Dr. Juan Almarza Anwandter

Juan Almarza Anwandter is a Chilean architect, academic and artist based in Berlin. He graduated in Architecture from Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, in 1997, and obtained a Magister in Theory and History of Art from Universidad de Chile in 2017. His professional experience of more than 25 years has focused primarily on residential architecture and private housing, also encompassing interior and furniture design.

Since 2000, he has combined his professional practice with teaching at various institutions, first in Chile and now in Germany. His research interests focus primarily on aesthetic theory, particularly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, phenomenology, and critical theory of the arts. In 2020, he obtained a doctorate in philosophy from Technische Universität Berlin with a thesis on Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of Grand Style and its relationship to architectural theory.

He currently works as a Teaching and Research Associate at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Whitecliffe Berlin, where he teaches Introduction to Architectural Design.