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Pedro Correa Fernández is a Doctoral Candidate in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. Before joining GSAPP, he was an adjunct professor at the Architecture School of Universidad Católica de Chile where he taught seminars and lectures on architecture history and related epistemological, aesthetic, and political issues. His current work examines the mediations between technical knowledge, artisanal crafts, and global industrial capitalism in early nineteenth-century Latin America.Pedro holds an architecture degree from Universidad Católica de Chile and a master's in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices from Columbia University. He is currently working as a Research Assistant in the History of Technology, Architecture, and Media Lab at the école Polytechnique de Lausanne, where he also teaches architecture history. Education Ph.D. Candidate | 2019 – 2019 GSAPP, Columbia University Ms.Sc. Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices | 2014 – 2016 GSAPP, Columbia University Architect | 2006 – 2012 EARQ Universidad Católica de Chile Professionals experiences Adjunct Professor 2016–2019 Universidad Católica de ChileTeaching Fellow 2020–2022 GSAPP, Columbia UniversityScientific Assistent 2022–2022 EPFL ResearchRegimes of Making. South America 1830 - 1860 In his ongoing dissertation project, titled Regimes of Making: Arts and Industries at the Margins of the Industrial Revolution, 1830-1860, Pedro charts the historical bonds connecting and dividing art and industry in Latin America before their decisive separation ca. 1850. With a focus on the materials and techniques negotiating the technical and the artisanal, the project aims to reconstruct an alternative project of enlightenment that arose briefly after independence and persisted despite these countries' swift subordination to the industrial North. The end of Industry as a political project in South America and the rise of Art, in the singular, are two sides of a single historical process whose implications, this research hopes to demonstrate, have yet to be fully accounted for. Teaching & PhD Courses Data centers: architecture,environment,information AR-517 This seminar aims to investigate the prehistory of the building type of our century: the data center. Through weekly readings and discussions, we will investigate how apparently immaterial regimes of information turned nature into data through a series of built artifacts since the 19th century. Data centers: architecture,environment,information (for PhDs) AR-691 This seminar aims to investigate the prehistory of the building type of our century: the data center. Through weekly readings and discussions, we will investigate how apparently immaterial regimes of information turned nature into data through a series of built artifacts since the 19th century.