Claudio Vekstein (Buenos Aires, 1965) is a Full Professor and Head of the Architecture Program at The Design School, Arizona State University, where he has been teaching since 2002. In 2020, he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by the National University of Rosario, Faculty of Architecture, Planning, and Design, in Argentina.
He has held academic appointments as a Visiting Researcher at Aalto University in Finland and as a Visiting Professor at institutions across Argentina—including the National Universities of Rosario, Litoral–Santa Fe, Córdoba, and Buenos Aires, as well as Torcuato Di Tella University—and in Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, South Africa, Germany, Denmark, among others.
Vekstein is also founder and principal of oP—Opera Pūblica, a public architecture practice active in Latin America since 1995 and in Arizona, USA. His radical built works include the Memorial to the 100th Anniversary of the Alcorta Farmers’ Revolt and the Montessori School in Luján, the Memorial Square to Che Guevara and the Mill Cultural Factory in Santa Fe, the Forum for Arts and Sciences, Municipal Hospital ER, Institute for Disabled Rehabilitation, De la Cárcova Art Museum, River Coast Park, Amphitheater, and Monument to Amancio Williams, all in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
His work has received multiple honors, including the Baukunst Architecture Award (Stiftung Städelschule, Germany), S.ARCH Architecture Award (Hong Kong), ACSA Design Award (USA), National Built Patrimony Award (CICOP), Public Practices Award (International Architecture Biennale), Latin-American Hospital Architecture Award (AADAIH), Biennale Prize for Architecture and Urbanism (CAPBA), and the Vitruvio Award (National Fine Arts Museum), all in Argentina.
Vekstein’s work has been widely published and exhibited in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, United States, Canada, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Australia, South Africa, and South Korea, and was featured in three consecutive editions of the International Architecture Venice Biennale (2021, 2018, 2016).
He was the last disciple of master architect Amancio Williams. He earned his Master of Architecture from the Städelschule Architecture Class in Frankfurt, Germany, under Professors Enric Miralles and Peter Cook, and his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA), Argentina.