Alejandro Saldarriaga Rubio


2024 Summer Fellow
Alejandro Saldarriaga Rubio is a Colombian designer known for his work in architecture and ephemeral design. Born and raised in Bogota, Colombia, Alejandro has an international professional trajectory, having lived, and worked in various countries including Denmark, Switzerland, and the United States.

He holds a master’s degree in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and currently resides in Boston working as a Teacher and Research Fellow at Northeastern University. In 2020, he founded his architecture practice, ALSAR-ATELIER, during the midst of the pandemic. The studio is dedicated to investigating impermanent, low-tec, and need-based architectures derived from pandemic response design. Since its inception, ALSAR-ATELIER has produced a noteworthy line of projects work that has gained significant attention from local and international media. In 2023, ALSAR-ATELIER was included in the latest edition of Archdaily’s Best New Practices and was published in the November 2023 edition of DOMUS magazine.




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