Born in Santiago de Chile, Benjamin Pollak is an architect and designer trained at the Rice University’s School of Architecture in Houston, Texas. After graduating from Rice University, he worked for seven years in offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New York, and Princeton. He also graduated from the master’s of architecture post-professional program at Harvard University Graduate ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ (GSD). He is driven by the combination of design, architectural history, and materiality. His interests are but not limited to architecture as a time medium, preservation and conservation, site and place as a possible architecture project, the combination of pedagogy and practice, and speculative architectural practices. He is also a project architect at Sanders Pace Architecture in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Education
Bachelor of Architecture, Rice University
Master of Architecture II, Harvard University
Expertise & Interests
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Architectural History
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Preservation
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Combination of Architectural Practice and Pedagogy
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Speculative Architectural Practices