Mayoral Moratilla, José

José Mayoral holds a PhD from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and IUAV University of Venice (2022). He has taught at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2016–2017), Harvard GSD, where he was appointed Teaching Associate and Research Associate (2014–2015), the Academy of Art University (2015–2023), and ETSAM (2021–present). He also holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard GSD (2014), where he received the award for best portfolio, and an architecture degree from the ETSA of Seville (2010).

Since 2018, he has been a founding partner of the architecture practice PRÁCTICA, with which he has received 22 awards in architectural competitions. His work has received, among other distinctions, the COAM Award (2021 and 2024) and the BIAU Award (2024). Previously, he worked at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland (2010–2012), and Ábalos-Sentkiewicz in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (2014).

He curated the 20th Chilean Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, titled Diálogos Impostergables. His work has been exhibited at MoMA (2015), and he co-designed the Ephemeral Urbanism Pavilion (2016) and the Somes River Pavilion (2021) at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

His publications include the books Ephemeral Urbanism: Cities in Constant Flux, Planning with Conservation: Looking at Agra, Ephemeral Urbanism: Does Permanence Matter?, and Hashim Sarkis Studios 1998–2017. He also served as guest editor of Materia magazine. José Mayoral has received several scholarships and distinctions, including the ARQUIA Scholarship, the Talentia Scholarship, the Harvard GSD Faculty Design Award, and the CONICYT Scholarship.