Alejandro Aravena ELEMENTAL   Chile   The Medical School of the Catholic University of Chile is north of the urban center of Santiago. In such a central location the context is denser than usual for this type of academic facility, so the project is designed in height, with three floors b

Alejandro Aravena ELEMENTAL   Chile   Quinta Monroy was, at least when the project was undertaken, the last informal settlement in the center of Iquique, a city in the Chilean desert, 1,500 kilometers north of Santiago. The poor living conditions favored its inclusion in a government pro

Teodoro Fernández Larrañaga Sebastián Hernández Silva   Chile   El colegio Calasanz, perteneciente a la orden de los Escolapios, está ubicado en la comuna de Ñuñoa, en Santiago, y ocupa una manzana completa con una extensión de 2,6 hectáreas de terreno. El nuevo edificio para el gimnasio y centro de medios confor

ELEMENTAL   Chile   The Faculty of Mathematics of the Catholic University of Santiago occupied two neutral and schematic structures of the 1970s and needed a new building for its administration department and for the faculty, without a predetermined location. The projec

Fernando Pérez Oyarzún   Since the year 1990, Children architecture has been receiving growing international attention. The wide publicity bestowed on the Chile Pavilion at the Universal Exposition of Seville in 1992 was among the initial signs of this phenomenon. The appear