Renato D’Alençon Castrillón is an Architect, graduated from the School of Architecture of the P. Universidad Católica de Chile, and M. Arch. graduated from Cornell University. He was awarded a Fulbright Grant from 2002 to 2004 to pursue his Master’s, and a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Grant to pursue a PhD Degree in the Technische Universität Berlin. He has taught Design Studios and Building Technology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in the areas of architectural design and building technology. He has been Guest Faculty at the University of Chile, Politecnico di Milano and Technische Universität Berlin. He currently works at Universidad Católica de Chile in research, teaching and as Academic Deputy Director.

His field of scholarly work includes environmental design and performance of buildings, area where he published the book “Acondicionamientos” (Ediciones ARQ, Santiago 2008) and several articles; the recovery and development of heritage building systems, an area which has published the book “Eingewanderte Baumeister” (DOM Publishers, Berlin 2014) and other publications product of his research in catastrophes management and heritage recovery (Reclaiming Heritage www.reclaimingheritage.org); and in the area of Circular Economy in Architecture, in which he leads the research group “RRR: Economía Circular en Arquitectura” (http://arquitectura.uc.cl/investigacion/grupos.html?view=grupos&groupId=11).