Azócar Catrón

AZÓCAR CATRÓN

selected works

2016-2023

ABOUT

AZÓCAR CATRÓN is the architecture studio of Ricardo Azócar and Carolina Catrón, founded in Concepción, south of Chile, in 2016. Together they explore the boundaries between architecture, art, landscape, and urban strategies through public works, books, exhibitions, and teaching.

Ricardo Azócar is an architect from the Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile, and holds a Master's degree in Theory, History, and Culture of Architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain.

Carolina Catrón is an architect and holds a Master's degree from the Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile, and is a PhD (c) in Architecture and Urbanism at the UBB and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain.

Their work has been recognized with the Young Architect Award from the Chilean College of Architects (Catrón, 2025), the New Generations Award at the XVII Costa Rica International Architecture Biennial (2024), the MA Emerging Award, Chile (2023); the First Prize at Arquine No. 23, Mexico (2021), the Best Young Practices Award from ArchDaily (2020), the Distinguished Work Award at the XXI Architecture and Urbanism Biennial of Chile (2019), Finalist at Young Architects in Latin America, XVI Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy (2018) and the Breakthrough Work Award from the Concepción College of Architects, Chile (2016), among others.

The studio's work has been exhibited at: Gallery House Zurich, Switzerland (2025); XXIII Architecture and Urbanism Biennial of Chile, Santiago (2025); IX Santa Cruz Architecture Biennial, Bolivia (2024); XII Barcelona International Landscape Biennial, Spain (2023); XXII Architecture and Urbanism Biennial of Chile, Santiago (2022); Mextropoli, Mexico City, Mexico (2021); VII Santa Cruz Architecture Biennial, Bolivia (2020); XXI Pan-American Biennial of Quito, Ecuador (2020); XI Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, Asunción, Paraguay (2019); Art Gallery, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago (2019); XXI Architecture and Urbanism Biennial of Chile, Santiago (2019); Museum of Architecture and Design, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019); Arc en Rêve, Centre d'architecture, Bordeaux, France (2018); XVI Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2018). XIV International Architecture Biennial of Costa Rica, San José (2018) and XX Architecture and Urbanism Biennial of Chile, Valparaíso (2017).

Among other institutions, they have given lectures at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2024), Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile (2024); Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile (2023), Young Architects Festival, Constructo-Chile (2023), Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile (2022), Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile (2022), Colegio de Arquitectos de Oaxaca, México (2022), Universidad de la República de Uruguay (2021); Colegio de Arquitectos de Costa Rica (2020); Universidad La Gran Colombia (2020); Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de Chile (2019), Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile (2019); MARQ, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2019), Universidad de Talca, Chile (2018) and Universidad San Sebastián, Chile (2018).

Together they have been teaching regularly at various universities in Chile since 2018.