Alejandro Saldarriaga Rubio is a Colombian designer born in Bogotá in 1995. He holds a master’s degree in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and has lived and worked in Denmark, Switzerland, and the United States. In 2020, he founded alsar-atelier, a studio born during the pandemic, focusing on adaptable, affordable, and resilient architecture. Since its founding, the practice has received wide recognition both locally and internationally. He has presented alsar-atelier’s work at Harvard GSD and Columbia GSAPP. In 2023, alsar-atelier was selected in Archdaily’s Best New Practices and published in Domus. In 2024, the studio received an Outstanding Project mention in the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize EMERGE Cycle 5.