Skip to content

Ernesto Carvajal

  • Design Teaching Fellow

Department

Contact

Academic Research Areas

  • Adaptive reuse
  • Architectural design
  • Architectural practice
  • Architectural representation
  • Architectural theory
  • Collaborative practice
  • Film/video/sound
  • Housing
  • Informality design
  • Infrastructure
  • Installation art
  • Photography

Ernesto Carvajal is an Ecuadorian designer, educator, and cofounder of Efimero, a design studio based in Cyprus and the United States. His work spans academic buildings, public installations, and international symposium curation and programming. His projects have been exhibited at Harvard University, the Larnaca Biennale, and venues in Boston, New York City, and internationally. His practice and teaching explore uncertainty, crisis, sustainability, and design as an intuitive and investigative process. He is also working on a forthcoming book, On Learning, which examines architectural pedagogy through a series of interviews with architects from around the world.

Carvajal holds a Master of Architecture II from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, an MSc in Sustainable Design with distinction from the University of Edinburgh, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Universidad San Francisco de Quito.

head and shoulders photo of a latino male with short dark hair and glasses

Academic Research Areas

  • Adaptive reuse
  • Architectural design
  • Architectural practice
  • Architectural representation
  • Architectural theory
  • Collaborative practice
  • Film/video/sound
  • Housing
  • Informality design
  • Infrastructure
  • Installation art
  • Photography

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Pratt Institute, NY. “Levers Long Enough to Move the World”. (2026)

  • Larnaca Biennale, Cyprus. Reverberations Installation.(2025)

  • Atmosferica, Ecuador. Behind the Curtains. (2024)

  • Casella Gallery at WIT, USA. On Learning. (2024)

  • Larnaca Biennale, Cyprus. Home Away from Home Pop-Up Gallery. (2023)

Related Links