112 W. Center St., Suite 700
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone (479) 575-4945
Fax (479) 575-7429
112 W. Center St., Suite 700
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone (479) 575-4945
Fax (479) 575-7429
Sergio Palleroni teaches architecture and sustainable design and development at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development. He has worked on housing and community development in the developing world since the 1970s, both for not-for-profit, governmental and international development and relief agencies such as the United Nations as well as the governments of Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, India and Tunisia. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and design work for underserved communities, including the National Design Award from the Smithsonian Institution and the White House Millenium Project in 2005. His books include Time & Other Constructs: The Work of Carlos Miijares, co-authored with Rodolfo Santamaria (Escala Press, 1989); Studio at Large; Architecture in Service of Global Communities, with Christine Merkelbach (University of Washington Press, 2004); and Teaching Sustainability in Asia (NTUT Press, 2006). In addition, his work has appeared in numerous international magazines and publications including, most recently, Design Like You Give a Damn, by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr (Metropolis Books, 2006) and Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism, edited by Bryan Bell (Metropolis Books, 2008).
Palleroni earned his professional BArch from the University of Oregon and his MSArchS in History Theory & Criticism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught at the University of Washington for 12 years, where he co-founded the BaSiC Initiative with Professors David Riley and Steve Badanes.