Gabriel Vergara is an Architect and Urban Designer. Through collaborative research and practice, he explores stories and narratives through the lens of underrepresented actors and related disciplines. His design practice advocates for a multidisciplinary approach, bringing alternative knowledge to the field of architecture and urban design. A graduate of the Architecture and Urban Design program at Columbia GSAPP, he is currently Urban Designer at non-profit Asia Initiatives, where he leads participatory design in New York and coordinates community-based projects in Chile.

Member of multidisciplinary design teams. Most recently, awarded the William Bullock Prize for critical museography by the USC Fisher Museum of Art and MUAC in Mexico for Bordær: Cartographies and Narratives of Migration project developed in collaboration with the civic organization Juntas Vamos. Past collaborations include projects with organizations in the US and Latin-American such as The Center for Court Innovation in New York and AriztiaLAB in Santiago on Santiago Babylon, a research project developed for the XX Bienal de Arquitectura de Chile. He has worked at architecture and urban design firms such as One Architecture & Urbanism on coastal resiliency projects and the recent publication Building with Nature: Creating, implementing, and upscaling Nature-Based Solutions and 51-1 Arquitectos in Peru.

Co-founder of Susuka, an architecture studio based in Chile and the local brand of Supersudaca in Santiago, his work has been published internationally and included in the Chilean Pavilion at the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture.