When Pinochet’s reign ended by the ’90s, a group of architects returned and began mixing the country’s legacy of modernism, art, and craftsmanship with a fresh sense of local identity. As a part of ...

In the last two decades, Chilean architecture has blossomed, with new designs blooming all over the country. Here is a look at works by some of the country’s most renowned designers.

After the interruption of the 2019 edition due to the Social crisis in Chile, the Chilean Architecture Biennial returned to Santiago in January 2023 under the theme of 'Vulnerable Habitats', ...

Immense and indomitable, the country’s dramatic topography and climate have produced unique and spectacular takes on Modernist architecture. By Michael Snyder Leer en español AT THE EDGE of Concepción ...

In February 2010, a magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck barely 60 miles from the architect Felipe Alarcón’s childhood home in Linares, a small city in Chile’s fertile central valley. Like many ...

Designed by Stanaćev Granados, this pavilion on the Chilean coast revisits local tradition through an architecture that blends into the landscape without disappearing into it.

The XX Chilean Architecture and Urbanism Biennial through its theme “Unpostponable Dialogues” invited academics, professionals, activists and the public sector from across the world to reflect on the ...

Bare concrete mightn't be the fanciest of finishings for a home, but with industrial conversions a growing trend around the world it has come to carry a certain simplistic charm. Chilean architecture ...

The earthquake in Haiti prompted a lot of architectural analysis of buildings there, and in megacities around the world. Without proper planning–and stricter building codes–most of the biggest cities ...

SOME people run into the street during an earthquake, but Rene Lagos would rather be indoors — preferably on the top floor of a skyscraper. The Chilean engineer crunched the numbers for some of the ...

One of Chile’s top architects said this week that architecture in both religious and civil structures should “point to the transcendent” and awaken in man “a more existential meaning of life.” ...

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that rattled Chile to its core earlier this year destroyed some 500,000 homes, setting off a tremendous rebuilding effort which officials estimate will take years to ...