’ pavilion (2021) at the Venice Architecture Biennale. His publications include: co-author of the book ‘Ephemeral Urbanism: Cities in Constant Flux’ (2016), co-editor of the book ‘Planning with Conservation: Looking at Agra’ (2016), co-author and co-editor of the book ‘Ephemeral Urbanism: Does permanence matter?’ (2017), co-editor of the monograph ‘Hashim Sarkis Studios 1998-2017’ (2017) and guest editor of Materia Magazine (2019).

In addition, José Mayoral has received several grants and awards; among them, the ARQUIA grant (2010), the Talentia grant (2012-2014), the Faculty Design Award at Harvard GSD for the best student portfolio (2014) and the Conycit grant (2015-2019).