Pablo Castillo Luna

Pablo Castillo is a Canary Islands-born architect. He is the cofounder of à la sauvette, an architecture practice dedicated to design, research, and cultural production focused on investigating the intersections between architecture, sociology, and politics. Their research on collective celebrations in the public space was awarded at the Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism with the project Bailar La Ciudad (2023) and at Future Architecture Platform with Dance Is Politics (2020). à la sauvette's work has been exhibited at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Lisbon, 2022), Driving the Human Festival (Berlin, 2019), and The Movement Forum (London, Paris, Lisbon, 2019), among others. 

Castillo's installations and projects have been exhibited at the Harvard Arts FIRST Festival (Cambridge, 2023) and the Center for Architecture (NYC, 2022) and published in Pidgin (Princeton, 2023) and L'Atelier (EPFL, 2020). In addition to teaching at RISD, he teaches at Wentworth Institute of Technology and holds a research position at Harvard GSD.

Castillo holds an M. Arch. II with distinction from Harvard GSD, where he received the Harvard GSD Architecture Faculty Design Award 2023. Prior to his graduate studies, Pablo obtained a diploma and an MArch from the ULPGC, Gran Canaria, Spain, where he lived and practiced architecture and photography.

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

  • Architectural design

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Classes (Selected)

  • ARCH 6605–105 (21307) Ordinary Breaks
  • ARCH 2101–504 (2676) Studio III

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

  • Harvard GSD Architecture Faculty Design Award (2023)
  • BEAU. Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, Spain (2023)
  • Future Architecture Platform Landscape of Care (2020)

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

  • Our Artificial Nature, Curated by Elizabeth Christoforetti. Harvard GSD (2023)
  • Ecosistemas.zip, Curated by Sol Caride Ferreyra, Miguel Fernández-Galiano, Jorge Mañas Álvarez, Pero Torres García-Cantó. Casa de La Arquitectura, Madrid, (2023)
  • Bailar La Ciudad, Cocurator with Ernesto Ibañez, Hector Suarez, Lila Suarez, Pablo Delgado, Jorge Rubio, and Victor Garcia Aleman. Centre for Audiovisual Culture, CCA Gran Canaria (2021)
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