On Wednesday, June 6, at 3:15 PM, the official signing of the agreement that will launch the XXI Architecture and Urbanism Biennial 2019 will take place. After two editions in Valparaíso, the event returns to Santiago to be held in the heart of the Matadero Franklin neighborhood, a cultural hub emerging on the outskirts of the city center.
Arístides Benavente, president of Komax and Toteat, will deliver the lecture "Fundación Patagonia de Aysén," in which he will discuss his management efforts in developing the institution—which he founded and currently chairs—dedicated to contributing to the sustainable development of Patagonia through community-based tourism in the Cerro Castillo area.
On Thursday, September 13, at 7:00 PM, Cristián Donoso—one of the most prominent Chilean explorers today—will present the lecture "Exploring Climate Change in Patagonia," organized by the Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture.
Porcelanosa Grupo is bringing KEAST technology and its new product, Krion K-LIFE, to Chile—a solution designed to improve our quality of life and that of those around us.
On January 18, the exhibition "Architecture in Special Places" will be held at the historic house of the UC Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies. Sponsored by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Chilean-German League, the exhibition will showcase a selection of works and projects by Franco Stella, Max Dudler, Volker Staab, Arno Lederer, Michael Schumacher, Stefan Marte, Meinhard von Gerkan & Volkwin Marg, Gesine Weinmiller, Regine Leibinger, Daniel Libeskind, Stefan Behnisch, Nathalie de Vries, Peter & Gottfried Böhm, and Christoph Ingenhoven.
The launch of the book 'Dibujo y Proyecto' will take place on Thursday, June 21, at 6:30 PM in the FADEU Auditorium, presented by educator, researcher, and architect Germán Hidalgo.
On Friday, November 9, at 7:00 PM, the Fernando Castillo Velasco Auditorium will host the launch of the third ARQDOC of 2018, written by Thomas Weaver and published by Ediciones ARQ.
The Office of the Vice President for Outreach and Communications and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Chile invite you to the presentation of the book Idea Política Pública at the 38th Santiago International Book Fair (FILSA 2018).
Did you know that the conservation of natural and cultural resources is intrinsically linked to territorial development?
Beyond AI_ded Design:
Looking Forward, Looking Backward
Thirty years after its founding, SIGraDi and the University of Chile invite the academic, professional, and creative community to participate in the 30th international congress of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics, to be held in Santiago at the University of Chile from November 18 to 20, 2026.
This gathering marks a symbolic return to the University of Chile, which hosted SIGraDi 2006 two decades ago under the theme "The Human Factor." At that time, we invited participants to reflect critically on the role humans played in the emerging world of digital design. That critical look at the past—and the future—is more relevant than ever in the face of even more disruptive technologies.
In this spirit, we are proposing the concept of "AI_ded Design," a notion that updates the legacy of CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and projects it toward a new horizon where design, architecture, and urbanism are redefined by algorithmic structures, intelligent environments, and autonomous systems mediated by Artificial Intelligence.
We invite you to think beyond computer-aided design. We aim to open a space for discussion on a form of design where computation—increasingly transparent, ubiquitous, and autonomous—gives way to new forms of cognition, agency, emergence, distributed processes, and a necessary technological ethics that reconfigures design practices.
To stimulate this collective conversation, we propose four open questions:
What have we learned in these 30 years?
What have we improved in these 30 years?
What have we achieved in these 30 years?
What challenges are emerging in the relationship between humans, machines, and environments?
