Renato D’Alençon Castrillón is an Architect graduated from the School of Architecture of the P. Universidad Católica de Chile, and M. Arch. graduated from Cornell University. He was awarded a Fulbright Grant from 2002 to 2004 to pursue his Master’s, and a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Grant to pursue a PhD Degree in the Technische Universität Berlin, starting 2009. He has taught Design Studios and Building Technology at the Universidad Católica de Chile in the areas of architectural design and building technology. He has been Guest Faculty at the University of Chile and the Technical University of Berlin, where he currently is appointed as lecturer and senior researcher and teaches design studios and research seminars.

His field of scholarly work includes environmental design and performance of buildings, area where he published the book "Acondicionamientos" (Ediciones ARQ, Santiago 2008) and several articles; the recovery and development of heritage building systems, an area which has published the book “Eingewanderte Baumeister” (DOM Publishers, Berlin 2013) and other publications product of his research in the field of construction history and of the project Reclaiming Heritage www.reclaimingheritage.org; and the habitability in social housing and informal settlements, area in which he has produced several publications and has worked as a consultant.

At the same time, he has practiced architecture since 1997 in D'Alençon - Plaza - Rosso Architects and later independently, with numerous works in various areas such as public facilities and has earned awards in national and international competitions. His built work has been published in professional and academic media.

His recent publications include : “NOMAD CITY: Ger Settlements in Ulaanbaatar” (Ed., Goethe Institut / DAZ Berlin, 2014); “Eingewanderte Baumeister: Architekturtransfer zwischen Deutschland und Chile” (DOM Publishers, Berlin 2013);  "Fachadas transparentes: sistemas activos y pasivos" (ARQ 84 Santiago, 2013); “Immigrant Master Builders: Architecture transfer between Germany and Chile 1852-1875” (In: Falser and Juneja (Eds.) Kulturerbe und Denkmalpflege transkulturell. Transcript Verlag:  2012).“Reclaiming Heritage Project: the Case of Chanco“ (de / design exchange, Summer 2011).