Hernan Diaz-Alonso

Hernan Diaz Alonso is the principal and founder of Xefirotarch, an award winning design firm in Architecture, Product and Digital Motion based in Los Angeles, consider one of the most influential voices of his generation, For the last several years he as been, a studio design and visual studies professor and is the Thesis coordinator at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, he is also design studio professor at the GSAPP - Columbia University, New York and visiting professor at Universitat fur angewandte Kurst Wien.
He received his architecture degrees from the National University of Rosario, Argentina, and from Columbia University's AAD Program, from which he graduated from with honors and received several design awards. In 1996, he worked as a designer in the office of Enric Miralles in Barcelona and in 2000-2001 he was senior designer at Eisenman Architects in New York.
Diaz Alonso has lecture widely in the the major institution around the world such as: Architectural Association of London, MIT, University at Penn; Archilab, Orleans France; IDCA Conference, Aspen Colorado; U C at Berkeley; Pratt Institute, UCLA, Columbia University; Princeton University; Sciarc, etc
His architecture design designs have received numerous awards and have been exhibited in both architecture and art museum including // 2006 London Biennale Beijing Biennale, Korea Art Biennale / 2005 Washington National Building Museum, Archilab France /2004 Venice Biennale, Metamorphose; Archilab, Beijing Biennale; "Glamour",2003 / Artist Space; Rotterdam Biennale; "Beyond Media", Florence Italy, etc
His work has been largely published in most of the major magazines and periodicals worldiwe and multiple books, his first monograph will be publish in 2007.
His work has been exhibited in the solo shows at the San Francisco MoMa in 2006, the Art Institute in Chicago and MAK centre in Vienna in 2007, and the Pompidou Center in 2008 / 2009 and in 2005 was the winner of the PS1 MoMa, New York, Young architect Program Pavilion.
His work is part of the permanent collections of the FRAC, the San Francisco MoMa and the New York MoMa.