Chile

The Master of Architecture program at the University of Chile invites you to the lecture "Is it Possible to Inhabit the Contemporary?", which will be delivered by Sergio Rojas.

The School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae hosts monthly "Atraviesos Urbanos," a series of thematic tours of Santiago. The October 6th edition will take place in the Barrio República.

Attend the seminar "Green Infrastructure in Chile: Progress and Challenges," organized by the Grupo Paisaje-FAU, U. de Chile, in collaboration with REEDUCA, U. de Chile – Urban Ecology Network, U. de Chile. This event is convened by STGO+ Green Infrastructure – Green Corridors – MINVU – Seremi MINVU.

The dream of homeownership is a cornerstone of Chilean housing policy; however, there are other ways to provide housing beyond those offered by the real estate market. These alternatives address the increasingly urgent need to tackle the scarcity of well-located land, as well as the social and spatial vulnerability of certain territories.

This event will feature international specialists with extensive experience in timber construction: Gianni Dal Ri, Technical Director of Bettega Legnami in Trento, Italy, and Federica Morandi, PhD in Applied Acoustics from the University of Bologna, alongside other national experts in the field.

The "From Territory to Detail" seminar is a space for academic dialogue and reflection that brings together students, academics, and professionals in the field alongside renowned Latin American architects who share a common trait: balancing teaching activities with professional practice across diverse areas, ranging from editorial work to artistic experimentation.
The seminar seeks to promote relevant practices in Latin America that, characterized by rigorous thought and practice, emerge as significant proposals that foster an inclusive approach focused on positioning innovation as a constituent element of a careful and pertinent creative process.

Iain Sinclair, author of Lights Out for the Territory, is the latest guest of the renowned "La Ciudad y las Palabras" (The City and the Words) project, a program under the PhD in Architecture and Urban Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, sponsored by La Tercera. The author will deliver a lecture on London on Thursday, November 8, at 6:30 PM in the UC School of Architecture auditorium (El Comendador 1936, Providencia).

Presentation of "The Memory of Surfaces" by Alan Chandler, a professor at the University of East London. This series is organized by Alberto Moletto and Cristóbal Tirado, professors at ARQ UC. The lecture will be held in English.

As part of the sustainable financing talk series by the ethical banking sector, the talk "Social Housing and Sustainable Cities" will be held on Wednesday, May 16, at 9 AM at the Doble Impacto offices, located at 727 Los Jesuitas, Providencia, Santiago, Chile.

We invite you to participate in the first National Meeting of Future Urbanists (ENUM), to be held on October 8 and 9 at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Chile. This meeting is organized by graduates of the Master of Urbanism program and sponsored by the Postgraduate Department and the Postgraduate School of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the same institution.

The Design Lab UAI curriculum places knowledge at the service of the community, identifying and solving concrete problems, generating applicable innovations, and ultimately contributing to societal development.

Based on this premise, Design Engineering was born—a program that encompasses extensive mastery of new technologies in digital fabrication, programming, electronics, design, and material evaluation.

The event, organized by the School of Architecture and the School of Law at Universidad Finis Terrae, will feature La Reina Mayor José Manuel Palacios among its guest speakers.

'Architecture as a Medium' will present the work carried out by architect Alfredo Thiermann over the last few years. Through the analysis of historical references and built projects, the lecture will delve into the relationship and intersection between architectural projects and other media, highlighting the importance of material culture in a world where everything seems to lean toward the virtual.

The Municipality of Santiago, the San Borja Neighborhood Association, and the Pasarelas Verdes Project are pleased to invite you to the awards ceremony for the architectural and landscape ideas competition for the San Borja footbridges and their surroundings, held throughout 2018.

Since 2010, the School of Architecture at Universidad Mayor in Santiago has hosted an annual international workshop, inviting architecture schools from around the world to collaborate for nine days. In addition to the core work, related lectures are held, and the final results are presented to an external jury.

The launch of 'Dibujo y Proyecto' by educator, researcher, and architect Germán Hidalgo will take place on June 28 at 6:30 PM in the FADEU Auditorium.

Attend the second edition of Architecture and Women in Chile, a panel discussion and reflection on the role and presence of women in national architecture.

The seventeenth edition of Materia Arquitectura magazine, an editorial project by the Faculty of Architecture and Art at Universidad San Sebastián directed by Mario Marchant, revolves around two fundamental instances in architectural production: the studio and the office. This issue, featuring Claudio Palavecino as guest editor, proposes an examination of these two central spaces through three dimensions: place, agents, and production.