The Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile is celebrating another anniversary with a series of free, entirely online activities. The milestone began on Tuesday, August 4, marking 78 years since the enactment of Law 7.211, which established the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile in 1942 during the administration of President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, and signaled the start of Architecture Month in Chile.
The First National Meeting on Architectural Initiation is an event designed to establish an unprecedented space for dialogue, aimed at exchanging diverse teaching experiences, building a national overview of current university-level architectural education, and proposing new collective challenges regarding the process of introducing students to the discipline.
A talk in which three National Architecture Award winners will reflect on their past, present, and future; the simultaneous premiere of three documentaries showcasing the life and work of two icons of Chilean architecture; and a panel discussion where a National Urbanism Award winner and a Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate will outline post-pandemic cities. These are the activities with which the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile will commemorate its 78th anniversary, free of charge and entirely online.
Session 3 of the series on supporting remote architecture education. This session will review online workshop experiences from three cities severely impacted by the health crisis, featuring Constanza Ipinza (USACH, Santiago), Carolina Rodas (UDLA, Quito), and Enrique Walker (Columbia, New York).
The School Competition is a tradition spanning over twenty years, serving as the primary activity that engages the entire student body around a specific theme, resulting in proposals approached through the lens of architecture.
On November 16, the University of Santiago de Chile (USACH) will award an honorary doctorate to architect and 2019 National Architecture Prize recipient Miguel Lawner Steiman, in recognition of his distinguished career and commitment to social housing.
"How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Way to Design" is part of the commemorative activities marking 50 years since the civil-military coup d'état in Chile. The exhibition focuses on the graphic and industrial design produced during the government of President Salvador Allende (1970–1973). It is co-produced by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Centro Cultural La Moneda (CCLM), with the collaboration of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation and the Goethe-Institut Chile. The exhibition will remain on view until January 28, 2024.
The Centro Cultural La Moneda invites you to explore Free Access: Contemporary Public Space in Latin America, an exhibition that examines the relationships between architecture, public space, and the city in Latin America through the presentation of various modern and contemporary projects.
The second edition of the "Premios MA 2023" seeks to promote and highlight the work of contemporary women architects in Chile, featuring two award categories: Emerging and Established. Both categories aim to identify and recognize architectural production in areas such as Housing, Public Architecture, Urbanism, Landscape, and others.
The exhibition "Between the Lines: Twenty Influential Voices in the History of Architecture in Chile" will be open to the public until Saturday, July 22, 2023. The exhibition is hosted at Barco Galería para la Arquitectura, located in downtown Santiago (Santa Lucía 382, 1C), and is part of the project "Between the Lines: Modern Female Architects in Chile and Their Disciplinary Contribution," funded by the 2022 National Fondart grant from the Ministry of Culture, Arts, and Heritage. The exhibition can be visited on Thursdays and Fridays from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM and on Saturdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
This Saturday, January 21, at 8:00 PM, a debate will take place between Pritzker Prize-winning architect Alejandro Aravena and Mauricio Soria, Mayor of Iquique, as part of the XXII Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism of Chile: 'Vulnerable Habitats.' The event will be held in the inflatable structure designed by Smiljan Radic and Nicolás Schmidt, currently located in Plaza Bulnes, Santiago.
Standing prominently on the Alameda in Santiago, Chile, is a giant that has undergone significant changes in both name and appearance over the past 50 years.
HOLDER is an initiative dedicated to highlighting contemporary Latin American design through its stories and creations. Founded in 2023 by designer Trinidad Davanzo and architect Camilo Palma, Holder Objects blurs the lines between an editorial platform, a design shop, and a gallery. Its constantly evolving catalog features a curated selection of furniture and artistic objects for everyday use, promoting prominent designers from Latin America.
Unlike previous editions, the Association of Architects of Chile has proposed that the 2018 National Congress of Architects return to Santiago with a broad and diverse call for participation, thereby becoming a genuine forum for reflection to analyze the crisis experienced in recent times and to identify the challenges facing our profession. Accordingly, the 25th National Congress of Architects, to be held on August 3rd and 4th, aims to foster a more active Association that is relevant to the public agenda and serves its members.
Given the structural shift in the housing deficit, the rise in shared households, the inability of a large portion of the population to acquire housing through the market, and the preference of families for well-located housing over better living conditions, it is necessary to move toward a complete reformulation of housing policies in Chile.
Drawing on the provocative question posed by Raymond Carver in his 1987 book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, the UTEM School of Architecture Week 2018 celebrates its 21st anniversary. The event seeks to critically examine what we understand by an architectural project and the many ways it can be approached from both academic and professional perspectives, framing a cross-disciplinary discussion throughout the week around the question: "What do we talk about when we talk about projects?"
