Chris Pak Villalta

I am most invigorated when iteratively working with a broad range of materials, and hand drawing and sketching throughout a design process.

I seek to work in the threshold where architectural materiality and building details participate in a dialogue that is regionally specific to values and traditions in local building vernacular, across architectural tectonics, interior experiences, and landscape.

Media

Hand Drawing, Painting, Sketching, Photography, Casting Plaster and Concrete, Woodworking + Shop Equipment, Graphic Design

Revit, Rhino, V-Ray, Grasshopper, Bluebeam Revu, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier, Java, and Microsoft Office, Squarespace

Exhibitions

2021

17th Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Virtual Pavilion — SunShip: The Arc That Makes The Flood Possible entry by Arts Letters & Numbers, “Practise” Entry (Narrative, Videos, Colored Concrete and Plaster Cast from Charred Mold)

2020

RISD Museum of Art — Black Exhibit, “Repair” Entry (Concrete Cast from Charred Mold)

RISD Department of Architecture — Clashing Content_NATURE+BIM, Final Presentation Exhibition

RISD Woods Gerry Gallery — Thesis Final Thesis Reviews, Master of Architecture Final Exhibit + Thesis Presentation

2019

RISD Department of Architecture — Thesis Seminar, “Probe” (Structure of Pre-Colonial Cherokee Summer House)

Market Square, Providence, RI — Architectural Computation, “Merged Forms” Installation (Assembled CNC’d Epoxy Panels)

RISD Dean of Faculties Loft — Torpedo Lab, “1 + 1 = 3” Exhibition (Grouped Objects Juxtaposition)

2018

RISD Department of Architecture — Building a Digital Toolbox, Final Presentation Exhibition

RISD Department of Architecture — Architectural Analysis, “Corrugated Skylights” (Exploded Axonometric Technical Drawing)

2017

RISD Department of Architecture — Architectural Projection, “Sculpture Cup Shadow” (Soldered Copper Wire Anamorphic Projection)

RISD Department of Architecture — World Architecture History, “Anasazi Clif Palace” (Computer Modeled from Archeological Drawings)

Honors

Architect License — Board of Registration of Architects, Boston, MA 2022

Pat Tillman Scholar Award — Pat Tillman Foundation, Chicago, IL 2019

Army Commendation Medal — MAARNG, Ayer, MA 2019

Army Achievement Medal — MAARNG Combined Arms Exercise, Camp Edwards, MA 2018

Joe Gebbia Scholarship Award — RISD, Providence, RI 2017

Bronze Star Medal — Operation Iraqi Freedom, Camp Buehring, Kuwait 2010

Army Commendation Medal — Ft. Hood, TX 2010

Army Achievement Medal — Operation Enduring Freedom, Kandahar, Afghanistan 2006