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Santiago Market / Pedro Guedes
Since Colony times globalization fantasies have been prowling around
Chile. Santiago Market building, designed and manufactured in Great
Britain, today is the object of anesthetized eyes, but at the time of
its completion was considered in Europe as a brilliant overseas model
of iron architecture.
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Chile
and the debate about shaping Modern architecture / Hugo
Mondragón
While the debate on Modern Movement developed in the middle of 20th
century, South America –especially Brazil– was a regular
subject for international press. At that time Chilean practice was often
seen as secondary; this article reviews local projects participating
in the discussion that architectural magazines motivated.
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Parking lots in downtown Santiago / Sara
Maestrello
As an opposite to the Invention of Chile, this photographic register
delivers a careful, unprejudiced vision of our reality from abroad:
periphery features unfold within downtown Santiago, as a result of urban
dynamics that combines consolidation and abandon processes.
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Open
City traces / Andreea
Mihalache
During the 80’s, the activity of the School of Valparaíso
was the main reference for foreigners on Chilean architecture. Related
by some critics to art movements and Californian sheltering experiences,
the expeditions named as Travesías act as their main connection
to the rest of America, being part of their inner motivation.
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The
city as school / Francisca
Benítez
How many possibilities do architects have for acting in the urban realm?
The experience of this Chilean woman in NY is far more than designing
buildings. It is all about developing a communicative code to start
a participative, engaged dialogue between architects and citizens: this
time, high school students speak.
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Chile: Truly, madly, deeply / Cristóbal
Palma
This selection on the work of a Chilean photographer shows current eagerness
of international architectural press. What do foreigners look for, or
what do they want to see from the remote Chile? Leaving stereotypes
and romantic visions aside, a careful reading reflects accurately the
state of local architecture practice.
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Park
of Colours / Alfonso
Gómez
A Chilean architect reviews this project by Enric Miralles revealing
some relevant, current topics of contemporary architecture: explicit
links with art, design’s social dimension and distant but converging
references, such as Michelangelo and urban graffiti.
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About
principles on architectural representation / Lorena
Valdivia
Far from being restrictive, distance from Chile to traditional cultural
centers has given to its architecture fortitude and courage. This peripheral
condition has resulted in attention to representation means and concerns
about the way architecture is learnt while being distant from its object
of study.
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Golden
Nugget, Graz, Austria / Innocad, 99 plus
As this project suggests, having lively historical districts has nothing
to do with its museumification. On the contrary, validity of urban heritage
also depends on its ability to incorporate new buildings as a response
to present lifestyles and demands of society.
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FARM
House, Silves, Portugal / Mauricio Pezo, Sofía von Ellrichshausen
A critical reading on vacation house models, hedonism culture and current
coastal town developments triggered the layout established in this project.
The pool moves from the backyard to the core of the house, within an
introverted scheme that protects domestic intimacy.
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Urban
voids, Philadelphia, USA / Jill
Desimini, Danilo Martic
Everybody
seems to agree about the importance of lively, open public spaces: now
authorities should embrace this aspiration. This project by a Chilean-American
partnership entered a landscape competition aiming to recover a series
of vacant lots in Philadelphia.
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New
city, Geum River, South Korea / Cristián Undurraga,
Pablo Allard
Finalist of an international competition, this project engages with
recent urbanism issues: garbage administration, water recycling and
transport efficiency are tackled from urban design, also defining how
new structures merge within existing lanscape.
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María
Cher Store, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Mathias Klotz,
Edgardo Minond
¿Are we talking about Chilean or Argentinean architecture? Growing
collaborations over the Andes make harder to define professional territories
and question the importance of “national” architecture.
Place relates to other topics, regarding specific, not generic conditions:
plot’s shape, current regulations and cultural demands.
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Judiciary
Center, Santiago, Chile / Cristián Boza, José
Macchi, Marcelo Vila, Adrián Sebastián, Javier Vila
Major changes to the judiciary have motivated the competition and late
construction of this building. Designed by both Chilean and Argentinean
studios, it is part of the Government plan for the Bicentennial celebrations
and it is one of its more significant projects. Its interior façades
are related to a large circulation space and to a natural ventilation
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Two
shorelines threshold , Hermenegildo, Brazil / Sylvia
Arriagada, Ricardo Lang
Since 1984 and till now, the School of Architecture and Design of the
Universidad Católica de Valparaíso has been making its
expeditions known as Travesías. Traveling embodies the importance
of territory for the School, as the trip becomes a powerful experience
of architecture, a way to understand space and an opportunity to design.
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Marbella
House, Puchuncaví, Chile / Rick Joy
Latest development of tourism and leisure culture has led to new forms
of urban management and land occupation. Resulting of those new processes,
Ochoalcubo project in Marbella comprises real state business, an exhibition
of architecture and a network to exchange ideas getting together architects
from Chile and abroad.
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Faculty
News
Rafael Moneo Doctor Scientiae et Honoris Causa
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