Gonzalo Munoz-Vera

Biography

Gonzalo Munoz-Vera (Santiago, 1981) is a Chilean architect, Visiting Scholar at the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism at Carleton University, and PhD candidate at McGill University School of Architecture. Since 2005 he has studied the influence of images on architecture on printed media. Based in Montreal, his doctoral research topic deals with the increasing dominance of virtual reality and visual media in architecture. His aim has been focused on the role of nineteenth-century panoramas on architectural representation as proto-virtual media of distant places. From 2016 to 2018, he was the Project Manager of the awarded Canadian project TeamMTL at the Solar Decathlon China 2018. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the research project titled“Chilean Architecture in the CA Bulletin 1944-1963” awarded by the National Council for Culture and Arts (Chile, 2019-20). Gonzalo also was the P.I. of the 40th-anniversary research of the CA magazine (College of Architects of Chile publication), awarded by the same institution. In 2013, he joined the Advisory Committee of the Clip/Stamp/Fold exhibition (Santiago, Chile). He has been the recipient of Becas Chile Doctoral Scholarship from the Chilean government, Fulbright Chile, and the Schulich Excellence Fellowship at McGill University among other awards. He has been Guest Lecturer and Studio Instructor in schools of architecture in Chile, Colombia, and at McGill University.

Education
PhD Candidate – McGill University
MArch – McGill University
BArch (with high distinction) – University of Chile

Practice
2016-2017 Solar Decathlon – Team Montreal (McGill University)
2010-2011 LATERAL Arquitectura & Diseño
2007-2010 PLAN Arquitectos