Héctor Esrawe is a leading figure in contemporary furniture and interior design in Latin America. From his studio, Esrawe, based in Mexico City, he develops everything from furniture and objects to interiors, architecture, public space installations, and museography.
The Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile is celebrating another anniversary with a series of free, fully online events. 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 kicked off the Month of Architecture in Chile.
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.
This year, the 5th Aysén Architecture Week 2020 has chosen the theme "INHABITING MINIMAL SPACES IN AYSÉN: CONTRADICTIONS OF A RURBAN LANDSCAPE" to explore, viewing this topic as a provocation intended to spark a deeper discussion regarding the right of Aysén residents to a daily life that fosters health, fulfillment, and ensures their physical, psychological, and social development.
From August 27 to October 8, every Thursday at 7:00 PM, the "Women and Modern Architecture Series" will take place. This series aims to serve as a meeting space to examine the contributions of women to architecture, not only within the discipline itself but also through design, photography, and historiography.
The Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile is celebrating another anniversary with a series of free, entirely online events.
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.
This year, the way we inhabit our cities and homes has undergone a radical shift due to the pandemic. Diseases, plagues, wars, and catastrophes have forced us to reorganize our cities and create new systems and typologies. Similarly, this pandemic has prompted us to question how we work, study, rest, and inhabit. WAUM 2020 will reflect on potential scenarios through interventions that allow us to "repair the current city" based on three visions: the city of delights, the distributed city, and the healthy city. Each participating group, composed of students from different universities and guided by a faculty team, will adopt one of these three visions to propose an artifact, system, building, or structure that functions as a "repairing" prototype—one that is non-site-specific yet applicable to various situations.
This Wednesday, August 12, the talk "Urban Challenges Amid the Water Crisis" will be held, organized by the Technology and Sustainability and Energy Committees of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile.
Since May, the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae has been hosting the "Isolated Dialogues" conversation series, where professionals from various fields discuss art, music, design, architecture, and creative processes, among other topics, through the lens of confinement. Guests such as writer Rafael Gumucio, architect Cazú Zegers, and former Minister of Transport and Telecommunications Andrés Gómez-Lobo have participated in this experience.
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.
