Castro Abierto is an architecture, landscape, and heritage festival that aims to highlight local construction culture, its contemporary expressions, and the memories embedded in the urban and rural archipelago landscape of the Castro commune. This initiative is organized by Fundación Aldea and funded by the National Fondart, under its architecture festival category.
The exhibition by architect and academic Rubén Muñoz, titled "Light, Form, Act, and Symbol," presents a series of models alongside a catalog featuring three built works and three recent projects from his architectural practice. The exhibition seeks to enrich professional practice with reflections from the doctoral thesis that gives the exhibition its name.
Since 2016, the Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture has hosted Atraviesos Urbanos (Urban Traversals), a series of thematic tours through various sectors of the capital where an architect from the institution discusses the cultural, urban, and historical value of a neighborhood. For this new edition, the school has joined forces with Nuestro Centro, a neighborhood association dedicated to the revitalization of five neighborhoods: Bellas Artes, Bustamante, Lastarria, Plaza Italia, and Bellavista.
A conversation between architect Guillermo Acuña and master stonemason and historian Rolando Abarca will be part of a new session of "Diálogos Aislados" (Isolated Dialogues), a series organized by the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae. The series began during the pandemic to foster discussion on various topics, debates, and new ideas through multidisciplinary online dialogue.
In conjunction with the "The Life of Things" exhibition, organized by the School of Architecture in the Campus Creativo Hall, a series of meetings on circular design in architecture will be held from two perspectives. These sessions will take place during the exhibition on September 1st and 2nd at 12:00 PM in a hybrid format at the Universidad Andrés Bello Campus Creativo Television Studio.
The School of Architecture at the Universidad Andrés Bello’s Campus Creativo, across its Santiago and Viña del Mar campuses, is pleased to invite you to a two-part end-of-semester event featuring GRANDEZA Studio. The studio will host a lecture and subsequent discussion titled "Teatros Disidentes" on Thursday, November 24. Additionally, on Friday, November 25, the first Remote Residency will open with the exhibition "Mars Interruptus."
Fabián Barros, an architect, academic, and Ph.D. in Advanced Architectural Projects, will lead the upcoming Atravieso Urbano—a walking tour organized by the Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture in partnership with the Nuestro Centro association—which explores the cultural, urban, and historical significance of the neighborhood.
Organized by the Centro para la Arquitectura Constructo – AoA, this seminar features three lectures exploring the figure, theoretical contributions, and built work of Chilean architect Juan Borchers.
The workshop is designed for architects, engineers, designers, students, and/or academics who wish to learn about and explore the design, programming, and robotic execution of timber joinery. It will consist of two intensive days of hands-on work, covering everything from computational design to robotic timber fabrication. The workshop will be led by architect Francisco Quitral, with an introduction by architect Mauricio Vargas, MSc, both doctoral candidates at the University of Bío-Bío.
The launch of Materia Arquitectura 22: Aire will take place on Thursday, November 24, at 6:30 PM in the Patio de las Rosas at the Los Leones campus. The event will feature Pedro Ignacio Alonso, guest editor of this issue and head of the PhD program in Architecture and Urban Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Aiming to explore and transform abandoned architectural spaces through sound experimentation, the first edition of the "Resonant Spaces" (Espacios Resonantes) Architecture and Listening Festival will take place from Monday, November 14, to Saturday, November 26, featuring a variety of activities across the districts of Recoleta and Santiago.
Campus Creativo and the School of Architecture at the Viña del Mar campus, through the Construction 1: Materialization course led by Sebastián López and Nicolás Olguin, invite you to a series of lectures and discussions featuring various emerging Latin American architectural collectives.
The "Contemporary Housing Workshop" will take place on Thursday, December 15, at the Universidad del Bío-Bío's Concepción Campus. The event will be led by Dr. Bernardo Martín (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) and Dr. Jessica Fuentealba (Universidad del Bío-Bío).
On Wednesday, August 31, at 5:00 PM, Minister of Housing and Urbanism Carlos Montes Cisternas will present the "Housing Emergency Plan" during an outreach and discussion event at the National Headquarters (Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 115, Santiago).
The 16th edition of the international architecture seminar "From Territory to Detail" serves as a space for dialogue and reflection, bringing together students, academics, and professionals in the field alongside renowned Latin American architects. These practitioners share a common approach: balancing teaching with professional work across diverse areas, ranging from editorial projects to artistic experimentation.
The NGO La Reconquista Peatonal (LRP) seeks to highlight people's experiences in the city, particularly through walking. To this end, it collects walkers' experiences through mobile paper journals that individuals receive, complete, and return with observations, perceptions, and daily experiences in the city. This process has generated over a thousand journals containing diverse records and relevant information on the multiple relationships between people and their environments, highlighting subjective aspects often overlooked in the urban sphere, such as memory, identity, and affection.
On Wednesday, August 24, at 6:00 PM, the second event in the lecture series organized by the School of Architecture at the Universidad Andrés Bello's Campus Creativo will take place. The series is led by faculty members Claudia Woywood and Soledad Larraín, with the participation of the Valparaíso Zonal Delegation of the College of Architects and Espacio La Compañía, as part of the "City and Architecture" course.
The renowned architecture firm Rintala Eggertsson will present the most notable projects of their career, as well as their ongoing work in the town of Chimbarongo, Chile.