On Sunday, May 6, La Red TV will premiere “Chiloé,” a documentary series that explores how architecture connects with a unique way of viewing the world. The five half-hour episodes will feature documentary segments starring architects, carpenters, artisans, and residents, showcasing the diverse realities established there.
The book "Anales de Arquitectura 2017-2018" will be presented next Tuesday, November 6, at 7:00 PM in the FADEU Auditorium.
The Municipality of Santiago, the San Borja Neighborhood Association, and the Green Walkways Project are pleased to invite you to the launch of the Architecture and Landscape Ideas Competition for the San Borja Walkways and their surroundings.
The exhibition "The Place of Art: Iconic Architectural Works Dedicated to Art" will open on Thursday, June 7, at 7:30 PM at the MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Parque Forestal, Santiago, Chile, and will run until June 17.
The complex, multidisciplinary challenges of the 21st century demand professionals capable of understanding problems from multiple perspectives. At the same time, they must possess solid experience in integrating top-tier technical skills with a deep understanding of the economic, cultural, and social context of technologies.
A new commemoration of the 1939 earthquake will take place throughout the city on January 24. The meeting point is the Plaza de Armas at 9:00 PM, where registered attendees will receive a complimentary reflective backpack.
Following this, a heritage bicycle tour will visit significant sites associated with the event that changed the city forever. At each stop, an archival photograph showing the site at the time of the earthquake will be projected, accompanied by commentary from the guides. The bike tour will pass by the San Francisco Church, the Los Carmelitas Church, the Old Normal School, the San Juan de Dios Chapel, and the Market.
Biofabrication State aims to provide an overview of academic exercises on this subject conducted at the Universidad Católica and Columbia University. The event will consist of brief presentations by students from both universities and will feature a presentation by David Benjamin, an architect and professor at Columbia University's GSAPP.
Editorial Universitaria invites you to the launch of the urban history and ethnography book 'Voces de Lota: relatos de la ciudad del carbón' by researcher Dr. María Esperanza Rock Nuñez.
The Diploma in Urban Appraisals and Investment Analysis will take place between May and July 2018, offered by the Association of Appraiser Architects of Chile in conjunction with the Chilean Institute of Architects. The program provides all the fundamental tools for professionals to begin and pursue a career as an appraiser.
The team at Hamaca Arquitectura invites architecture students to the second season of their studio mentorship sessions. To participate, students must register for this initiative, which aims to improve undergraduate studio projects.
The 'From Villa to Cell' international workshop and symposium will be held at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile's Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies from April 2 to April 20. This workshop focuses on social and collective housing, understood not only as relevant to the city but as an inherently architectural problem. 'From Villa to Cell' will historically examine housing solutions in Santiago, Chile, contrasting them with international projects.
The project consists of a scientific event and a symposium involving Japanese and Chilean participants on a topic of mutual interest. Both Japan and Chile face significant natural disasters—such as climate change, earthquakes, and tsunamis—that profoundly impact their built environments, cities, urban planning, collective memory, and society. The project focuses on a specific case study: the 2010 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the Greater Concepción area.
CIELO FALSO is a transdisciplinary series organized by the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Construction at UDLA. It serves as a content platform centered around various guests from diverse disciplinary fields, including sound, graphic design, architecture, visual arts, poetry, and digital animation. This forum for debate, discussion, and conversation promotes and fosters future interdisciplinary intersections incubated within our academic space.
On Saturday, July 7, 2018, at 12:00 PM, a site visit will be held as part of the Architecture and Landscape Ideas Competition for the San Borja Walkways and Surroundings. The meeting point is at Plaza del Pedregal, next to the Unimarc supermarket located at the San Borja Walkways (Universidad Católica Metro station). The site visit is not mandatory for competition entry and is intended for teams that need to visit the site to develop their proposals.
The goal of this workshop is to introduce students to the world of e-textiles, or electronics integrated into textiles.
First RENAV (National Network of Volunteer Architects) Training Session: “Basic Concepts, Stages, and Tools for Emergency Management in Chile.”
The community is invited to the launch of the book Material Speculations: Materiality Exercises from the UTFSM Introduction to Architecture Workshop, presented by the core faculty team alongside guest architect Verónica Arcos.
The launch of the book ART-quitectura will take place on November 20th. This is the 14th work by architect Luis Alonso, founding partner of the firm Alonso, Balaguer y Arquitectos Asociados—one of the most international and prolific Spanish architecture firms today—in which he showcases 10 of his projects developed across different countries.