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Gabriel Vergara

Gabriel Vergara is an architect and graduate of the Architecture and Urban Design program at Columbia GSAPP, where he serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor. He has also taught landscape and urban design at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Universidad Andrés Bello, and Universidad de Talca in Chile.

Gabriel is co-founder of Friends Making Work, a design collective based in NYC. His practice uses a multi-scalar approach, combining material interventions, architecture and urban design. Through collaborative research and practice, he explores alternative narratives to the status quo of building. His most recent projects and exhibitions have been presented in Prague, Providence, Bangkok, Ciudad Juárez and New York. He has also contributed to major exhibitions, including Center for Architecture Lab Residency, XXII Bienal de Aquitectura y Urbanismo de Chile, and the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Previously, he co-founded Susuka, an architecture studio based in Chile and the local branch of Supersudaca in Santiago, his work has been published in Domus, Arquitectura Viva, Arquine, and The Architectural Review, among others. Gabriel has collaborated with organizations across the U.S. and Latin America, including the Center for Justice Innovation and Asia Initiatives in New York, as well as AriztiaLAB in Santiago. He has also worked with architecture and urban design firms such as 51-1 Arquitectos in Peru and One Architecture & Urbanism in New York, where he contributed to coastal resiliency projects and the publication Building with Nature: Creating, Implementing, and Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions.

Recent Work

Churchite with Susuka. Photo by Cristobal Palma.

Planetary Home Improvement Deep Section by Friends Making Work.

Designing with Dust by Friends Making Work. Photo by Nachaphon Worachuttharn.

Kiltro House with Susuka. Photo by Cristobal Palma.

DEPAVE, An Ecological Repair of the Ground by Friends Making Work. Photo by Asya Gorovits.

Cove House with Christine Giorgio.

Courses

Course	Semester	Title	Student Work	Instructor	Syllabus	Requirements & Sequence	Location & Time	Session & Points	Call No.
ARCH6851‑1	Spring 2026	Urban Design Studio III		Iñaki Echeverria, Geeta Mehta, Gabriel Vergara, Adriana Chavez, Akemi Sato, Lidia Ratoi		UD Only Urban Design Studio UD Required	206 Fayerweather M, TH 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM, F 2 PM - 4 PM	Full Semester 9 Points	12076
ARCH6851‑1	Spring 2025	Urban Design Studio III		Kate Orff, Geeta Mehta, Emanuel Admassu, Gabriel Vergara, Lucas Coelho Netto, Sebastian Delpino		Urban Design Studio UD Required	206 FAY / 114 AVAERY M + TH (1:30 PM- 6:30 PM), F (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)	FULL SEMESTER 9 Points	11294

Recent News

Faculty Amelyn Ng '19 MSCCCP, Christine Giorgio '19 MArch, and Faculty Gabriel Vergara '19 MSAUD (Friends Making Work) exhibit Ecologies of Repair in Indexical Earths exhibition at Swale House on Governors Island.

Faculty Amelyn Ng '19 MSCCCP, Christine Giorgio '19 MArch, and Faculty Gabriel Vergara '19 MSAUD (Friends Making Work) presents their research on depots and material recirculation at the 11th Annual Soil Symposium: Soils Building Health.

Faculty Amelyn Ng, Faculty Gabriel Vergara, and Christine Giorgio '19 M.Arch (Friends Making Work) co-cost "D.I.Y. DEPAVE Lunch and Learn" event with Arif Khan at the Center for Architecture, New York.

Faculty Amelyn Ng '19 CCCP, Faculty Gabriel Vergara '19 MSAUD, and Christine Giorgio '19 MARCH (Friends Making Work) present their exhibition *DEPAVE: An Ecological Repair of the Ground* at the Center for Architecture

Faculty Amelyn, Gabriel Vergara '19 MSAUD, Christine Giorgio '19 M.Arch, and Pimchid Chariyacharoen '25 MSAAD are leading a Designing with Dust workshop in Bangkok, Thailand, with Thammasat Design School students

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Faculty Amelyn Ng, along with Gabriel Vergara ’19 MSAUD and Christine Giorgio ’19 M.Arch (Friends Making Work), are selected among the 2026 Center for Architecture Lab residents for their project, DEPAVE: An Ecological Repair of the Ground

Oct 5, 2025

Faculty Amelyn Ng, Gabriel Vergara '19 MSAUD, and Christine Giorgio '19 MARCH win an award in the Otras Practicas category at the Chilean Architecture and Urbanism Biennial.

Faculty Amelyn Ng, Gabriel Vergara '19 MSAUD, and Christine Giorgio '19 MARCH exhibit D.E.P.O.T. / prácticas domésticas brutas at the Chilean Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, in collaboration with local partner Nowü Hogar.