Chile

Arístides Benavente, president of Komax and Toteat, will deliver the lecture "Fundación Patagonia de Aysén," in which he will discuss his management efforts in developing the institution—which he founded and currently chairs—dedicated to contributing to the sustainable development of Patagonia through community-based tourism in the Cerro Castillo area.

On Thursday, September 13, at 7:00 PM, Cristián Donoso—one of the most prominent Chilean explorers today—will present the lecture "Exploring Climate Change in Patagonia," organized by the Universidad Finis Terrae School of Architecture.

Porcelanosa Grupo is bringing KEAST technology and its new product, Krion K-LIFE, to Chile—a solution designed to improve our quality of life and that of those around us.

On January 18, the exhibition "Architecture in Special Places" will be held at the historic house of the UC Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies. Sponsored by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Chilean-German League, the exhibition will showcase a selection of works and projects by Franco Stella, Max Dudler, Volker Staab, Arno Lederer, Michael Schumacher, Stefan Marte, Meinhard von Gerkan & Volkwin Marg, Gesine Weinmiller, Regine Leibinger, Daniel Libeskind, Stefan Behnisch, Nathalie de Vries, Peter & Gottfried Böhm, and Christoph Ingenhoven.

The launch of the book 'Dibujo y Proyecto' will take place on Thursday, June 21, at 6:30 PM in the FADEU Auditorium, presented by educator, researcher, and architect Germán Hidalgo.

On Friday, November 9, at 7:00 PM, the Fernando Castillo Velasco Auditorium will host the launch of the third ARQDOC of 2018, written by Thomas Weaver and published by Ediciones ARQ.

5th Edition of the vertical gardens masterclass, focusing on vertical vegetable gardens.

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.

Santiago, January 5, 2018 – Chilean architect M. Pilar Pinchart presents an exhibition at Galería Pan Am showcasing the inquiries that have shaped her work over the last 10 years, synthesized into a conceptual installation on high-rise housing. The exhibition opens on January 11 and will remain on view for three weeks.

This seminar is positioned in the South, looking toward the South. It approaches the subject not only through the lens of architects but also through those of a biologist, a sculptor, and a documentarian. Together, they propose methodologies, approaches, processes, and discussions surrounding what is "available," while maintaining a global perspective. This allows us to discuss what it means to study architecture at a school in the southern part of the world, exploring concepts such as territory and landscape, material, precariousness, culture, craftsmanship, and remote locations, among others.

PROYECTO H documents the actions carried out by the Casagrande collective in 2013 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile.

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.

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.

Lecture by prominent Swiss architect Pascal Flammer as part of the second TES Workshop, which he will lead for the Master of Architecture program at UC. The lecture will be open to the public on October 11 at the Fernando Castillo Velazco auditorium. The final workshop presentation will take place on Friday, October 12, in the West Tunnel starting at 3:30 PM.