Chile

In a context shaped by neoliberal policies, urban design in Santiago, Chile, has been progressively limited to private, internalized spaces. Specifically, through the shopping mall model, which, rather than serving as a suburban solution, has transformed into a vehicle for developing central, pre-equipped areas. Urban shopping malls are large-scale consumption artifacts that not only aggregate a significant amount of infrastructure, programs, and services to meet daily demands, but also represent a "real" opportunity to create urban spaces with a spatial and symbolic richness unavailable elsewhere in the city. However, this complexity comes at the expense of the urban experience. Housing, understood as the center of domesticity, has lost its fundamental relationship with the city and today is merely an isolated component of urban design, the result of an undifferentiated proliferation of housing units, buildings, and blocks that serve no function other than accommodation.

The School of Architecture at Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción campus, presents the first Architecture Guide of Greater Concepción. Volume 1: The Biobío River.

The new issue of Materia Arquitectura magazine, an editorial project by the Faculty of Architecture, Art, and Design at Universidad San Sebastián directed by Mario Marchant, centers on one of architecture's fundamental subjects: theory. This issue invites readers to reflect on the role of theory, arguing that architectural magazines are the space where it is put to the test.

We invite you to join us for the new edition of the Chile Arte Contemporáneo (Ch.ACO) fair, one of the most significant events in the country and South America, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.
The event will take place from November 23 to 26 in Vitacura, at the Parque Arboleda Lo Curro project by Inmobiliaria Paz, a building designed by the renowned architecture firm Izquierdo Lehman.
More than 6,000 square meters will host works from over 60 exhibitors representing 15 countries, including galleries from Chile, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, France, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and China. As in the last two years, the fair will be divided into four sections, three of which (Focus, Planta, and Nave de Ediciones) will be curated. Together, these sections will feature works by more than 300 national and international artists.
Furthermore, the initiative will feature various talks organized by the Fava Foundation and Paz Corp, designed to serve as a platform for visibility and interaction for the artists participating in the tenth edition of the Ch.ACO Fair, as well as to provide an introduction to public art and architecture. A highlight is the presentation by National Prize winner Luis Izquierdo, the architect of the project hosting the fair, which is scheduled for Saturday the 24th at 4:00 PM.
Parque Arboleda Lo Curro, the center of the exhibition, is a modern and avant-garde project built on thick pillars that rise across four hectares of green space. The placement of the buildings was specifically designed to house a large central park, developed by the prominent landscape architect Juan Grimm—a space that inspires and gives its name to this project.

On August 16 at 7:00 PM, Interdesign—located at Isidora Goyenechea 3200, Las Condes—will host the launch of the third installment of the ARQ Monografías series, dedicated to the work of Max Núñez, an architect and professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Lecture by Antonio Lipthay, co-founder of the firm Mobil Arquitectos, titled "Building and City: Projects 2010-2018," where he will present the firm's body of work.

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.

There are unavoidable issues in architectural practice. One of these is considering the "program" a project will have. Although it is almost always taken for granted, both the definition of the word and its impact on a project can lead to countless interpretations and variations. This edition of the Architectural Culture Lecture Series [CCCA] explores various practices and projects through this lens, aiming to reflect their overlooked complexity.

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On Tuesday, February 27, at 11:30 AM, JUNJI will present the book "469 New Kindergartens: Innovative Architecture for Quality Education" in the main hall of the Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda. From that day through Friday, March 2, a photography exhibition featuring 53 of these architectural works will also be on display.

The "Archivo Provisional" (Provisional Archive) exhibition initiates a research process centered on the Chilean Architecture and Urbanism Biennial. The exhibition aims to build a documentary body based on the architecture biennial—allowing it to be understood as a subject of historical research—and to share this documentation with both general and specialized audiences. It views the act of exhibiting as the construction of common goods for collective research into the intersection of architecture and the public sphere.

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.

You are invited to the launch of our new book, "Tribunales. Sobre una Teoría Moderna." This publication examines the Tribunales building, also known as Tucapel, based on work produced during the final cycle of Proyecto Móvil. Under the title "Tucapel," this initiative established a dialogue between the building and the artists invited to exhibit.

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 lecture offers an overview of the most significant works by the firm MOARQS, focusing on the concepts that inform its practice and its engagement with both the professional and academic worlds. The firm’s practice is rooted in a constructive approach that fosters an architecture free of preconceptions—one that emerges from the arrangement of specific materials in a particular order, combined with "art" to achieve an intense poetics through an economy of resources.

The book launch for 'Alberto Piwonka Ovalle: en el cruce de las ideas de la Modernidad en Chile' will take place on Thursday, August 9. The book will be discussed by Alfredo Jocelyn Holt, Fernando Pérez, and Luz María Williamson.

As part of the 4th edition of the Arq Film Fest, the exhibition "The Image of the Architect" will be held in the south corridor of the historic building, presented by Luis Miguel Arana—KLAUS, a special guest of the event.

As part of the "Arquitectura de Selección" lecture series—dedicated in this edition to extreme territories—the Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture will host José Pedro Montt, a member of the expedition that completed the first longitudinal crossing of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in the late 1990s.

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