Eduardo Berlin

Eduardo Berlin is an architect/entrepreneur born November 7, 1974 in Santiago.
Post-education
He graduated from The Grange School and obtained his degree at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, before moving to the United States in 2009 to pursue a Masters Degree (2011) at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
Professional career
Influenced by the tradition of Modern Architecture and the International Style and by masters such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra and Le Corbusier, Berlin formed his own design studio in Santiago de Chile in 2000, focusing primarily in single-family houses and multi-family residential projects amongst other work with particular bias toward sustainable design practices and technologies in a context based approach. His work has been published in various architectural magazines, journals and specialized books in the United States, China, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Dubai among others, and it includes residential (single-family, multi-family), retail, light-industrial, and mixed use projects, among others.
He has been an adjoined design studio professor at Universidad Diego Portales (2008-2009).
In 2011, Berlin founded MoDe Studio (Modern Development Studio LLC, a consulting, design and development workshop based in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 2013, he co-founded Mapdwell, a collective start-up of academics and researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and top professionals that creates open, user-oriented online mapping tools that spread knowledge in sustainable practices. Solar System, Mapdwell's urban solar map and first application, was hailed by The Smithsonian Magazine as "the most accurate solar map in the United States".
Awards
In 2010, he was awarded the Edward M. Gramlich Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Community Development by Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies and Neighbor Works of America, where he has conducted extensive research on Housing Policy and Information Models to drive consumer-driven sustainability.
His residential project House Nº2, he obtained the 3rd prize in the Project of the Year Award, awarded by Plataforma Arquitectura.
Personal life
Berlin lives in Boston, Massachusetts. He is married to journalist Pia Agliati. They have two daughters.

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu