Master’s in architecture II, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Architecture degree, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Dennis Sola is an Ecuadorian architect who earned his architecture degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and holds a Master’s in architecture II from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
In 2017, he co-founded Idem, a practice that has developed residential, infrastructural, and cultural projects featured in national and international publications. Idem has been selected by public institutions to design significant public works and presented Casa Cíclope at the 2022 Buenos Aires International Architecture Biennial, a project that also received multiple nominations for Building of the Year on several platforms. The office’s work has engaged commissions from both public institutions and private clients, operating across a range of scales and contexts.
He has served as a guest critic at architecture schools across the Northeastern United States, including Wentworth Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and Northeastern University, and was a teaching assistant to Luis Callejas at Harvard GSD.
Sola’s practice brings together tectonic precision, building systems in relation to territories understood in their physical, cultural, and climatic dimensions, and the construction of narrative. His design approach embraces transformation, decay, and tectonics of the unfinished integrated within open systems of design, where traces of process, material imperfection, and environmental imprint are intentionally preserved. He explores programmatic experimentation, material expressiveness, and calibrated environments that are both pragmatically grounded and poetically resonant, crafting architecture in dialogue with territory, atmosphere, disciplinary continuities, and the human condition.
