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.
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
Agios Theodoros House 4, Larnaca, Cyprus
Melody House Store, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Melody House Store, Abu Dhabi, UAE
House 1.2, Pervolia, Cyprus
House 1.2, Pervolia, Cyprus
House 1.2, Pervolia, Cyprus
House 4.3, Pervolia, Cyprus
House 4.3, Pervolia, Cyprus
House 1.4, Pervolia, Cyprus
Isla, Cambridge, USA
Under the Wings, Quito, Ecuador
Home Installation at Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Quito, Ecuador
Reverberations at Larnaca Biennale, Larnaca, Cyprus
Selected Exhibitions and Presentations
Pratt Institute, NY. “Levers Long Enough to Move the World”. (2026)