EDUARDO PIZARRO
architect . urban designer
Professor at the Department of Technology at FAU-USP (2024 -), focusing on Professional Practice, Representation and Quantitative Methods.
Doctor (2019), Master (2014) and Graduated (2012) from FAU-USP. He carried out research internships at ETH Zurich (Switzerland, 2017) and at the Architectural Association Graduate School, AA (England, 2013), both with a FAPESP scholarship linked to the doctorate and master's degree. Pizarro has always focused on investigating public spaces and urban interstices as potential for a critical and purposeful reading in the face of environmental, morphological and social challenges inherent to the city, in its specificities and vulnerabilities.
He served as Advisor to the President’s Office at the Council of Architecture and Urbanism of São Paulo, CAU/SP (2021-2024), dedicated to the construction and monitoring of its Strategic Planning, in addition to Structural Projects such as the Technical Residence; the Occupation and Cultural Activation of the headquarters in conjunction with the agents and dynamics of the local territory; the creation of the Center of Cultural Institutions of the Historic Center of São Paulo, NICHO, involving Caixa Cultural, CAU/SP, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Fundação Theatro Municipal, Museu da Bolsa do Brasil and Pateo do Collegio; the structuring of the Agenda for the Future in Architecture and Urbanism (2023-2033); in addition to Technical Cooperation Agreements with the City of São Paulo, IPHAN-SP, ONU-Habitat and the Fundação Theatro Municipal de São Paulo.
He was a Professor at Universidade São Judas, USJT (2018-2024), in addition to holding short courses, workshops and lectures in São Paulo, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Detroit, London, Lisbon, Zurich, Berlin, Tromso, Moscow, Ahmedabad, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Cairo.
He organized and published independent productions, as well as articles in the magazines such as L'Architecture d'aujourd’hui, Urban Design London, Paisagem e Ambiente, LabVerde, Vitruvius and Archdaily. He also participated in the 11th, 12th and 13th São Paulo Architecture Biennials.
He designed and built CASA DE TODO DIA, in the Paraisópolis Favela, a prototype that experiments the application of simple and ordinary materials in the environmental qualification of self-built houses.
Pizarro received national and international awards such as: Young Scientist Award, promoted by CNPq, Fundação Roberto Marinho, Gerdau and GE, and presented by the President of the Republic (Brasília, 2012); awards from the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction (Detroit and Cairo, 2016); Most Innovative Design Award from Passive and Low Energy Architecture, PLEA (Hong Kong, 2018); and Award from the Quito Pan-American Architecture Biennial by Revista Móbile do CAU/SP (Quito, 2022).