Rodrigo Valenzuela Jerez (1978) graduated in Architecture from Universidad de Chile (2003), Master of Fine Arts with a Major in Visual Arts from Universidad de Chile (2011), and Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University (2014).
He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant (2013), honoured with a Scholarship from the Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT-Chile) (2013), and a Scholarship from the National Fund for the Development of the Arts (FONDART-Chile) (2008).
He has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University (2014–2015), a visiting professor at the Universidad de Chile (2012 & 2019), and an assistant teacher at Universidad Diego Portales (2008–2010) in Santiago, Chile. He has also been a visiting professor in the Master of Architectural Design program at Universidad Central del Ecuador (2020–2021) and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2023). He is currently an associate professor at Universidad de las Américas in Santiago, Chile (2017–2025), and since 2021 has served as Director of the School of Architecture at UDLA.
In addition to teaching, he has engaged in practice-based research and scholarly artistic creation through articles, book chapters, interviews, exhibitions, audiovisual productions, and other publications. He has co-edited the books Esto no es Arquitectura (2023) and Casos, Cosas, Casas. Unscripted Depictions of a House (2024). Since 2021, he has served on the committee of the publishing house Ediciones Academia Espacial and as an associate researcher/creator at the Núcleo de Lenguaje y Creación of the FAADC, UDLA.
He has recently exhibited his work at Interiorismo (2025); the FAST – PALIMPSESTO Contemporary Art Fair (2024); the Centro Cultural de España in Santiago, Chile (2024); the BARCO Architecture Gallery (2021); and in the group exhibition Be My Quarantine at the Braga Museum, Portugal (2021). He also served on the scientific committees of the EDUMEET Ecotopies Congress (2024).
Between 2005-2013 he co-directed Murúa-Valenzuela Architects. The firm was focused on public architecture. Since 2014, he has developed an independent practice that conceives architecture as an expanded field, working under three formats: (E)StudioRO – (E)Studio Futur@ and RVJAA.
Some recognitions of his work include the Grand Prize at the XVII Biennale of Chilean Architecture for the co-design of the Licantén Public Library (2010), and the Silver Medal for Best Building in the Education category at the IV Mexican Architecture Biennial for the co-design of the EBC Banking and Commercial School in Aguascalientes, Mexico (2019).
