Diego Torres

Lead Architect, Elemental SA.

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Global Holcim Awards Finalist certificate 2012 handover for Sustainable post-tsunami reconstruction master plan, Constitucion, Chile (l-r): Fernando Palma, Corporate Commercial Director, Cemento Polpaico; members of the team from ELEMENTAL: Diego Torres, Alejandro Aravena, Juan Cerda, Victor Oddo, Christian Martínez; and Juan Fasani, Head of Corporate Communications at Cemento Polpaico and Holcim Awards Coordinator for Chile.
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Winners of the Holcim Awards Gold, Silver and Bronze 2011 Latin America (l-r): Alejandro Aravena, Juan Cerda and Diego Torres of ELEMENTAL S.A., Chile (Silver); Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, Urban Think Tank, Brazil (Gold); and Jose Castillo and Saidee Springall, arquitectura 911sc, Mexico
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Diego Torres is Lead Architect at Elemental SA. based in Santiago, Chile.

Last updated: January 01, 2010 Santiago, Chile

Diego Torres graduated from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2004. In 2003, he created the Equipo_Arquitectura practice together with Fernando García-Huidobro and Nicolás Tugas, with whom he conducted the research PREVI-Lima 30 años después. This work was published as Time Builds! in Gustavo Gili’s 2008 catalogue and exhibited in several venues such as the 2004 Iberoamerican Biennale in Lima and the 2010 Urban Art Biennale in Bordeaux.

A winner of the Elemental competition, he has been a part of the team since March 2004. As a member of Elemental’s permanent staff, he has been awarded the Silver Lion at the XI Venice Biennale, the Avonni Innovative Entrepreneurship Award in Chile and the Brit Insurance Architecture Award 2010. He has been Project Manager of several housing projects in Chile as well as projects in Mexico and the USA.

Diego Torres has also been studio co-professor at the Universidad Católica and combines his work at Elemental with his own private commissions.