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.
The launch of the book Schapira Eskenazi Arquitectos: Obra Cincuentenaria, edited by UMWELT and Ediciones ARQ, will take place next Friday, September 7, at 7:00 PM in the Fernando Castillo Velasco auditorium at the School of Architecture.
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.
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.
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.
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?"
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.
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.
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 Discrete Structures workshop aims to explore the development of 1:1 material organizations, constrained by the design of geometrically discrete components. During the activity, participants will be introduced to parametric design tools and digital fabrication. The four-day workshop will culminate in the construction of a timber installation on the final day.
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 School of Architecture at Universidad Mayor cordially invites you to the seminar "Emergency, Reconstruction, and Resilience," to be held on Thursday, November 22, from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM at the El Claustro Campus Auditorium, Av. Portugal 351, Santiago. The event is free with prior registration.
The goal of this workshop is to introduce students to the world of e-textiles, or electronics integrated into textiles.
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.
On Tuesday, August 28, the Museo de Artes Visuales (MAVI) will host the launch of ARQ magazine issue 99: Infrastructures, alongside the latest edition of the ARQDOCS series. The event will feature a keynote lecture by the author, Philip Ursprung, Chair of the Department of Architecture and Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at ETH Zurich.