Winners of the 2017 Written Architecture Competition Announced

On December 20, the final curating process for the first edition of the National Essay and Research Competition, Arquitectura Escrita 2017, took place at the national headquarters of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile.

Organized by Grupo Arquitectura Caliente and co-organized by Ediciones ARQ, the competition awarded the 20 best articles among the 87 proposals submitted in the undergraduate and graduate categories, representing 18 architecture schools across 9 different Chilean cities.

The competition was directed by Gabriela García de Cortázar and featured a jury of 30 prominent academics and professionals who formed the Evaluation Committee. All the articles will be published digitally soon and compiled into a book available for pre-order at this link.

The winners in each category are presented below.

Undergraduate Category

Winner

• Testimony and Scar of the City / Francisco Cardemil (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Honorable Mentions

• The City within the City / Renzo Marsino (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
• Urban Regeneration Through Art / Tomás Charles (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
• The Heterotopia of the Mall: Constructing the Experience / Renzo Marsino (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
• Babel: Hyperconnected Space / Renzo Marsino (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Featured

• Invisible Architecture / Nicole Cerda (Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago)
• The Body in Space: The Relationship Between Architecture and the Performing Arts / Tatiana Bravo (Universidad de Chile)
• The Architecture of the Invisible in Chilean Prisons / Diego Rodríguez (Universidad de Chile)
• Public Dining Hall in Matta Sur / Felipe Valdivia + Domingo Nieva (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
• Parametricism and the Socialization of Design: Reflections on the Social Practice of Architecture / Jesús Chuquipoma + Diego Lacazette (Universidad Central)

Graduate Category

Winner

• Alternative Methods in the Traditional Construction of Shipwrights in Southern Chile / Pablo Schmidt (Universidad de Chile)

Honorable Mentions

• City, Cinema, and Urban Memory: An Exploration into the Architectural Experience of Historic Santiago Through Its Urban Memory Recorded in Documentary Films / Nicole Trejo (Universidad de Chile)
• Desertification: Architectural Design Strategies for the Recovery of Degraded Agricultural Land in the Case of Til-Til / Isabel Donetch (Universidad de Chile)
• Replacement of Manuel Recabarren School—The Social Role of the Educational Facility / Cristóbal Pérez (Universidad Mayor Temuco)
• The Portrayal of Urban Marginality in Fiction Cinema: A Perspective on Santiago from 1967–2017 / María Fernanda Villalobos (Universidad de Chile)

Featured

• San Cristóbal: Modern Project. Its Role in the Development of Santiago During the Hygienist Reform 1917–1938 / Loreto Olivares (Universidad de Chile)
• Renovation of the Palais de Tokyo by Lacaton & Vassal: Changing to Endure / Benjamín Wilson (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
• Shelter for People Experiencing Homelessness / Alex Vivar (Universidad de La Serena)
• The Kaleidoscopic Illusion: Cultural Domination in the Aesthetic-Semiotic Discourse of the Social Imaginary of Architectural Heritage in Santiago, Chile (1951–2016) / Katherine Moya (Universidad de Chile)
• Territorial Vulnerability to Disasters and the Inhabitants' Response / Valentina Arqueros (Universidad de Valparaíso)

The competition was sponsored by Color Animal, Materia Arquitectura magazine, and Revista de Arquitectura; endorsed by the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile and the Comité de Arquitectos Jóvenes; and held in collaboration with Ciudad Atmosférica, Red de Estudiantes de Arquitectura, AriztíaLab, and Plataforma Arquitectura.

Listed alphabetically, the evaluation committee was composed of José Abásolo (Universidad Finis Terrae), Francisco Allard (Urbánica), Maximiano Atria (Universidad de Chile), Sergio Baeriswyl (Universidad del Bío-Bío), Tirza Barría (Universidad Austral de Chile), Rodrigo Booth (Universidad de Chile), Alejandra Bosch (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Eduardo Castillo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Alejandra Celedón (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Alejandra Cortés (Universidad de Chile), Felipe Corvalán (Universidad de Chile), Renato D’Alençon (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Pablo Fuentes (Ministry of Public Works), Paola Jirón (Universidad de Chile), Layla Jorquera (Youth Architects Committee of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile), Natalia Jorquera (Universidad de Chile), Claudio Magrini (Universidad Diego Portales), Luis Felipe Maureira (República Portátil), Gabriela Medrano (Universidad Andrés Bello), Pía Montealegre (Universidad Diego Portales), Vesna Obilinovic (Universidad Católica del Norte), Daniel Opazo (Universidad de Chile), Amarí Peliowski (Visual Archive of Santiago de Chile), José Rosas (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Diego Rossel (Universidad de Chile), Marcelo Ruiz (Metropolítica), Constanza Sateler (DUPLA Diseño Urbano y Planificación), Ricardo Tapia (Universidad de Chile), Germán Valenzuela (Universidad de Talca), and Cecilia Wolff (Universidad de Chile).