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High
architecture: notes in the marginis / Horacio Torrent
Getting down to work / Patricio Mardones
Neither home nor decoration/ Romy Hecht
Three architects take a ride through Santiago searching for clues about
what ’s going on right now within our city and its built fabric.
Behaving just like private eyes, the first one reads newspapers, the
second walks the streets, the third reviews some pertinent books. The
result is a collection of images and words that tells us something about
the state of Architecture, no matter whether prêt- à- porter
or home- made or high- profile. Where and how can you find architecture
in this three different scenarios? The question assumes a degree of
certainty about its existance.
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The
architecture - architecture / Luis Valenzuela
The distinction between an architecture thought for the client and
another for the school and the academia becomes stronger,everyday. This
duality which registers apparent contradictions is embodied in each
young architect ’s experience of incursion into the real labour
market. The predominance of stereotypes and styles recorded as the client
’s desires and aspirations turns the architect into a performer,
one that learns to please and also to endure sacrifices.
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"Taxi
para tres", a film from Santiago
/ Orlando Lübbert
One of the main issues about this Chilean movie is its capacity to communicate
through its images the experience of living and breathing in a city
like Santiago. From his architectural background, Orlando Lübbert,
the movie director, looks at its main characters as they deal with a
less apparent one,the city itself the place where the action unfolds.
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Monday
evening, El Comendador/ Ernesto Rodríguez
A professor –who is not an architect- tells us about his teaching
experience in the Old House where the architects are raised. There,“...time
comes to a standstill; it delays the passing of events,and thus, because
of its stillness you can stay and dwell...”
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Art
for seers / Denise Lira e Isabel García
Situated in the environs of Santiago ’s airport, this straw house
was erected for a short period of time;an art installation that uses
concepts and elements from architecture outlining a relationship between
territory, perception and subjects in movement.
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Minimal
/ Pablo Rivera
The Minimal art project involved an indoor installation placed inside
an art gallery in Santiago, another outdoor structure located in front
of a Finnish museum and lately a construction placed in XXV Sao Paulo
Bienal. These works that apparently merely pursue formal games, relate
to architecture from the perspective of the social housing policies,
that shape, standardise, and serialise forms of life by virtue of the
minimum dwelling space.
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Hoffmann's
house / José Pablo Díaz y Rodrigo Vergara
Hoffmann ’s house is a mediagua –emergency housing –
that became an art gallery for emergent visual artists. This very shift
might be considered as an operation of some “folk ” way
of doing;as if a copy of a model, with spelling mistakes. Thus we can
speak about the presence of a Chilean Popular spirit: to be able to
make more with almost nothing (simply because there ’s no other
way).
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Even
normal / Manuel Corrada
As in a summer tale, Manuel Corrada makes us aware of the mismatch that
arises when an obsessive ideology of form establishes codes of good
taste on architecture giving importance to buildings that don ’t
necessarily have it whilst obscuring the basic needs of a city like
Santiago that seeks and yearns to be just a city.
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Structures
for densification / Diego Aguiló, Gonzalo Arteaga y Rodrigo Pedraza
Three thesis projects that move beyond the academic field in order to
achieve their goals:to promote, design and build houses within deprived
settlements, densifying these, therefore offering clever responses to
the dual problem of limitless urban expansion and scarcity of space.
By means of the insertion of three storey support structures, the strategy
allows several families to share a 9 x18 sq. meter lot while improving
the surrounding urban space.
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Typographical
Safari / Esther Engelmann
From her foreign point of view, the author has made a research about
traditional Chilean sign painters. Displaced progressively by digital
graphic media and cut and paste techniques, this craft fights in order
to survive: it is time to appreciate the value of these procedures and
their influence in Chilean popular graphics,before it is too late.
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Salty
layouts / Marcelo Sarovic
The salt marshes of Cáhuil conform a landscape shaped by a gulf
of sea water that penetrates several kilometres inland between two capes
because of a coastal depression. It is a productive landscape that stays
almost unaffected by change as from the colonial time thus bespeaking
of the transformation of the natural environment as an act of development.
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A
t rip to Finland / Ricardo Abuauad
The desire of visiting Aalto ’s work impels the author to go
to Finland.A country that can be considered a periphery inside the
periphery:from its situation “of border ” –that
is familiar for a Chilean –, with dismembered and undulant geography
and under the extreme brightness and darkness of polar latitudes,it
has originated an appropriate and reasonable architecture.
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Two
english interviews: Richard Sennett and Charles Correa / Antonio Lipthay
In this inteview, Richard Sennet speaks about the space relationships
of democracy. The public sphere, embodied as a space of visual communication
among people, and its natural environment the city, are characterised
by incompleteness; thereby the design policies wich operate on these
ough not to obliterate this condition.
From his sharp vision Charles Correa comments on the practice of architecture
and urban design in the context of a complex society such as India.
During the conversation, there appear topics that make crossing on characteristics
political and economic issues of third world cities, a world that clearly
reflects our global culture fissures.
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Proposal
for an abandoned water tower / Eugenia Gazmuri, Patricio Mardones y
Oyazu Wegener
Reclaiming an abandoned concrete structure of a monumental scale for
public uses, this thesis project establishes its own rules in order
to transfer the utilitarian structure into the public domain, struggling
this way with all the adjustments that are required in the transfer
of a scheme from the academia into the professional field.
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Containing
the uncontainable thing / Rodrigo Tisi y Dorita Hannah
Five architectural interventions called Containing the Uncontainable,
by Rodrigo Tisi and Dorita Hannah, outline a theoretical project that
looks towards the investigation on the concrete intersection between
Architecture and Performance, giving place to spaces for information;
the information as a control tool with the ability to manipulate the
perception we have of our space, extending the domains of the body.
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San
Marcos atelier - house
Marcelo Sarovic
VI Región, Chile, 2001.
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A
school of architecture addition
Glenda Kapstein
Antofagasta, Chile, 2001 |
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House
in Ocoa
Mario Carreño y Piera Sartori
V Región, Chile, 2001 |
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Resiter
Building
Juan Baixas y Enrique del Río
Santiago, Chile, 2001. |
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García
Rivera House
Cristián Valdés
Santiago, Chile, 2001 |
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Patricia
Ready gallery
Mauricio Léniz and Claudia Paublo
Santiago, Chile, 2001 |
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MAGAZINE ARQ 50 Evidences
on buildings in Santiago
