Gabriel Vergara Gajardo

Gabriel Vergara Gajardo is an architect and urban designer currently serving as an Assistant Professor at Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB) in Chile and a Critic in the Landscape Architecture department at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He is also an urban designer at the nonprofit Asia Initiatives and a collaborator with the NYC-based Means of Egress architecture practice.

• Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP): Architecture and Urban Design

His professional expertise centers on architecture, urban design, and coastal resiliency projects. He has contributed to nature-based solutions for urban challenges, including the publication Building with Nature: Creating, Implementing, and Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions, and has collaborated with organizations like the Center for Justice Innovation (New York), the Art Museum of Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), and AriztiaLAB (Santiago). His work bridges academic instruction at UNAB and RISD with practical urban interventions across Latin America and the U.S.

• Featured in the Chilean Pavilion at the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture (2010)

As co-founder of Susuka, an architecture studio in Chile and part of the Supersudaca network, his projects have been internationally published. His email address is gvergara@risd.edu.