Marcelo Bernal

Marcelo Bernal, has developed his career between the professional practice and the academia. He is the principal of Arqze ltd, architectural office dedicated to the design, fabrication, and installation of mobile deployable infrastructure for Antarctica. He was also the Director of the Undergraduate program at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile. Currently, he is the Co-Director of the Design Process Lab at Perkins+Will, an interdisciplinary research-based architecture and design firm. The scope of his area of research includes meta-modeling of design expertise, multi-criteria optimization to support decision-making, and workflows for design automation. He is the past Vice-President of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, where now he serves as advisory board member.