Evelyn Alonso Rohner

Evelyn Alonso Rohner ES

http://www.alonso-sosa.com
Sor Ana 1 | 35310 Santa Brígida

B.A. (honors) and Pg. Dip. in Architecture (RIBA), University of Westminster, London; Ph.D (international award, cum laude) from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Evelyn´s professional career in architecture began in 2001, when she opened her first office. Since then, she has made many successful competition entries, including winning the Gold Medal in the Miami Beach Biennial, the Bering Strait International Competition, the refurbishment of the Basílica de Nuestra Merced (by Oíza y Gutiérrez 1949), and San Ginés, where she explored trans-disciplinary work in the context of urban space. In 2011, she co-founded Alonso + Sosa architects.

She teaches part-time at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and has been invited as a guest critic at Harvard University’s GSD, European University and KIT (Karlsruher Institute für Technologie). She has given lectures at, for example, the University of Genova, Miami University, and the Polytechnic of Madrid, and has been a jury member for awards and competitions such as the Oraa prize.

Her work and articles have appeared in many publications, including Future Arquitecturas, Arquitectura Viva, Palimpsesto, Rita (by Redfundamentos), ESTOA, and in compilations such as those edited by Silvana Editoriale and Tirant Lo Blanch.
She won the Arquia/tesis award for the best thesis of the year 2017 and 2020 published the book "Acciones infraordinarias, indeterminacy, discontinuity and entropy", his latest built work was
Alonso Rohner’s work has been exhibited around the world from Seoul to Canada, and she has recently finished a piece Transferencias Iberoamericanas for the BIAU XI (Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo) in Asunción, Paraguay.

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