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Luis Callejas is an architect, professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and founder of LCLA OFFICE. Recently he is also visiting professor in landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In the past, he taught architecture at Yale as Louis Khan visiting professor (2020), architecture and landscape architecture at Harvard (2012-2016), The Scola da Cidade in São Paulo (2011) and The University of Toronto as visiting professor in Urban Design (2012). He was the recipient of the Patrick Geddes fellowship at the University of Edinburgh.
He is the director of the Practice and Design Techniques research group at AHO.
Completed public works include design of the exterior areas in the renovation of the former US embassy in Oslo designed by Eero Saarinen, the renovation of the National Stadium in Colombia and the aquatic sports centre in Medellin for the IX South American games. His studio currently develops projects for the Norwegian Scenic Routes in Norway.
Luis Callejas lectures widely in Europe, North America and Latin America, he has participated in major biennales over the past decade, including the Venice biennale, Lisbon Triennale, Oslo Triennale, Seoul biennale and the Versailles biennale. His research has addressed the intersection of architecture and landscape architecture, studying their shared design-research techniques and tropes, as well as their shared historic encounters when addressing climate change through design. He was awarded the Lissone design prize in 2024, The Modernism in America Award of Excellence and the Architecture League of New York prize for young architects among others. He has served as jury for many competitions, including the Iberoamerican architecture biennale, the Barcelona landscape biennale and the Holcim Award for Sustainable Architecture.
His books include Pamphlet Architecture 33: Islands and Atolls (Princeton Architectural Press), editor of Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate (Routledge), Houses in forest clearings (Actar) and the series Under-Under (Arkitektfaglig Press).
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Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Practice and design techniques
Design Research