Sergio Palleroni

[citation needed] Palleroni was educated at the University of Oregon, where he received his Bachelors in Architecture, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his Masters of Science in History, Theory, and Criticism.

After obtaining his degree, Palleroni spent ten years working in Nicaragua, Mexico, and North Africa on projects sponsored by the United Nations and the World Bank.

In 1987, Palleroni and Vidella founded ADE (Accion y Dessarollo Ecologico), an NGO that grew out of the practices of Paolo Freire and Ivan Illych, with whom they collaborated through their outreach organization, CED.

Fieldwork studios were formalized as an independent organization in 1995, as the BASIC Initiative (a service-learning program) while Palleroni was an associate professor at the University of Washington College of Built Environments.

The outreach organization was founded in collaboration with David Riley, who, as of December 2023, runs the nonprofit Indigenized Energy Initiative based in Berkeley, California.