Tatiana Carbonell is a historian of architecture whose work intersects the history of landscape with the history of science and technologies through the study of infrastructures designed to mitigate catastrophes. Her doctoral research analyzed how knowledge produced around weather and climate catastrophes relied on engineering, traditional knowledge, and scientific practices that informed conceptualizations of climate in the nineteenth century. Extending this analytical framework, her current research examines the forms of climate knowledge produced by financial institutions during the twentieth century.

• 2021–2026
  Doctor of Science in History and Theory of Architecture Institute (gta), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH). Thesis awarded Highest Distinction.
  Advisors: Laurent Stalder, Debjani Bhattacharyya. Committee: Deborah Coen, Edward Eigen.
• 2015–2017
  Master Landscape Architecture, Magister en Arquitectura del Paisaje (MAPA), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). Thesis awarded Highest Distinction
• 2014
  Master Exchange Program, École Supérieure Nationale d’Architecture de Paris-Malaquais (ENSAPM)
• 2010–2015
  Bachelor Architecture, Escuela de Arquitectura (EARQ), PUC

• 2026–2031
  Postdoctoral Researcher, History Department, University of Zurich (UZH)
• 2024
  Lecturer at Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies. ETH Zurich
• 2021
  Lecturer at Barch Architecture, Diego Portales University (UDP)
• 2020–2021
  Lecturer at March Master Architecture (MARQ), PUC
• 2018–2021
  Lecturer at Barch Architecture, EARQ, PUC
• 2018
  Adjunct Instructor Barch Architecture, Andres Bello University (UNAB)
• 2016–2017
  Research and Teaching Assistant March MARQ, PUC

Scales of Disaster Risk Management, from Accident to Catastrophe

Insurance has long managed large losses by distributing risk, yet the expansion of reinsurance and hedging increasingly created new sites where those risks could accumulate. This research traces how risk accumulation became an object of knowledge and intervention after the postwar decades when growing concentrations and circulation of insured values prompted pools, excess-of-loss reinsurance, engineering surveys, meteorological observations, and transport records to identify how separate exposures could generate collective losses. From the 1970s, the management of natural catastrophes through scientific and computational expertise, hazard maps, accumulation zones, hypothetical scenarios, and catastrophe models increasingly brought environmental processes and insured values into a shared field of calculation. Following these practices reveals how reinsurance moved between accident and portfolio, site and territory, recorded loss and possible catastrophe, while the mechanisms designed to disperse risk simultaneously demanded new ways of making its concentrations visible.