Gabriel Vergara is an architect and urban designer. A graduate of the Architecture and Urban Design program at Columbia GSAPP, he currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at Columbia GSAPP and collaborates with the NYC-based architecture practice Means of Egress. Gabriel has also taught landscape and urban design studios at RISD in Rhode Island and at Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB) in Chile.

As a member of multidisciplinary design teams, Gabriel has collaborated with organizations in the U.S. and Latin America, including the Center for Justice Innovation in New York, the Art Museum of Ciudad Juárez (MACJ) in Mexico, and AriztiaLAB in Santiago. He has contributed to architecture and urban design firms such as One Architecture & Urbanism, working on coastal resiliency projects and the recent publication Building with Nature: Creating, Implementing, and Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions, as well as 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 featured in the Chilean Pavilion at the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2010. Current affiliation: Adjunct at Columbia GSAPP, Urban Design Program