'Architecture as a Medium' will present the work carried out by architect Alfredo Thiermann over the last few years. Through the analysis of historical references and built projects, the lecture will delve into the relationship and intersection between architectural projects and other media, highlighting the importance of material culture in a world where everything seems to lean toward the virtual.
Awards Ceremony for the San Borja Footbridges Competition
The Municipality of Santiago, the San Borja Neighborhood Association, and the Pasarelas Verdes Project are pleased to invite you to the awards ceremony for the architectural and landscape ideas competition for the San Borja footbridges and their surroundings, held throughout 2018.
Since 2010, the School of Architecture at Universidad Mayor in Santiago has hosted an annual international workshop, inviting architecture schools from around the world to collaborate for nine days. In addition to the core work, related lectures are held, and the final results are presented to an external jury.
Attend the second edition of Architecture and Women in Chile, a panel discussion and reflection on the role and presence of women in national architecture.
The seventeenth edition of Materia Arquitectura magazine, an editorial project by the Faculty of Architecture and Art at Universidad San Sebastián directed by Mario Marchant, revolves around two fundamental instances in architectural production: the studio and the office. This issue, featuring Claudio Palavecino as guest editor, proposes an examination of these two central spaces through three dimensions: place, agents, and production.
The launch of the final ARQDOCS publication of 2018 will take place on Thursday, December 6, at 7:00 PM. The event will feature a keynote lecture by researcher, architect, and historian Beatriz Colomina at the FADEU Auditorium.
Researcher Rodrigo Contreras of the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS) will deliver this lecture as part of the "Architecture of Selection" series. Organized by the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae, the series will explore the theme of distance throughout the second semester of 2018.
Architecture, design, engineering, and innovation in wood take center stage at Wood Week 2018, where more than 100 projects from across Chile and Latin America will be presented to the jury. This showcase, which highlights wood in all its forms, will feature new regional ventures from Arica to Punta Arenas, as well as celebrate the work of female artisans who craft this noble material.
To share our recent experience presenting at the BILT Europe 2018 conference (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and to introduce the services we are providing to companies in Concepción, CTI will host a free talk titled "World-Class BIM in Concepción."
This discussion aims to create a space for proactive dialogue, featuring various guest speakers alongside students and the general public, to address pressing issues regarding the city's future challenges. We have invited four professionals who have led the coordination necessary to bring projects that foster social integration to fruition. The goal is for them to present each project as an example of urban best practice. Despite varying scales of intervention and diverse target users, these projects share a common thread: they serve as proactive contributions to the discussion on current and future urban challenges.
This discussion aims to foster a constructive dialogue, featuring presentations from various guest speakers alongside students and the general public, to address current issues and future challenges.
The launch of the 100th issue of ARQ magazine will take place on Friday, December 21, at 7:00 PM in the FADEU Auditorium. The event will feature commentary from Beatriz Bustos, Director of the Centro Cultural Palacio de la Moneda; Sebastián Gray, architect, columnist, and professor at the UC School of Architecture; and Cristóbal Molina, researcher and coordinator of the Architecture Department at the Ministry of Culture, Arts, and Heritage.
This course explores the possibilities of light as an expressive and artistic medium and as a way to intervene in specific spaces. We will begin with the theory of light and optics, move on to the origins of projections and modern spectacle, illusionism, and artistic intervention, and conclude with projection and mapping techniques, examining the latest global developments in this field.
A course on timber structural design, organized by the startup ELIGEMADERA and the IDIEM of the University of Chile. The course features prominent national experts in timber design. Several instructors participated in the most recent committee for the modification of current national regulations, while others are part of the team that developed C+T, the first software for timber structural calculation in Latin America.
Fourteen prominent international architects are featured in the exhibition currently on display at the UC Casona Lo Contador (Patio Los Naranjos). The exhibition draws inspiration from the Heidelberg Castle Architecture Forum, which has brought together approximately 600 architecture enthusiasts from Germany and around the world twice a year since 2011.
Featuring two talks on models that have driven societal change—spanning both urban development and technology—the Master’s in City, Anthropocene, and Built Environment at FAD U.Finis Terrae will host the "Models of Reality Transformation" event on Thursday, April 12, at 7:30 PM.